Wolverine: Xisle

• Writer - Bruce Jones
• Artist - Jorge Lucas
• Colorist - Studio F
• Colorist - Oscar Carreno
• Lettering - Dave Sharpe
• Ass't Editor - Nova Suma
• Ass't Editor - Mike Raicht
• Editor - Mike Marts
• Editor in Chief - Joe Quesada

Summary

  Logan is in a museum with his foster daughter Amiko. He doesn't appreciate Howard Pyle's "Marooned", of a disconsolate pirate stranded on a beach; he likes Delacroix's "Death of Sardanapalus", of a calm Assyrian ordering his concubines slaughtered as his kingdom is invaded. Amiko thinks he's a boor (he recognizes no painter but Rockwell), but agrees to go to a carnival with him. She thinks everyone is like that pirate, "trapped on our private little islands"; he thinks she's too mature for 13.

  They ride through the Tunnel of Horror; he is unimpressed with the werewolf's fighting stance. She shushes him, but he's not ashamed of being a mutant. She wonders why she loves him: must be because he's a furry teddy bear.

  She asks him to win her a bear, though he's reluctant to try a rigged game, and when he knocks down all the milk bottles, the barker says he's a mutant and won't pay up. Logan gets angry and starts to fight; Amiko pulls him away. On the Ferris wheel, Logan gruffly apologizes.

  Amiko follows a crowd to the freak show, but Logan refuses to watch, saying they should get real jobs. He gives Amiko some cash and walks off; she catches up to him, having just given the money to the freaks out of sympathy. Logan decides to win her a bear and throws knives this time, but he is heckled by spectators who call him a werewolf, and he misses repeatedly, getting angrier each time. The crowd mobs him, and he goes berserk; Amiko runs away, and Logan follows.

  Logan drinks in a bar and remembers chasing Amiko on the beach. He passes out between Jim Beam and Jack Daniels and wakes on a beach.

  Note: Marooned hangs in the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington. Delacroix's Death of Sardanapalus lives at the Louvre.