The Road to Casablanca

• Writer - Scott Lobdell
• Penciler - Joe Madureira
• Inker - Tim Townsend
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Colorist - Team Bucce
• Editor - Bob Harras

Summary

  Note: this takes place after Wolverine 100.

  Logan has gone feral to defeat off Genesis, and run off. Xavier goes to Casablanca to hire the interdimensional firm Landau, Luckman and Lake to get information. Bobby tells Sam not to blame himself; Jean telepathically locks on to Logan, and they go after him.

  Xavier stays to parry with Culloden. He manipulates her mind to let her think she has killed him, interested in seeing how far she would go. Then he paralyzes her hands and demands information.

  Logan sniffs around a castle, falling through a trap door and into Ozymandias's lair. He was a king, but Apocalypse enslaved him. He chisels pictures of Apocalypse's future on the walls of his prison, which he doesn't understand. He demands Logan explain why he is there, but then Scott arrives and blasts him. He tells him Apocalypse is dead (X-Force 18), but Ozymandias says he is eternal. He strikes the wall with his mallet, and stone versions of various mutants emerge. The X-Men attack; Bobby freezes their insides so Scott can shatter most of them with one blast. But the Wolverine statue knocks Scott down an abyss, and the other X-Men are captured.