YMMV / Wolverine (2020)

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• Broken Base: Some exists from those who are tired of seeing Logan getting the solo spotlight so soon after Dawn of X began the new status quo and others who can't wait to see how the face of the franchise deals with living in a mutant society. The fact is that other than appearances in the massive rotating cast of X-Men, his only other starring role in the line is X-Force, lessening the usual Wolverine Publicity of having him on every other team book.
• Character Rerailment: For some who thought Logan was getting a bit too free-loving and community driven with the establishment of Krakoa, this series brings back his greater anti-authority tendencies and loner status in striking out to protect his new homeland "his way", as well as emphasizing that he's not entirely all-in on Krakoa and it's general attitude, mostly being involved for the sake of his loved ones while being fully ready to cut everyone's losses and split if things go pear-shaped.
• Funny Moments:
  • Logan gets Magneto stinkingly drunk, with the Master of Magnetism lamenting that they don't hang out together as friends often enough. Once Magneto passes out, Logan steals his psy-blocking helmet and threatens Blob into not telling anyone, which the bartender is more than happy to oblige.
    • Heightened in the following issue, where Logan is dragged in front of the Quiet Council and lectured for the duplicity. Logan doesn't see the problem, telling Magneto, "I got you drunk and stole your helmet. You ripped the adamantium from my bones. We're even." He even telepathically informs Xavier that he later used the helmet as "a piss bucket."
  • The Stinger for issue #5. Logan gets through slicing through a bunch of vampires before the Bifrost comes calling. Logan groans that he has things to do before he's drug off to the Fortnite event then dropped back a split second later, bloodied and even more angry.
• Ho Yay: Many read Logan and Maverick as exes in this book.
• Moral Event Horizon: After years of becoming worse and worse, Beast finally makes the jump to full on villain when he purposefully kills Logan in the field and then meddles in the resurrection process (lying to Hope and making her an unwitting accomplice that it's part of a harmless experiment that Logan consented to) all in order to turn Logan into a primitive-minded attack dog, one which Beast abuses horrifically and uses as an assassin, sending him out to murder Krakoa's political opponents; not supervillains or anti-mutant bigots, but normal people who dare to be nuisances to Krakoa, like a general who pushed for more heavy-handed treatment of Krakoa by the US government. There's no going back. Hank is now indistinguishable from Dark Beast. Or Dr. Cornelius and Professor Thornton for that matter.
• Nightmare Fuel: The Sabretooth War is advertised as “the most violent Wolverine story ever told”, and it more than delivers. The first issue of the series alone features Sabretooth and his Variants feasting on Quentin Quire’s corpse, as well as Fang getting violently dismembered by Sabretooth, who then uses his body parts to spell out “Happy Birthday”.

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