WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Wolverine #11 by Benjamin Percy, Scot Eaton, JP Mayer, Matthew Wilson, and VC’s Cory Petit, on sale now.
Wolverine may be the busiest mutant on Krakoa. In a short amount of time, he’s been busy tracking the drug Pollen, played a vital role in X of Swords, and even saved his former teammate Maverick from being auctioned off.
Now, the ever-looming threat of vampires is slowly moving from the shadows, and Wolverine is the only hero that can stand in its way, as Wolverine #11 shows.
Much to the displeasure of Logan, Omega Red stepped through a portal to Krakoa back in Wolverine #1 by Percy and Viktor Bogdanovic. Red was granted amnesty by Magneto, but Wolverine knew something was up and was determined to prove Omega Red was still the same monster he has always been. He traveled to Paris, where Red was prior his arrival to Krakoa, and came face-to-face with the Vampire Nation.
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After Logan was briefly kidnapped by vampires, he learned that his blood was a highly valued commodity to the vampires, as it grants them the ability to survive in sunlight. Luckily, Wolverine is able to escape the bar with the help of a vampire hunter named Louise. Wolverine discovered that Omega Red was working with Dracula and the Vampire Nation, unbeknownst to the rest of the mutants. Red delivered Logan to the vampires in return for a Carbonadium Synthesizer, which made it possible for Red to survive without needing to drain the life force from others. Dracula implanted a detonator into the synthesizer in order to keep the deadly mutant under his control.
Wolverine would eventually be recaptured in Ontario by the vampires. The veteran hero was able to escape his imprisonment with the help of a group of teenage vampires and track his captors to a small town. While he is able to defeat these vampires, he discovers that they have been attacking towns in the surrounding areas and growing their ranks.
Since then, Logan has been tracking the vampires from small towns to major cities like Detroit and Chicago and destroying the vampire infestations in quiet neighborhoods and country backroads, seemingly on a one-man war against the undead.
In X-Force #15, by Percy and Joshua Cassara, the X-Men discovered and Omega Red’s secret alliance with the vampires. The X-Men were able to secretly replace the Russian mutant’s synthesizer with one of their own, and they tracked Red as he traveled to the Vampire Nation’s secret kingdom within Chernobyl, where Dracula explains that his primary goal is to gain more of Wolverine’s blood.
Wolverine is truly taking this war to the vampires. They continue to create truckloads of new vampires and then release them all around. Logan’s healing factor makes him impervious to the vampiric disease; he can not turn no matter how many times they bite him. This makes the fight his and his alone. If he were to subject any of the other mutants, they would be at risk of turning into vampires themselves. He has already lost his ally, Louise, to the disease when the vampires ambushed her during a meeting with her fellow hunters.
While Wolverine and the X-Men have had dealings with vampires before, Dracula has united the creatures as the Vampire Nation, providing them with an effective organization that they’ve often lacked.
Having seen the respect and power that the Krakoa’s mutants now wield within the Marvel Universe, Dracula is thirsty to achieve an equal status. And now, it’s clear that Dracula has something diabolical planned, and Logan’s blood is a central part of his design,
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