First Look: DEATH OF WOLVERINE #3

DEATH OF WOLVERINE #2 is in stores today. Marvel has released a preview for issue #3. Kitty and Logan are returning to Japan. Remember that time they were there and Kitty impaled him with a sword? Good times.

It’s the story that has the whole world talking, and today Marvel is proud to reveal your first look inside DEATH OF WOLVERINE #3 – the penultimate chapter in the blockbuster four-issue event kicking off this week! Experience the end of an era as superstar creators Charles Soule & Steve McNiven take Kitty Pryde and Wolverine back to Japan for one last adventure.

Bruised and beaten from his last battle, the once indestructible killing machine returns to his wandering samurai roots as he ventures back to the Japan with Kitty Pryde in tow. Only not all is as it seems in the Land of the Rising Sun. With no greater opportunity than the present an old foe emerges, ready to end the Wolverine. Ogun has returned, prepared for his revenge. Yet in the shadows moves an even deadlier threat pulling the strings. Who is behind the bounty on Wolverine’s head?

Each issue of Death of Wolverine is oversized and features stunning Weapon Etched Holo Foil cover treatment. Exclusively crafted for this series, each foil-wrapped issue of Death of Wolverine is poised to leap off comic shop shelves come September!

Time is running out for the Wolverine. The epic end of the world’s most famous X-Man is upon us, and no fan can afford to miss out on the spectacular DEATH OF WOLVERINE #3 when it hits comic shops and digital devices in October!

DEATH OF WOLVERINE #3 (JUN140602)

Written by CHARLES SOULE

Art & Cover by STEVE MCNIVEN

Canada Variant by STEVE MCNIVEN (MAY148258)

Variant Cover by ORLANDO SANTIAGO

On-Sale – 10/01/2014

That last cover is beautiful.

Wow I love that concept art/cover art at the bottom. Really creative and pretty.

As for the comics, I have yet to buy them.

Totally love the artwork at the bottom panel.

Kill this guy already!

that first panel sure is pretty

SOHH Punisher (for instance) is just a regular guy who has gone up against al ins of superhumans including freaking Sentry (and Wolvie) and lived just fine but Wolverine loses his healing factor and suddenly he's as fragile as an egg. Makes Wolvie seem like kind of a wimp. Hawkeye is still running around fer Chrissakes.

@edblank: you obviously aren't reading the comics then. They are actually making him rely on his fighting skills and not his mutant powers. And if you take away punisher's / hawkeye's long range attacks and put them up against the guys wolverine fights hand to hand i don't think they would last so long. You should check it out, the comics they are pretty fun so far!

Really nice art.

SOme beautiful art.

You know what I just realized that kind of scares me? The last time Marvel used the title "The Death of ___" it was "The Death of Captain Marvel" and he never came back... maybe this really is the end for Wolverine.

You know I used to not like Steve McNiven's art once a upon a time. His work on Civil War was ok. But I couldn't stand Old Man Logan. Maybe due to the fact it was a what if fan fic story. And Mark Millar fan fic at that :/ But this looks beautiful. I can't wait to pick this up when it's collected in hardback.

Very true. First time in a long time I say he's back to form. Wolverine is absolute beast in this series. Beating the bajeezus out of folks with his bare hands. And outsmarting them all to boot.

Dude sits himself on an island with an open invitation to all assassins to come and get him. Next panel opens to said island literally littered with corpses of spec. ops, ninjas, mercenaries - you name it - and Wolverine sitting, waiting for more hapless schmucks.

Though I definitely get what @edblank was saying. And it makes perfect sense while Wolverine was penned under Cornell. But under the current creative team, it no longer bothers.

That, and Hawkeye hasn't pissed off as many baddies on such a large scale as Logan has (the whole criminal empire of an entire city has been decimated time and again by Logan), and hasn't made himself nearly as big a threat (because he isn't one). As for Frank, he works covertly for just that reason, and mostly keeps to himself. He's not a public figure like Logan is. His shield lies in the fact he lives a covert life and lives in the shadows.

Good read. Highly recommend it thus far.

I'm waiting to see how all four issues pan out and then perhaps I'll get it. But one thing is true, that last cover is absolutely gorgeous!

@edblank: the punisher got beat down by the sentry and only survived because he ran away.

I'll be back, bub.

Freaking awesome read thus far.

i can't wait C:

they never do him justice always claws out first , no sword or fighting skills nothing but hack and slash Logan and that is kind of lame.

In issue 1 and 2 two he used nothing but martial arts and didn't pop his claws at all... And there is nothing in these images that would imply he's going to pop them in 3.

@teerack: wow may have to read this if that is the case.

I prefer the idea of a smarter fighter not a hack and slash.

He lived a long time and has learned so much you would think he would keep the claws as his ace in the hole.

I will say the art work is awesome.

O God! You're really lighted my day *_* thank you for giving me this great hope! *__*

@wolverine08: Really?

The art is lovely but as for the story...it does not really grab me. In fact I am not too keen on it. Everything that makes him Wolverine is absent, even resisting using his claws. As such it is to me like reading a comic about Clark Kent...with no Superman. I am hopeful it will change. But I could be wrong.

Wow. Once again, Steve McNiven's art is beautiful.

THAT ART!

Yeah, you really need to try this book out. It would be a shame to miss out on a book that is just out of this world good.

The art reminds me why I love comics so much. At the very least, the art in this issue impresses.