I'm not going to NOT read it, though.
The last five issues have shown Wolverine's quest for revenge against the Red Right Hand. No, not Hellboy. The Red Right Hand is a group of people brought together by their hatred of Wolverine. This group may not be entirely fictional. I'm thinking of joining the Red Right Hand just because I'm as sick of Wolverine as he is of himself. Anyway RRR wants revenge on him because all of them, at some point in time, have lost a loved one due either directly or indirectly to Wolverine. Each issue has shown Wolverine fighting one of the Mongrels; specially trained badguys whose talents include monologues and getting killed quickly. As Wolverine faces each one, we get to see a back story of a member of the RRR and their loved one that was killed by Wolverine.
As Logan guts the last of the Mongrels, he stalks towards the final door and to the people responsible for all of the troubles he's been having to deal with. He's pauses to ask the dying man if he knows him. The man tells him that they've never met. Didn't think much of it, did you Wolvie?
Well, right as he bursts into the next room, the RRR all drink poison and are lying dead on the floor, depriving Logan of his revenge. No big deal, right? They're dead. So he's had his revenge, right?
A monitor is in this room and on it is the leader of the RRR, now dead on the ground, explaining to Logan why they hate him and why they did this. They wanted to hurt him. They wanted him to feel their pain. As Logan is reading a file left for him, and listening to the man explain how they wanted to hurt him, he discovers that all five Mongrels he just killed were actually his own children.
Wolverine, you just got PUNK'D!!!
I give this dynamic plot twist fives bloody, tearful reunions up and 13 boring lead-up issues down.
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