The "Ultimate Wolverine #1" is now available as it kicks off the first new ongoing title of the second year of the reborn Ultimate Universe. And as advertised, the new Ultimate Wolverine is also the Ultimate Winter Soldier, bearing that codename as a mindless weapon in service of the Maker's villainous cabal.
And like the mainstream Marvel Universe Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes, the Ultimate Wolverine version has a backstory that is rife with tragedy and the loss of old friends, combined with elements of Logan's classic Weapon X origins. But for the new Ultimate Wolverine, his time as Winter Soldier will come at an even greater personal cost than for Bucky.
Ultimate Wolverine #1 by writer Chris Condon, artist Allessandro Cappuccio, color artist Bryan Valenza, and letterer Cory Petit switches back and forth between showing just how the new Ultimate Wolverine was transformed into the Maker's Winter Soldier, and his latest bloodthirsty mission following up his first appearance in the recent Ultimate Universe: One Year In one-shot.
In a series of flashbacks, readers are shown a dying Logan being captured as the only survivor of a plane crash in the Eurasian Republic, one of the Maker's territories which is controlled by the Rasputins, Colossus and Magik, and their cohorts. As it turns out, the reason he survived is because of his vaunted healing factor, and what's more, he's part of the mutant resistance that fights against the Rasputins.
At the end of this first title, two popular X-Men characters will be brutally dispatched just as quickly as they are introduced, at the end of Wolverine's adamantium claws.
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