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Synopsis: In Stockton, California, Logan has found the truck in which Nitro escaped Stamford. It took him four days and he had to beat up a whole bar full of stooges to get a chance to speak with the hick driver. With a little 'persuasion,' Logan gets the driver to reveal where Nitro was dropped off and that he paid cash. Nitro is in Big Sur in California, nothing around but bears, birds and a lack of civilization. So Logan gets on his bike but it turns out that Iron Man has tracked him down. After Logan ambushes Stark, the two catch up on the Superhero Registration Act, and how Logan is already signed up due to being one of the 198 mutants left on the planet. Eventually Logan gives up Nitro's location, which is what Iron Man needed for a strike team. Logan's none too happy about that and calls Iron Man out on what he plans to do with Nitro, whereas Logan just plans on killing him. Iron Man doesn't think that's the answer. Killing Nitro won't bring the Stamford kids back, but Logan says it's not about that. When Iron Man asks what it is about, all Logan can do is stare back at him.

In Daytona Beach, Florida, the suburban couple from the last issue find a Jamaican surfer. When the dread-locked one beats up some surfer punks for hassling him, the couple knows they've found the right man.

Wolverine joins the strike team to bring down Nitro, a bunch of heavily-armed troops that gets blown up real good when they try a frontal assault by air-dropping around Nitro's cabin. Logan himself is fried down to the bone. When all is said and done, Nitro makes a call to people the people who hooked him up with the cabin in Big Sur. He also pops some pills as he gloats about killing Wolverine. The man he's speaking with just happens to be driving around Washington D.C., and he's none too pleased with Nitro's gloating. He reminds Nitro that there has been no contract between them, everything Nitro's been given is a charity, and that Nitro is a dangerous man to be associated with, so he will no longer do so. The mysterious businessman ends the call.

Back in Stockton, the suburban couple and their dreadlocked friend, Janus, kill the truck driver that Logan interrogated after getting their own information from him. They also tell the trucker that they're not human.

Back in Big Sur, Nitro's about to leave in an SUV but Logan comes up behind him and knocks him to the ground. Flesh healing quickly, he pops his claws and is ready for round 2.

Review: Still great! I'm definitely loving this Wolverine arc. It's got the right attitude, plenty of action and humor and enough of a mystery to make me think that this is vital to Civil War. There's obviously something deeper behind the explosion at Stamford, and this is the perfect title to find out what. Frankly, to understand that the explosion was in any way planned would not derail the Registration Act. The SRA exists beyond Stamford now, Stamford is just the pressure button that Iron Man pushes when he wants to guilt someone into following him. So I'm really excited to see what the truth is and I, again, think Wolverine is the perfect guy to find out. Let the other superheroes worry about their little war, Wolverine will get the real job done.

The story here flows quickly and Guggenheim nails Wolverine's famous inner monologue. Wolverine is just doing what Wolverine does, no need for Iron Man to come in and try to wrap his mind around something. It even fits that Wolverine would decide to accompany the strike team, though it's a little predictable that they'd all get blown up. Their plan was to simply jump on the guy with little regard for his freaking explosions! Serves them right, I guess. It's also stretching credibility a little too much for Logan to heal so quickly after being burned down to the bone...or back from the dead, thank you very much. Though I've read around the net and in previews that this might get explained, it's a little too jarring in the story itself.

The art is still wonderful. Ramos' style is pretty far out there, but the chaotic energy is perfect for Wolverine. At least as far as I'm concerned. He draws a good explosion, and Nitro looks wonderfully sinister in his jeans and plaid. Though he looks kind of like a young punk. Nitro is lacking in gravitas.