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The narrative structure of this issue is cool: In a flashback, Logan and Cap rescue Natasha–who was kidnapped by Baron Strucker.
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She’s a little girl in this past story, and Logan learns about the kidnapping at a bar.
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…while in the present day, Widow and Wolverine, along with Psylocke and Jubilee, fight The Hand and Andrea and Andreas Strucker.
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Good story, but more suitable for the Wolverine comic than X-Men.
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Widow being the captured damsel in distress in both the past and present narratives is a little tiresome. Other that that, it’s a very good read.
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In the flashbacks, we get the first appearance of the bar-owning little person Seraph, who will later be revealed as an instrumental player in training Wolverine as a killer.
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