Synopsis & Review by Sean Mills. Thanks!:
Synopsis: Just before Wolverine gets his head cut off by a Damage Control armored soldier, the adamantium spinning blade gets stuck. The soldier confers with his buddy over the piece of junk, then they share a high five for taking down the Wolverine. They leave the bloodied hero on the ground as they check on the third soldier, who got his insides pretty well claws out. The guy's mumbling something the other two can't understand, but the cavalry clears it up for them. Janus and the blonde Atlantean show up and clean house as Wolverine heals from his neck wound. The blonde explains that they've been following him since Westchester, just as he'd requested, and together they all finished off the soldiers. But that's when SHIELD shows up, and they've brought along the Sentry. The man with the power of a thousand exploding suns tells Wolverine to stand down, and one of the SHIELD grunts attempts to arrest him for violation of the superhuman registration act. Wolverine punches the grunt in the stomach, but the Sentry simply tosses Logan away. But Wolverine gets back up and charges in for a fight. The Sentry seems reluctant to play a part in Civil War, but he's decided to become a part of it for a little while in order to stop it.

Then he knocks Wolverine unconcious.

He wakes up some time later on a SHIELD helicarrier in fancy restraints, including a large metal inhibitor collar and giant gauntlets covering his hands. He's brought to see Director Maria Hill and the two exchange a few words, both egos battling for control in the calm conversation. The registration act is brought up, but Wolverine says he was only going after a scumbag war profiteer. Director Hill explains that Walter Declun is a board member on the New York Stock Exchange and a friend of the president, he's also pressing federal charges. The registration act should not be Wolverine's chief concern. They trade a few more barbs about the registration act and trading liberty for safety, but eventually Director Hill offers the Canadian two choices: play ball and get immunity for his crimes or spend the rest of his slow-aging life in Reed Richards' fancy new Negative Zone prison. Logan has a third option: slice his way through the shackles, grab her gun and shoot his way out.

Director Hill scoffs at the idea and explains that the collar he's wearing is a Levle 10 power-nullifier. Logan says that's a mistake most people make, thinking that because his claws are the result of a genetic mutation that makes them a super power. With a grin on his face, Wolverine slices out of his shackles, grabs her gun and shoots his way out of one of the windows. Of course, he was in a helicarrier and is now plummeting thousands of feet to the city below. Sure the collar doesn't effect his claws, but without a healing factor...the falls is going to hurt...

At the Damage Control officers, the friendly president that Logan met several issues ago is trying to get the Board of Directors to vote Declun out of CEO. She argues with Declun back and forth about who has done more for the company, or where was her anger when he was making the company money? She says she was waiting until Declun and his backers had done enough damage, spending so much money to make future money, that she could convince the board. Declun states that the only way they'll remove him from CEO is over his dead body. Arriving at the door, Wolverine asks if he can do it. The board members flee as Wolverine and Declun face off, levying threats before Declun takes a couple mutant growth hormone pills. Logan pops his claws and the battle is on. As the two fight, smashing through a window and taking it to the streets, we begin to read a future conversation between Wolverine and Miriam Sharpe, the mother who has consistently pressured Tony Stark to continue the Civil War because her son was killed at Stamford. They're visiting the wreckage together. Wolverine says that the fight between he and Declun was the only way it could have ended, at least his way of ending it, because he knows that you just have to put a rabid dog down. Miriam tells Wolverine not to let Declun off the hook like that. He wasn't a rabid dog, he was evil, simple as that. Wolverine agrees, to an extent. Maybe Declun is evil, but he's not the kind of evil they're used to. They're used to seeing the thoughtful kind of evil, where the bad guy thinks through all the pros and cons of his diabolical plan and just doesn't care about the cons. But Wolverine says that's not really evil. Evil doesn't think, it just acts. Bad guys just do what they want to do, they act on instinct, like a rabid dog.

At least that's what he tells himself in those rare times when he's had too much to tdrink and finds himself regretting the stuff he's done in his life.

In the fight, Wolverine has beaten Declun senseless in front of a large group of people out on the street. He picks up Declun and holds his claws at the man's face...

At the wreckage, Miriam asks if Wolverine regrets everything he's done since Stamford. He replies that maybe he should, but no, he doesn't.

Back at the fight, Wolverine stabs his claws through Declun's head.

Review: Now that was an awesome ending! There was no other way this story could have ended than with Wolverine getting his brutal and bloody revenge. He had to pass on Nitro, but Declun was just bastard enough to get the claws! Talking about it with Miriam seemed a little out of place, especially since they ended up just standing in the rubble of Stamford, but the speech at the end was effective. This story has been spectacular in getting to the heart of Wolverine without just going for the man vs. animal route. That's been done to death. The difference between being the noble superhero and his usual take-no-prisoners self is a much more interesting story for Wolverine, especially in the context of Civil War. I would definitely call this a vital tie-in because it explains what Wolverine is doing while the rest of the heroes wage war against each other. The fact that Nitro was boosted by a war profiteer just adds some exciting depth to Stamford, which has become but a memory in the actual title. Stamford has nothing to do with the Registration Act or the Civil War, so it was definitely free ground for Wolverine to play with. Guggenheim and Ramos have done a fantastic job.