Wolverine Magazine #3

In "Zone of Alienation Part 1 (of 2)," Kitty Pryde’s suspicions about Colossus’s mysterious call spiral into a high-stakes mission when she drags Wolverine into tracking down the woman on the line—only to find herself aboard a flight to Russia, stowing away after the truth unfolds. With Logan forced to follow in the landing gear, the two crash-land in a desolate, irradiated zone where the Soviet Super Soldiers’ enigmatic leader, Darkstar, has summoned Peter Rasputin for a dangerous mission. As Wolverine fights to protect Kitty after her phasing goes awry, the line between duty and survival blurs in a landscape that feels more like a ghost town than a battlefield. Written by Fred Van Lente and illustrated by Steven Cummings, with inks by Vicente Cifuentes, colors by Sotocolor’s A. Street, and letters by Deron Bennett, the issue’s cover by Joe Quesada and Danny Miki captures the tension of a mission gone off the rails.