I was at the comic store and didn't have ANY comics that I'm following. I heard in passing though that one of my all-time favorite characters, Doop, was making reoccurring appearances at Wolverine's new mutant school as an adjunct teacher! I had to know more. The series is "Wolverine and the X-Men" and follows the little, canadian mutant as he has broken away from Cyclops's group on the island of Utopia out of philisophical differences. This series is only 11 issues long, so I decided to try to catch up! Unfortunately, this is a VERY popular series and back issues are scarce. Between 2 comic shops and 2 online stores, I have been able to get them all except for issues 3 and 10. The search continues.
Why do I love this title? It's fun. Wolverine wears dress clothes and teaches class to a hilarious group of mutant students. Beast has accidentally opened a portal to a dimension full of miniature Nightcrawler-type gremlins who are running amuck on campus and causing all kinds of havoc. The classic X-Men villain Krakoa, the living island, is now a mainstay on the campus and helps protect the grounds! Toad, the former evil mutant, is now serving as the disgruntled janitor! Kitty, Wolverine's original teen sidekick, is serving as his vice-principal! And DOOP is back!!! This title is fun, funny, clever, and the 2 rotating artists have been great. I love it when comics are actually fun to read and not all soap opera drama!
I don't have the energy to review all of the previous issues, so I'll just start with #11 and we'll go from there as new ones come out.
Wolverine and the X-Men #11
This issue gets tied up in the AvX blah blah blah that's going on across all the Avengers and X-books. The important thing is that this issue falls between AvX issues 4 and 5 when Wolverine is with Hope and they are trying to reach the moon so Hope can try to intercept and control the Phoenix and Wolverine can kill her if she can't. In the meantime, the Shi'ar Empire has sent out it's assassin group "Death Commandos" to kill the Phoenix host and any who try to protect her. Wolverine and Hope get attacked by the Commandos and barely come out alive, but during the fight Wolverine experiences flashbacks of when Jean asked him to kill her to save her from the Phoenix and he realizes that he can't kill Hope. He doesn't have it in him. When she's not looking, he contacts the Avengers to tell him where they are headed.
This was a filler issue that moved the AvX plot along, but the art was solid and there were some great character moments. Not bad all-in-all, but not amazing. This series as a whole is still awesome, so I'm not worried about it.
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