With the robotic mutants are even cooler.
Wolverine has been through a lot since the founding of Krakoa, and recently traversed through time and space to relive his most intense traumas in an attempt to save Charles Xavier from Omega Red, after which he took down his future Phalanx-infested self, Omega Wolverine. More than anyone else on the island, Wolverine deserves a vacation, but it is clear that a break is not in the cards for Logan as he is taking center stage in both X-Force and his Wolverine solo-title. Deadpool on the other hand has been trying to X-Force and the island of Krakoa for ages, and it seems like he might have finally found his way in in the pages of Wolverine.
Artist Declan Shalvey shared his variant cover for Wolverine #22 - written by Wolverine-expert Benjamin Percy with art by Adam Kubert - that depicts Wolverine and Deadpool fighting and winning against a team of Robotic X-Men. However solicits for the next run of Wolverine suggest that the Robot X-Men will be introduced earlier, in Wolverine #20, his first solo book back from the X-Lives/X-Deaths event, and may have been created by the CIA's X-Desk. Regardless of how the Robot X-Men came to be, Shalvey's depiction of them in his variant cover shared on Twitter shows them to be clunky, classically designed robot doppelgangers, which is a lot cooler than the overused sleekly designed robots often seen in modern comics. The solicit for Wolverine #20 reads:
THE BRUTAL RETURN OF THE BEST THERE IS…WITH AN UNLIKELY PARTNER! DEADPOOL was the king of Staten Island—now he wants to be an honorary citizen of Krakoa. WOLVERINE just wants him to shut up. But when Deadpool uncovers a dangerous plot that could mean doom for the mutants’ safe haven, it’s going to take a titanic team-up of the Best There Is and the Merc with a Mouth to quell the threat. But that doesn’t mean Logan has to like it. Featuring Wolverine and Deadpool at their most savage, as well as the return of a fan-favorite X-character to the Krakoan era! (And no, we don’t mean Wade.)
Deadpool is not a mutant, he is a human mutate meaning he is a baseline human that was mutated, but does not have an X-Gene. So while he technically is not a natural born citizen of Krakoa, his longterm of the X-Men (even though he did start out as an enemy in New Mutants) means that if he is able to help Logan with this deadly mission, maybe he finally will be given residency on Krakoa. Shalvey's variant cover shows a destroyed Robot Jean Grey, Cyclops, and Wolverine, suggesting that the robots may be based on a more classic X-Men team, since Wolverine is not currently on the X-Men. Whoever made the Robot X-Men made their clanking, hinge-jawed design a pleasant reprieve from the oversaturated use of sophisticated robotic duplicates.
Logan and Wade are in for what appears to be a brutal battle, with Shalvey's art showing both of their costumes torn to shreds, but unless the robots are made out of adamantium, it seems unlikely that they will prove too difficult for the dynamic duo. Make sure to check out Wolverine #20 to see the first introduction of the Robot X-Men into the Marvel Comics universe, and keep reading to see Logan and Deadpool in what will certainly be a hilarious and violent team-up.
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