Given their connection, we knew Kitty Pryde would appear in the Death of Wolverine storyline
Kitty has been Logan’s sidekick, fellow X-Man and most recently co-headmaster of the Jean Grey School.
As Marvel revealed the cover for Death of Wolverine #3 it looks like Kitty will play a critical role in Logan’s final adventure.
“I wanted to have Kitty showing her powers as she is not in costume here, and I also wanted to get a katana in there as well. But having her coming through the sword? It just came to me as I was messing around with ideas. I try and gather up all the imagery I can pull from the issue without being too specific about what goes on in the book, put them all in front of me and start to play around,” artist Steve McNiven told Marvel.com.
“This issue is very concerned with questions of acceptance of one’s mortality. The villain who shows up here is someone who ties thematically into those ideas very strongly—one of my long-time favorite Wolverine baddies, in fact. I think Steve and co. did an incredible job creating a Wolverine who’s fatalistic, but still up for a fight. And having the plum blossoms on one side—a symbol of spring and rebirth—and Logan on the other, as he approaches the end of his life, it just works for me. And hopefully for everyone else!” says writer Charles Soule.
Seeing this image reminds me of the classic Wolverine and Kitty Pryde limited series by Chris Claremont. This was the storyline that took Logan and Kitty to Japan where she became Shadowcat first took up a sword.
Death of Wolverine begins in September.
By Editor