Wolverine’s Claws Slice Through Reality in Jaw-Dropping Art of Final Form

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Warning: contains spoilers for X Deaths of Wolverine #3

New cover art of Wolverine's final «Omega» form shows his claws cutting through reality itself. Marvel Comics' intertwined miniseries, X Lives of Wolverine and X Deaths of Wolverine, are currently charting two time-travel missions, as the modern-day Logan of X Lives jumps through time to save the life of Charles Xavier, and the future Logan of X Deaths travels back to ensure the death of Moira X. This future Wolverine — from a time when humans and robotic life have merged, keeping the last few mutants as curiosities — is notable for his cybernetic-style redesign, which includes the power to interface with and command computer systems using his claws.

While this Omega Wolverine has so far seemed to be a closed-off killing machine, X Deaths of Wolverine #3 (from Benjamin Percy, Federico Vicentini, Dijjo Lima, and Cory Petit) has revealed that Logan is fully cognizant of his actions — here to kill off Moira X before she becomes the architect of his ruinous future, in which mutantkind is wiped out, and everyone Wolverine knows and loves dies to make way for mankind's ascension to a new form of machine life. To do that, it seem he's embraced the AI race known as the Phalanx, sacrificing his own humanity, and potentially his healing factor, for one last chance to fix the timeline.

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This final, part-machine form is captured perfectly in new variant cover art from Mateus Manhanini, which will appear on select issues of X Deaths of Wolverine #5. The cover shows Wolverine tearing through reality, exposing a white field behind a futuristic cityscape. Of course, this is the perfect metaphor for Logan's