Mission accomplished,further behind on new reading but this issues' excellence was confirmed.Written by Stuart Moore and drawn by C.P.Smith,this story finds Wolverine being recruited for a Black Ops mission by Black Panther.A small African country is torn between a President who is trying to make it a better place,and the rival faction of warlords who have genocide on the brain.Wakanda has a strict no messing with the neighbor's policy,so BP decides to do something about it on the downlow.Wolverine gets dropped into this country and is told to collect a package from the deposed President and get out as fast as possible.
From that point the book feels exactly as it should, like a race against time,and to add to the delicacy of the situation the package is the recently murdered President's infant daughter,whom Panther sees as the countries last chance.Get her out,let her grow up and go back to lead the people who followed her father.Wolverine has to get through dire situation after dire situation with a baby strapped to his back.The art by Smith and his colorist match the characters to the ruddy African country tones of reds oranges and browns very well.The danger level is high as Wolverine races to get the baby out of the country,and the pacing is excellent.
In the end we see why the Panther picked Wolverine over other Avengers to do this,and it has little to do with his physical abilities to take alot of punishment and recover.It has to do with what Wolverine does at the end of the book when faced with the new Warlord President.I won't ruin it,but Cap or Iron Man would have taken a less absolute approach,and you can feel that Panther was looking for a solution.Go to your local comic shop and pick this puppy up,it's worth falling behind other stuff for.
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