What a strange little word. So fictional, yet so real, to those that know what it is. Of course, chances are if you are intentionally reading this blog, and didn't stumble on it because of some bizzare word caught by a search engine, then I won't be telling anything that you don't already know. And chances are, thanks to the X-Men movies that even if you didn't have a clue before, what the hell adamantium was, you surely do now.

And to just veer off the point for just a minute before I get into the subject. . . Wasn't Hugh Jackman, just an awesome Wolverine? I mean I had my fears about any comic book related movie. And I still do. That dude with the face, and the hair that's just everywhere . . . anyway that guy proved that you can take an awesome charecter like Daredevil, surround him with actors that play their roles so well, with parts written so well, in regards to the charecter that they are protraying, and still ruin a movie. Ben Affleck . . . sorry delayed reaction.

But anyway, let's get to the story. Of all the Wolverine stories, this is one of my favorites, as far as on-going, throught the series and into the X-Men books.





To make a long story short, just to get you up to speed with what just happened. Magneto formed a aliiance of mutants that agreed with his ideology of mutants being superior to humans. Anyway he starts this "haven" for those that follow him, in a giant space station orbiting the earth. Called it . . . damn I can't remember, and I don't have the book right here with me. Well at any rate, Xaviar and the X-Men go to the space station to stop Magneto, and his intentions have been to rid the earth of the humans. Although this time, his intentions appear to be nothing more than wanting to seperate him and his mutant followers from the humans that fear and hate them. Xaviar feels that Magneto has an alterior motive, and assembles the X-Men to invade his "castle".

In this battle, as both seem to be at even ends, Wolverine attacks Magneto with every intention of killing him. When Magneto strikes back at Wolverine, the above pictures illustrate what he does to Wolverine.

After the insuing battle and the safe return of the X-Men to Earth, Wolverine once again is back to his old self. Or so he thinks. He tires to participate in a exercise in the Danger Room, only to find that without his adamantium, he is much more vunerable than he was before. As he is attacked, he uses what he has always used in battle against his enemies, his adamantuim claws, or so he thought. There is something different about them.



They are bone claws. But before, since Wolverine's memory has been affected by the lacing of the adamantium to his skeleton, he never knew that the claws were part of himself, always thinking that the claws were adamantium, not bone claws laced with adamantium. What a surprise! Wouldn't you be?



So after this discovery, Wolverine felt that he was a liability to the X-Men, so he left to go out on his own, where he felt that he would not be a burden to the team and the people that he cared about.

Shortly after he left, however, he found himself on the wrong side of of a criminal (with a bad sense of humor) calling himself Cyber.



This was only four short issues after him leaving the X-Men, having lot his adamantium. In this issue, he seems to get on the wrong side of Cyber. Or you could say Cyber got on Wolverine's bad side and an obligatory battle starts. With Wolverine going at Cyber in a patented feral state, slashing and cutting. But to no avail. After all Cyber is one tough cookie. And so after taking a stab (literaly) at Cyber's face, Wolverine gets a bitch slap from Cyber, something he is not use to. Something that with his adamantium skeleton would have never happened to him before. Like a healthy person facing untreatable cancer. The fear of being vunerable and unable to defend yourself against something that can't be killed. Something that lives inside of you, eating you away, until there is nothing left of you.

SNAP!



And so Wolverine suffers another blow to his ego. Now not only does he not have the adamantium that he was so use to, now he has a set of broken bone claws.

Never fear, however, Wolverine does get his adamantium back. That however will be for a future post, and one that I will have to read up on before I do a post. I have read so much in the many years, that all the details of all these stories sometimes run together.

Well thank you, once again for reading, and I hope that you have enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed the memories that go with, bring this story back to life. Take care people.