A new trailer for X Lives of Wolverine and X Deaths of Wolverine tease Logan’s grandest adventure ever and also establishes the mutant’s intricate relationship with time.
Released by Marvel Comics, the trailer hints at Wolverine’s journey through time and space, showing glimpses of the myriad lives of Logan — from his first appearance as an agent of the Canadian government in 1974’s The Incredible Hulk #180 to his adventures in Japan, as chronicled by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller in Wolverine’s self-titled 1982 series. A voiceover in the trailer hints at Wolverine’s thoughts about the many years he has lived, arguing that digital clocks make no sense to him, since mechanical watches “lets you see the possibility of all time — that’s the truth I know from more than a century of living.”
Originally teased in September as Marvel celebrated its 82nd birthday, X Lives of Wolverine and X Deaths of Wolverine sees Logan taking this thought about “the possibility of all time” literally. Wolverine travels through his own timeline in order to tackle an impending danger to the X-Men, and the covers for the first two issues of X Deaths of Wolverine show what may be the main threat of the series — a tech grid reminiscent of the Transmode virus, which had the power to turn all organic lifeforms into technology-laced creatures. The Transmode virus originally appeared in 1984, during Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz’s New Mutants run.
X Lives of Wolverine and X Deaths of Wolverine will both run for five issues and tell an interweaving storyline that will release on alternating weeks. Both books are written by Benjamin Percy, with Joshua Cassara penciling X Lives of Wolverine and Federico Vicentini penciling X Deaths of Wolverine. The titles have been promoted as kickstarting the Second Krakoan Age for the X-Men, following writer Jonathan Hickman’s seminal House of X and Powers of X storylines, which were both published in 2019.
Percy has gone on record calling the epic “the greatest Wolverine story ever told,” and “a definitive platform that channels all the Wolverine stories that came before while shredding our way into a wild future.” He said, “I’m not trying to belittle previous creators when I say that. The opposite. I’m trying to honor them. When we reveal the expansive scope — and legacy elements — of the project, you’ll understand what I mean.”
X Lives of Wolverine #1 goes on sale Jan. 19, while X Deaths of Wolverine #1 goes on sale Jan. 26.
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