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Spider-Man & Wolverine # 2 (Fight to the Death!)

By Mark Rodriguez

Spider-Man and Wolverine team up to track down the Janus Directory, which contains files of every known spy mission ever, to keep it from falling into the wrong hands. While fighting off the combined forces of Kraven the Hunter, Omega Red and Mysterio, Peter decides to look into his parents' final mission as spies. The files revealed that Logan, working for the Red Skull at the time, was the one that killed his parents. Now Spider-Man is seeing red and is out to kill Wolverine in cold-blooded revenge!!

 

"Spider-Man VS Wolverine" opens with Spider-Man socking Wolverine across the face yelling out that he killed his parents. Wolverine tries to explain but Spider-Man hits him again. He yells out that he saw Wolverine kill his parents. As flashbacks pass that show Logan attacking the Parkers in an airplane, Peter says he's going to kill him.

 

Wolverine says he doesn't want to hurt Peter and says he can't trust what he saw after all the mind games the villains have used against them. Peter kicks him back and says he saw the recording from the plane from the Janus Directory, and Mysterio was out cold the whole time.

Peter punches Wolverine through a wall, and then uses his webs to pull him towards him for another punch, Scorpion style. The flashbacks show that Logan sabotaged the plane and left the Parkers without parachutes. As the plane heads towards a mountain, the last thing they said was that Peter will be OK with Ben and May. The next images show Logan reporting back to the Red Skull. For years Peter knew the Red Skull had his parents killed, but he never knew Logan was working with him.

 

Logan explains that he was working as a double agent. Spider-Man explains the database lists every known undercover operative except for him. He adds that he knows that Logan's healing factor would have helped him easily survive a plane crash. Wolverine says his memory of those days aren't reliable, but he knows he was a bad guy back then and did a lot of things he wasn't proud of. Spider-Man says what he saw was real and punches Wolverine into a fuel tank, causing it to explode. Wolverine stands up among the flames and finally pops his claws.

Growling like a savage beast out of his mind with a broken jaw, Wolverine wildly flails towards Spider-Man. Spider-Man tosses several web shots to hold him back as Wolverine hacks them out of the air. 

 

Spider-Man barely flips out of the way as Wolverine slices the back of his costume. Spider-Man uses his webs to keep from flying into a wall, but Wolverine tackles him. The berserker Wolverine uppercuts Spider-Man and then slams him to the ground. He grabs him by his now-torn costume and yanks him towards him.

Wolverine tosses him against a wall and Spider-Man ducks right before he can leap towards him. Wolverine plants his claws into a chunk of metal and smacks Spider-Man in the face with it. Peter lands on his feet. Wolverine pops his jaw into his place and snaps out of it. He tells Peter to stop. He says it can't be a coincidence that Peter saw that footage and whoever set this up wanted them both to come to blows. He says that Kraven mentioned he working for a group and not to fall in their hands.

Peter wants Logan to admit he didn't do it. Logan says he can't since his memories from back then can't be trusted. He only remembers a plane, a husband and wife, and the plane crashing. Spider-Man mutters that Wolverine really did do it.

Spider-Man yells in anger as he webs up Wolverine against a wall and starts wailing into him. Wolverine takes all the damage he can endure before finally losing his temper. He slices his way out of the webbing... and runs Spider-Man through with his claws.

 

My Thoughts- 

Wow, talk about all killer, no filler. The whole issue was pretty much a Spider-Man beat-down upon Wolverine, even among all the flashbacks of the video footage that he saw. 

A lot of comic book fans know that Spider-Man is always pulling his punches, so now completely lost in anger, he pretty much broke Wolverine's jaw. I am a bit confused how, considering he still has his adamantium skeleton which should include his skull and jawbone. Is Spider-Man really that strong when the training wheels come off?

Wolverine's memories (or lack of) make it hard for him to confirm or deny those events. He's not lying, he literally does not remember. It was left somewhat open ended. For all we know maybe we'll find out that SHIELD sent Logan to intercept some other assassin sent by Red Skull and things went South with the plane still crashing. The one that doesn't make sense when Logan was trying to rationalize that it was a set up, is the fact that whoever did this would have have to known that Wolverine would have brought Spider-Man along, that Peter Parker is Spider-Man and that Peter would have just so happen to be curious enough to look up his parents' deaths. I mean, does Mysterio know Spider-Man is Peter Parker?

There's not much else to add except the art is insane, dramatic and fast-paced as both of them went all out at different stages of the fight. The real question is how will Spider-Man survive getting impaled like this since he doesn't have a healing factor.

While I am very curious to see how Spider-Man survives this, it does kinda kill the vibe knowing that he's already co-starring in Gwenpool's latest book (which ironically also kills off Gwendolyn Poole!) as well as the rest of Spider-Man's main series. 

 


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