Resurrection

• Story - Erik Larsen
• Colorist - Marie Javins
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Editor - Mark Powers
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras
• Inker - Jimmy Palmiotti
• Penciler - Graham Nolan

Summary

  Rich Rider (aka Nova) and his friend, Bernie, are pulling the late night shift at the local Marvel Burger when Logan, drenched from the rain, walks in to order a cup of coffee. Rich and Bernie didn't recognize Logan, thinking that he was some dirty homeless guy sitting in the corner of the restaurant, stinking up the place. Only after Rich gives Logan a refill at his table does Rich realize that the "homeless guy" was actually Wolverine, one of the X-Men. Rich notices how Logan looked to be in rough shape, but before he and Bernie can ask Logan about it, Logan was gone.

  Out in the street, Logan trudges along, thinking about how much more he had taken his healing factor for granted, along with what had happened to him as of late: from a shape-shifting skrull pretending to be him, to him being kidnapped by Apocalypse and regaining his adamantium, to now losing his mutant powers, which is resulting in him slowly dying from adamantium poisoning. With too many questions being unanswered, Logan decided to do some investigation of his own. Way back in Wolverine #140, Nightcrawler and "Wolverine" (the imposter, not the real one) had gone to investigate the sighting of Magneto in an abandoned warehouse in New York City, but instead had come across a robot. Logan decides to investigate this further. Inside, Logan finds a stockpile of old androids, many of which resembled either well-known superheroes like Captain America or Thor, and supervillians like the Sentinels that the X-Men fought numerous times.

  Logan encounters a villian who called himself The Reanimator, who thinks Logan is a homeless bum trying to get out of the rain, and threatens to kill him unless Logan leaves. Logan tells The Reanimator that he was trying to find out why his friends were attacked there a couple of nights ago. A siren goes off, alerting The Reanimator that his "...most hated nemesis", Nova, had arrived. Thinking that Wolverine was just a ploy to allow Nova to attack from behind, The Reanimator attacks Wolverine with an explosion. Logan, in the condition that he was in, decided he didn't want to risk using his claws since they would cause him more damage than the robots attacking him would, so he tries dodging attacks. Nova bursts in to assist Logan in fighting off the robots, but Nova gets sucker-punched from behind. Logan, with no options remaining, had to unleash his claws and fight back. Logan sends Nova off to get more help, seeing that the two of them weren't in any condition to fight the odds of them winning while being outmanned.

  Nova flies back to the New Warriors HQ, and recruits the help of his teammates, the New Warriors. In the meantime, Logan continues fighting off the robots, but getting slower by the second as the adamantium was wearing him out. Only then does the Reanimator finally realizes that this guy fighting was Wolverine, and tries to mount a final attack with the robots he was "reanimating". Nova arrives in the nick of time to rescue Logan. With the robots giving chase after Nova and Logan, the Reanimator tries to escape, but the New Warriors arrives in time to capture him. Namorita deals with the Reanimator, while the rest of the squad joins Nova and Wolverine in finishing off the robots.

  Returning back to where Namorita was, Wolverine tries to convince the Reanimator to shut off the robots. The Reanimator tells them that his mutant power was the ability to reconstruct and reanimate any mechanical objects, but his powers were gone, which meant he couldn't shut the robots down. The New Warriors and Logan heads back to finish off the rest of the robots. And with that, the police arrives to apprehend The Reanimator with the New Warriors turning him in, and Logan heads off on his own.

  Back at Marvel Burger, where Logan had returned and Rich was back on the job, the two were having a discussion about wondering why the Reanimator was stock-piling up robots that resembled superheroes and villians, but mentioned that as long as the mutant's powers were all turned off (courtesy of the High Evolutionary; see this month's issue of either Uncanny X-Men or X-Men for more details), the Reanimator would pose little threat to them. Logan gives Nova a pointer about how the New Warriors needed to brush up on their teamwork, before he sets off back into the streets.