
Wolverine #1 | Someone Incredibly Powerful Wants Wolverine’s Blood!
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00:00 what is up Earth's Mightiest subscribers 00:04 it's Ernie Blerd Without Fear welcome 00:07 back to the channel so today's video 00:10 we're gonna be talking about wolverine 00:11 number one by benjamin percy Victor 00:15 Bogdanovich and Andy Kubert and while we 00:18 do that we're gonna address a couple of 00:20 things largely in regards to what 00:23 happens when the curcumin flowers that 00:26 have been the lifeblood now of you the 00:29 mutant economy what happens when someone 00:33 takes those very same drugs are being 00:35 used for good and then turns them into a 00:38 dangerous narcotic more importantly 00:41 we're finally gonna kind of see the ugly 00:44 side of the order of X a group of humans 00:47 who worship mutants what happens when 00:51 you see the seedy underbelly of a group 00:53 like that and also we're gonna find out 00:55 exactly why a certain powerful being in 01:00 the Marvel Universe wants Wolverines 01:03 blood we're gonna talk about all that 01:05 and more right now but first let's is 01:08 that intro for the wise grass on the 01:11 agree no one is fertilized 01:13 chief any songs they prefer to lies 01:15 that's any beautiful a trip then have 01:17 purple eyes you can't see me you Steve 01:19 be wonderin how bout preach smart ever 01:21 loses that won't be before we get 01:24 started if you want to see more awesome 01:26 comic book videos like this winged it 01:27 only takes two clicks to become one of 01:29 Earth's Mightiest subscribers click 01:31 click and I'm going to write now this 01:34 book is well over sixty pages worth of 01:36 content and it's there's a lot it's a 01:38 tale of two different Wolverine stories 01:40 and that's not a bad thing it's just 01:42 yeah man it's a lot in the first half of 01:44 this comic we're mostly dealing with 01:46 equal cowan drugs being perverted into 01:49 becoming something more of a narcotic 01:53 called pollen it is something that's 01:55 being distributed by the flower cartel 01:57 now originally when I saw this 01:58 originally the thing I started thinking 02:00 about immediately was oh this must be a 02:01 tie back to a horde culture which I want 02:04 to say they debuted an x-men number 02:05 three when Don of X kicked off but 02:07 that's actually not the case this seems 02:09 to be completely unrelated and this 02:11 flower cartel they're basically coming 02:13 into territories and muscling out any 02:16 competition shutting them down or 02:17 absorbing them and there seems to be one 02:19 common denominator amongst event and 02:21 that's a figure by the name of the pale 02:23 girl who seems to in some way shape form 02:25 or fashion at least be telepathic 02:27 because she does seem to be able to make 02:29 people do things that they don't want to 02:32 do not only is that going on right now 02:34 but we also have a new character by the 02:36 name of Jeff banister a guy who's kind 02:38 of a narco style cop he's going after 02:41 this this flower cartel and it just so 02:43 happens that he doesn't really seem to 02:44 be overly fond of mutants but he needs 02:47 Luger Cohen flowers because his child is 02:49 ill and she needs these drugs in order 02:52 to get better his daughter while dying 02:55 of leukemia and waiting on these new 02:57 drugs that are supposed to save her life 02:58 things kind of get gummed up in the 03:00 works when the drug start falling in a 03:02 short supply 03:03 people can't get their hands on them and 03:05 this is coming from a place where the 03:07 drugs are being not just manufactured 03:09 you know Carcosa they're being 03:10 manufactured on Mars in the Savage Land 03:13 reason whole shipments are winding up 03:15 missing maybe a quarter of a shipment 03:17 here a third of a shipment there a half 03:19 of a shipment here and a whole boat 03:21 there something is going on right now 03:23 and no one knows what it is even sage 03:25 can't really pinpoint it and what it's 03:28 kind of seeming like it's boiling down 03:29 to here is it Wolverine he is being sent 03:32 out to try and track this down and all 03:34 roads wind up pointing to Russia and 03:36 when they get to Russia they discover 03:37 that this order of X is operating in 03:40 some really shady ways while the order 03:43 of X has no like exact hierarchy they 03:45 have no you know structure of anything 03:48 to speak of they're all kind of just 03:49 this ragtag band of people who worship 03:51 mutants but we start to learn that 03:53 apparently there are some sects of order 03:56 of X who worship mutants so much that 03:58 they are willing to offer their own 04:00 bodies women are willing to give their 04:03 wombs over to house the next mutant 04:05 birth there are men out there willing to 04:07 give their seed in hopes that they will 04:10 birth a mutant child where we live in a 04:12 world where everybody wants every man 04:13 wants a son every mother wants a 04:15 daughter these particular humans they 04:17 just want to birth a mutant because it 04:20 makes them feel like they're that much 04:21 closer to godhood even worse is that 04:25 yeah we know these people go crazy here 04:27 they go gaga for memes we've seen this 04:29 over the course of the last you know 04:31 dozen or so Donna Beck's you know issues 04:33 for me across multiple titles but we 04:36 also learned that apparently there are 04:37 even other groups who think that 04:40 sacrificing and consuming the flesh of a 04:43 mutant will make them become a mutant 04:46 couple that with the fact that there's 04:47 this new drug on the street pollen that 04:49 makes people feel like they're twice as 04:50 smart as they actually are twice as 04:52 strong as they actually are and it's not 04:55 hard to believe that some of these 04:56 people from order of X are crazier than 04:59 cat shit if that weren't enough when 05:01 Wolverine takes his x-force squad which 05:03 also want to point out I actually think 05:04 it's really interesting that in x-force 05:06 which did remember see of course also 05:08 writes Domino is still missing half of 05:10 her skin but in this she seems perfectly 05:11 fine so I don't know what 05:13 I'm line is here anyways that's not 05:15 important what is important here is that 05:16 Wolverine and the rest of X Poor's pull 05:18 up on the order of X things go bad 05:20 because they try to sacrifice kid Omega 05:23 well before any of this can happen 05:24 before even kid Omega and his brashness 05:27 can kill every single human that just 05:29 literally tried to eat him come to find 05:31 out the drug Pollan already did the job 05:34 for them and what makes things even 05:36 trickier here is the fact at the 05:37 beginning of this book we see the 05:38 Wolverine has killed all of his 05:40 teammates he's killed Domino 05:42 he's killed kid Omega and of course he's 05:45 also killed Jean and he doesn't even 05:46 know why he has no clue what was going 05:48 on and all we know is that he's left 05:51 wandering in the cold wilderness of 05:53 Alaska pondering what could have 05:55 possibly happened and the only thing he 05:57 keeps seeing is the pale girl but before 06:00 we can even figure out what's going on 06:02 there this is when he runs afoul of Jeff 06:05 banister who's working undercover to try 06:07 and procure these quick Owen flowers so 06:09 that he can build a case because he 06:11 thinks this black market of cocoa and 06:13 flowers and this narcotic he thinks that 06:16 they're the root of it and who knows 06:17 Sebastian Shaw is very much involved 06:19 with a lot of what's going on the shady 06:21 side of you know krakoa so considering 06:23 what he's doing selling drugs to the 06:25 vendee this wouldn't be much of a 06:27 stretch not only that this book does 06:28 have a second story and I'm not gonna 06:30 spend a whole heap of a lot of time on 06:31 this one because it's really easy to sum 06:33 up its the fact that Omega Red has come 06:35 to the island and he wants amnesty but 06:39 Wolverine having history with Omega Red 06:41 he ain't here for it but magneto does 06:43 bring up a very interesting point that 06:44 yes at one point in time and maybe even 06:47 right now the same thing you're thinking 06:49 about Omega Red people still think about 06:51 magneto green now grander megared is a 06:55 much worse case because I mean he is for 06:57 all intents and purposes 06:58 yeah he's literally a walking death 07:00 machine well the thing is that omega red 07:02 comes to Gore Khoa covered in blood not 07:04 Argus victims on his own and the day 07:07 that he came from leads back to France 07:09 and there's something on the other side 07:10 of that gate that even he don't want no 07:14 now all roads point back to him of 07:16 course they do 07:17 Wolverine keeps digging he even keeps 07:19 coming back and asking Omega Red what's 07:22 the deal and Omega Red he's trying to 07:24 convince them that maybe just maybe he 07:26 may have changed even talks about the 07:27 fact that you know Omega Red 07:29 he has to consume life in order to 07:32 maintain himself the death pheromones 07:34 that are a major part of his powers if 07:37 he doesn't consume life he's toast he's 07:39 been feeding on animals and you know 07:42 maybe even occasionally the random dog 07:44 but he's been trying to find ways to get 07:46 away from killing humans and he's hoping 07:48 that krakoa can give him what he needs 07:50 so where he doesn't have to kill 07:52 innocent people or you know so he claims 07:55 well when Wolverine does a little bit 07:56 more digging into where Omega Red came 07:59 from when he went through that gate he 08:00 ends up discovering a whole ass coven of 08:03 vampires vampires who do manage to get 08:07 the drop on Wolverine but of course 08:09 because of his healing factor he can 08:10 only stay knocked out for so long before 08:13 he wakes up and begins running fades on 08:15 every vampire in his presence because 08:17 even if they bite him he's not gonna 08:19 turn his healing factor is just that 08:21 strong it would destroy the enzymes 08:23 before they even take hold in his body 08:24 but the thing is the vampires they're 08:26 coming after him hard body they want to 08:29 drink from him so bad they can literally 08:30 taste it already and leave it to what 08:32 Wolverine originally thought was a woman 08:34 trying to sell him flowers is actually a 08:36 whole last vampire hunter named Lewis 08:39 from the night guard the secret order of 08:42 vampire hunters and killers of other 08:45 supernatural things they take out a 08:47 whole coven of vampires here they take 08:49 out a coven of vampires their thing is 08:52 they're not getting at the actual leader 08:54 and the leader of the vampires that 08:56 really wants a piece of them is Dracula 08:59 because not that long ago an Avengers 09:02 you can't remember that the vampire 09:03 nation has risen up and there was like 09:06 this insurrection that was actually kind 09:08 of a fake coup that was basically 09:10 setting dracula up to become the next 09:12 big bad in the Marvel Universe right now 09:15 I don't want to put Eric Bischoff's 09:17 theme music in E in anybody's head 09:21 [Music] 09:24 and right now the one thing he wants is 09:27 Wolverines blood there is something in 09:30 his blood that's gonna help rejuvenate 09:31 him and honestly what makes sense 09:33 Wolverine has a healing factor the guy's 09:35 been shot stabbed burned blown up 09:38 vaporized and he hidden every single 09:41 ass's has come back and maybe some of 09:43 this was a ruse during the adventures 09:44 run but it seemed like Dracula's powers 09:46 had kind of waned some and what better 09:49 way to bring his powers back then by 09:51 drinking the blood of one of the most 09:53 prolific killers with a healing factor 09:55 in the Marvel Universe not only that but 09:58 his blood is eerily similar to a 10:01 vampire's the biggest differences being 10:03 that when Wolverines blood leaves his 10:05 body it begins to lose these potent 10:08 properties that it possesses where's the 10:11 vampires doesn't but on the flip side of 10:13 that his blood doesn't deteriorate when 10:16 it's exposed to UV light which a 10:19 vampire's will that and it is compatible 10:22 with any other blood type even more 10:25 reason why Dracula would want it worse 10:28 yet we learned that Omega Red is not 10:30 exactly out of the woods yet 10:32 he needs a carbonadium synthesizer to 10:34 keep him from having to kill other 10:37 people to maintain his lifeforce and it 10:39 just so happens that Dracula is 10:42 bankrolling this whole thing he is 10:45 giving Omega Red the synthesizer he 10:47 needs a beard one that is rigged to 10:50 explode should Omega red start him 10:53 feeling himself a little too much but at 10:55 the same time he wants to make a red to 10:57 stay on krakoa 10:59 and get all the information that he can 11:01 and feed it back to him he wants Omega 11:03 Red there as his own personal spy he 11:06 wants to make a red to pledge his 11:08 loyalty to crack OA but ultimately obey 11:11 Him above all else so right there in 11:15 this book a mean granny it took him 11:16 almost 60 some on pages 11:18 but they told two complete stories that 11:20 I'm here for originally this was the 11:22 book I was least interested in of any of 11:24 the new God help us fuse five six I'm on 11:27 different x titles they're introducing 11:29 and I gotta admit this one caught my 11:31 attention I'm like okay let's let's do 11:33 this I like the idea of going in some 11:36 different directions where it seems like 11:37 yes some of this is gonna lean a little 11:39 more heavily on what's going on with the 11:40 side of you x-force but some of this is 11:42 gonna lean on something that has nothing 11:44 to do with Wolverine in a lot of respect 11:46 some stuff though 11:46 bo started technically with the Avengers 11:48 I'm here for it I want to see more of 11:51 this and yeah in a lot of ways I 11:53 actually kind of prefer you the second 11:55 story this vampire story most of you 11:57 guys I have a soft spot in my heart for 11:58 vampires but still I'm actually more 11:59 interested in this story than the one 12:01 they told the very beginning because 12:02 really the only bad thing I can say 12:03 about this book but honestly I think 12:04 there's something to like for anybody 12:06 who's a wolf or anything even if you're 12:08 not a Wolverine fan which I'm not I'm 12:10 not the biggest Wolverine fan what this 12:12 book it did something for me I like it I 12:15 will blithely keep up with it you know 12:17 until it gets bad which means Benjamin 12:19 Percy it probably won't get bad but you 12:21 never know I like the themes gonna hear 12:23 I think the writing was solid I like the 12:24 artwork in both sides of this book I 12:26 don't like to have me kind of playing on 12:27 some of the themes from house of X that 12:29 people thought were kind of weird the 12:30 fact that Wolverine seems happy now and 12:32 you know kind of even going even further 12:34 into that I thought that was really 12:35 interesting and the whole thing doing 12:37 the weirdness between Wolverine and Jean 12:39 Grey I'm still not used to that I just 12:41 yeah whatever anyway point of the matter 12:43 is this book is solid you should 12:45 definitely be checking it out and who 12:46 knows maybe I'll do more videos about it 12:48 if it keeps being good but anyways let 12:50 me know what you thought about Wolverine 12:52 number one by Benjamin Percy Victor 12:55 Bogdanovich and Andy Kubert sound off in 12:58 the comments say you made it to the end 13:01 of the video awesome for you if you 13:02 enjoyed this video and if you made it 13:03 this far I don't see how you didn't do 13:05 me a favor 13:06 Hulk smash that like button and if you 13:08 want to see more awesome videos like 13:09 this one make sure you click subscribe 13:10 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