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Enemy of the State (Part 6)
By Mark Millar, John Romita Jr, Klaus Janson
Apr 2005

- I have mixed feelings about the way that parts of this story were told off panel
- no Elektra in this part but I've got a feeling that she will be back in the next story
- Wolverine sneaks into the X Mansion, forces Rachel Summers to take him down to Cerebro, tries forcing her to use it to kill POTUS but she turns the tables on him by figuring out how to telekinetically disable the bomb he has with him by reading Reed Richards mind, with a little help from Cerebro
- then the whole X Mansion is after him; he kills some SHIELD agents and Northstar but in the end, with some help from Captain America, W is captured and sedated
- Baron Strucker gets executed by Gorgon, off panel

- overall not crazy about this story, it seems to try to encompass a little too much

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Enemy of the State (Part 5)
By Mark Millar, John Romita Jr, Klaus Janson
Mar 2005

- Wolverine vs Daredevil in DD's apartment and Wolvie brought some friends, a couple dozen ninjas; but it is all a trap; Elektra is on a nearby rooftop with a sniper rifle and a bunch of SHIELD agents but then Gorgon shows up and takes out the SHIELD agents by turning them to stone
- Elektra vs Gorgon - they battle on the roof, in the snow with blades
- Daredevil gets the upper hand in the fight, tries talking Wolvie back to the good guys side but Wolvie remains resolved to follow orders until he falls backwards and is impaled on a sword, then he begins to see things clearly again but Hydra isn't ready to let him go
- Wolvie starts to explain what Hydra, the Hand and the Dawn of the New Light have planned, he figures that they will teleport him out of there and they do but before he vanishes he tells DD that they have a hit planed on POTUS
- DD points out that Wolvie failed in his mission but it turns out that DD wasn't the target but the bait, the final page is a splash page of Elektra on an altar, presumably about to be killed or sacrificed by the baddies

- loved the twist at the end, made what seemed like a very straight forward story seem like much more than that
- so far this seems like an Elektra story in much the same way that Batman Year One is often described as a Jim Gordon story

4/15

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Enemy of the State (Part 4)
By Mark Millar, John Romita Jr, Klaus Janson
Feb 2005

-Wolverine has been very active as an agent of Dawn of the White Light leading numerous attacks
- big focus on Elektra as she advised Fury on how to deal with a superhero who was killed by the Hand and then later a solo fight she has with hand on a rooftop
- summary on page 1 seems to be providing details that are not in the story itself
- Emma Frost uses an idea of Elektra's to try and track down Wolverine using precognitive mutants and Cerebro
- Elsbeth Von Strucker, the Baron's wife
- signs that Wolverine hasn't completely gone evil: stopping to pet a dog, saving a woman from an scrape attempt
- Wolverine and the Hand come for Daredevil

- beautiful visual storytelling, especially the big fight scenes with the Hand
- rooftop scenes, mostly fights, are great and definitely a callback to Miller's run on Daredevil
- if Wolverine is the star then Elektra is the number one supporting character of this arc

4/12

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Enemy of the State (Part 3)
By Mark Millar, John Romita Jr, Klaus Janson
Jan 2005

- Wolverine continues with his surveillance of the Baxter Building, lots of back in forth inside his head as he makes notes about the FF before Reed's devices detect him
- Human Torch hits him first but W strikes back using the buildings fire suppression system
- nice moment between Reed and Sue, where he tells her about a machine he had created to mimic himself and she questions if she is talking to the real Him or the machine
- Wolverine also tussles with the Thing and Mr. Fantastic but as W figured Invisible Woman gives him the most trouble, cuts off his breathing and turns him temporarily blind but he manages to escape with some help from Hydra
- a bit of misdirection, I thought his mission was to kill the FF but it turns out that the Hand and Hydra wanted data from Reed Richards lab, and W accomplished that mission
- Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs) moment after the second fight between HT and W; EMTs think they have HT bandaged up but it's actually Wolverine; it was kind of obvious what was coming
- a few glimpses inside Hand or Hydra HQ from where Gorgon and Baron and Strucker are directing things; apparently AIM is also involved and Wolverine's next stop will be Stark Industries
- still good but this issue wasn't quite as much fun as the first two

4/7

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Enemy of the State (Part 2)
By Mark Millar, John Romita Jr, Klaus Janson
Dec 2004

- Wolverine vs Elektra aboard the ship
- Wolverine continues to get orders from a voice inside his head
- Wolverine chops his way through some SHIELD agents before Elektra steps in, it seems that she has him on the ropes but Wolverine rigged some explosives to blow a hole in the side of the ship
- Wolverine gets sucked out into the Atlantic but survives the experience, fights with sharks
- the ship sinks but Elektra avoids drowning unlike the SHIELD personnel thanks to a containment or HazMat suit that she finds
- Nick Fury Elektra and many others meet aboard the Helicarrier 24 hours after Wolverine escapes, they believe that Wolverine has been programmed to take down (kill) other superheroes so that they can be subsequently be resurrected as the servants/assassins of the Hand
- brief glimpses inside the Xavier School and Baxter Building, the latter is being evacuated, only the FF are sticking around, a force field is erected around the building but it is too late because Wolverine is already inside

- love the art
- more splash pages
- Wolverine vs SHIELD agents
- Wolverine gutting a shark
- Wolverine hiding in an air duct in the Baxter Bldg about to strike

- so many great moments
- Wolverine vs Elektra
- Wolverine vs the Sharks
- quiet moment aboard the Helicarrier as Air Force One arrives
- Wolverine hiding in the air ducts of the Baxter Building

- nice mix of dialogue and silent storytelling
- Elektra reading Ulysses
- Elektra used to work for the Hand

4/5

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Enemy of the State (Part 1)
By Mark Millar, John Romita Jr, Klaus Janson
Dec 2004

- a boy in Japan is kidnapped, he is the son of a chauffeur and the kidnappers mistakenly believe he is the son of the chauffeur's boss; Ichiro, the boy's father, is the cousin of Mariko, Wolverine's ex-wife
- Wolverine travels to Japan to help out but winds up getting almost killed after a battle with undead ninjas; in the end it is a mutant named Gorgon who takes him down
- Wolverine is found half alive in South America, he wakes up on a SHIELD ship in the South Atlantic Ocean in a hospital bed, his body is healing itself but he has lost an eye and is wearing bandages over most of his body
- he starts hearing voices in his head, giving him instruction, telling him to do things, like kill the doctor attending him, which he does
- the issue ends with Wolverine out of bed, in uniform, and about to fight Elektra
- Nick Fury and Kitty Pryde also appear in this issue
- love the art, couple of double page spreads plus a wrap around cover plus 3 splash pages
- this is all set up but I like what I'm seeing and reading so far
4/1