Wolverine: Xisle #5

Publisher
Marvel
Year
2003
Month
10
LastChanged
2/11/2024 2:14:58 PM
Wolverine: Xisle

Summary

  Logan throws knives but misses; Amiko runs off; Logan chases her into the water, where the Yeti attacks him.

  He wakes on the island; the barmaid says goodbye and doesn't answer his questions but just walks away. Logan goes back to the bar, now desolate, and finds the Coney Island book there. The boy enters, refuses to answer questions, and says Logan has to finish the fight to get off the island, but he'll lose if he tries now. Logan pops claws and lifts the boy by the shirtfront; the boy asks if it's really him he despises. The bartender appears, yelling "Hurry!" and becoming the carnival barker. Logan drags Amiko away from the freak show and throws knives to win a bear. He misses and gets angry; the last knife completely misses, pierces the tent and kills the Yeti-man. The mob goes wild, and Amiko runs.

  Logan finds himself on the beach; he realizes he wrote in the sand himself and put himself on the island. The barmaid asks about the boy; he says it's his inner child, and she stands for his mother, or an old love, or Amiko telling him she doesn't hate him. That's what he fears.

  He's fought his subconscious and thinks he's won, but she says he has to face the Yeti. He decides to let it kill him and runs into the jungle. He lets the Yeti slash him, but he can't let himself be killed and impales the Yeti through the heart. He thinks he's failed; the barmaid says he's won by forgiving himself and slaying his real enemy: his fear of being a freak.

  A helicopter lands on the beach; Logan asks the pilot who he is; he says Logan hired him to put him on the island for a day, and he knows what the bar's name means: Riposite, Latin for the answer.

  Note: riposte is French for answer in the sense of a reply; explicatio is Latin for answer in the sense of a solution.