This story takes place in current continuity, at a time when Bruce Banner believed he was cured of becoming Hulk.  (Note that nobody else believed that.)  Also at this time, Bruce was hanging out with his son, Skaar.  So this story gives us an excuse to see Wolverine take on the son of Hulk.  What’s a little baffling to me is that this series, which is extremely derivative and unoriginal, fails to have a cover paying tribute to Wolverine’s first appearance–where he fought Hulk.

Skaar leaves Logan impaled on a tree, but Bruce comes back for him later and they bond over the fact that both of their sons want to kill them.  Logan uses that to convince Skaar and Bruce to help him take down Romulus.  If that doesn’t make sense to you, don’t worry.  It’s not a “you” problem.  The rationale for their support is thin.  Logan then recruits others.  Cloak agrees to help if Logan will free Dagger, who has conveniently been kidnapped by Victor Hudson. 

Silver Samurai teaches Logan how to use the Blade Muramasa, which can kill Romulus, and Logan uses it first to kill Hudson. But we don’t get to see it. We just see some blood coming from off-panel, with a sound effect, and then Wolverine standing over his body.

Logan’s band then busts Ruby Thursday out of the Raft prison.

Ruby’s a double-crosser, but Wolverine knew that she would sell them out to Romulus and this was part of his plan. 

Actually, not Wolverine’s plan–Deadpool’s plan.  He appears on the last page of this story.

This story feels random.  I was sure it was an “assemble the band” story arc, but in the end we have Wolverine now knowing “what he needs to know” to defeat Romulus, but I for one am not clear what exactly that is–other than Silver Samurai’s Murasama blade.

I’m really hoping that the next story arc will be the end of this interminable Romulus “epic.” The art is good, but the plotting and characterizations are so generic here.