Ultimate Wolverine, Bd. 2: Der Widerstand

Ultimate Wolverine (2025)

by Chris Condon, Alessandro Cappuccio (Illustrator)

Continuing the brutal story of the Winter Soldier, A.K.A. the Ultimate Wolverine!

The Opposition may have finally helped Logan reclaim his identity! But to what lengths will Colossus, Magik and Omega Red go to keep their prized weapon? Don’t miss Ultimate Magik revealing the shocking extent of her power! But as the Opposition infiltrates a facility holding a group of high-powered mutants, the Winter Soldier’s handler has a sinister plot to destroy them once and for all.

COLLECTING: Ultimate Wolverine (2025) #7-12

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels, X Men, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics

Kindle Edition

First published March 31, 2026

Reviews

[Oscar]

A bit rushed but still really good! 3.7 🌟

[Dakota Morgan]

I was not a fan of the first Ultimate Wolverine volume, but I think that's because Wolverine was trapped in Winter Soldier mode, all violence with no nuance. Sure, make him evil, but make him interesting evil.

In this second volume, we get Wolverine restored to both his gruff-but-good ways and his place on an X-Men team. And that team gets to fight back, which is naturally quite fun. Each issue involves a different play against Colossus and Magik (including a final one that ends with the whole team dead!), most of which are pretty standard but satisfying.

Still not the best Ultimate series, but this second Wolverine volume is loads better than the first. (Even if the art is still touch-and-go)

[Khurram]

I like this book. I wanted yo give this 4.5 stars if there was a bit more action in the book or it was not as rushed i would have tip it to round it up, but it is still an enjoyable book and has big implications in the Ultimate Universe.

Wolverine is back with the Opposition. However, his time as the Winter Soldier has him feeling guilty and out of place. Now it is time to hit back, but this is only going to escalate the conflict. How will be the last one standing?

Good artwork and story, but very rushed. I am not a fan of the extra text page at the end to move the story along. I would have preferred to books to be longer and these were covered in the main story. The book finishes with variant cover gallery.

[Tyler]

Read as individual comics, ratings below:

#7= 4 stars
#8= 3.5 stars
#9= 4 stars
#10= 3 stars
#11= 3.5 stars
#12= 2 stars

Overall rating of 3.5 stars

[Mr. Stick]

"Rrr... saved by the Republic's shoddy workmanship... ain't that the way..."
- Logan, to himself, after being saved from a fall by loose cable at a construction site.

Usually, the 616 Wolverine drops some sick one-liners or awesome quotes. But, this is Ultimate Wolverine. And, not only was he experimented on but, he was brain-washed into a Winter Soldier and used to kill his friends. Which he did. Very well. But some of his friends found a way to break the reprogramming, and now he's back in the Opposition.
So, now we have a mentally broken killing machine welcomed back by the few friends he didn't manage to kill and, as one might imagine, he's got some issues.
My favorite part of this title is Sabertooth as a good guy. Logan and Victor's relationship has gone under the microscope so many times, but rarely gets old.
The first book was good, but this one's even better. A non-stop freight train of skull-dragging. Very good stuff. Four stars.

[Billy]

Volume 2 improves over Volume 1. I'm not the biggest fan of the art, but I'm enjoying the story.

[PebbleInTheBrook1794]

Ultimate Wolverine Vol 2 I found initially to be a tough read, as I wasn't enjoying the first half of the TPB. Fortunately, its second half brought it home in the best way, so I am still able to rate the book fairly decently.

I should say that I really enjoyed Condon's UW Vol1, which I found to be a very good redo of Wolverine's famous Weapon X story. Yes, the story is a fusion of Winter Soldier elements as well, but the overlay of Logan needing to break conditioning caused by a pseudo-Weapon X is really well done. What I found, then, with the first half of Vol 2, is that Logan, now free, lacks this particular pathos, and he is less interesting to me, as just another rebel against the Rasputins and the Eurasian Republic.

That was the case for the first three or so issues, and I was finding the story a slog. Now, I've a lot of time for Condon as a writer though, so I try to see what he is doing with the story. Wolverine was no longer interesting to me in the same he was when he was conditioned and working for the Russians. What then came to be of more interest to me was the Russian setting/context of the story, which really had to be established by Condon because of the whole setup of the Maker's dividing the world into geographical dominions for supervillains to rule over. It had to be done, and fortunately Condon does it well.

It is the more realistic-feeling depiction of a villainous Russian/Eurasian Republic that I found more intriguing, and relevant re: Russia's place in the world today. So, Condon's writing remains good enough that it gives me still a reason to read and appreciate, even when I am no longer enjoying the main character as much.

But after finding that gear/doing that work with the Eurasian Republic, Condon effectively blows it all up with the latter half of this trade - and it's superb! Again, Condon is writing to the constraint of the Ultimate Universe rapidly finishing up with just six months left (out of two years) until the termination of the Ultimate Universe. Events therefore have to happen rapidly in this Eurasian/Wolverine book, and they do, and it's beautiful.

I find the experience of reading this trade's latter half to be like reading a What If...? story, in the tradition of the best of those imaginary stories (and it evoked a feeling from my childhood of doing exactly that - I crave reading experiences that are capable of that!). I'm now looking forward to the final arc in this Eurasian-focussed book, and to see what happens.

[José Ignacio]

Big disappointment carried by gorgeous art

While I didn’t hate the first Volume of this series (nor do I hate this one tbf) this is certainly a massive downgrade in terms of quality, I get that the other Ultimate books also end abruptly because of the weird decision of killing off the Universe after only two years, but this was originally solicited as a 12-Issue series and only got extended to 16 Issues after the fact, so this was originally meant to be its ending (granted, could’ve been rewritten but even that doesn’t explain why the stuff even before the ending is so rushed and all happen so unsatisfactory)

The premise behind the book is still solid in paper, as it fits with the broader theme of the larger New Ultimate Universe of stolen future and purpose, but in execution it’s all so sloppy; I’m not entirely sure what Logan's character arc is supposed to be here, it’s kinda set up to be atonement for all the atrocities he committed while under Winter Soldier control but it eventually just kinda falls off to the wayside without much resolution.

Deaths of certain characters are also kinda meaningless, as there’s not enough time spent with them to truly get a feel for their relationship with Logan outside of the very superficial stuff and even some of their decisions feel like they come out of nowhere, it’s just a very messy book that doesn’t properly set up or explain anything about its characters beyond "well, he’s an alternate version of a character you already like from 616, so there" so it’s a very emotionally flat book for me.

The art is just gorgeous, it’s mostly Alessandro Capuccio on art, coming in hot from his awesome stint on MacKay's Moon Knight and his art is as striking and incredible as ever, god I hope he gets more assignments and books of his own cause I adore his style so much.

Overall, disappointing but god that art is so amazing.

[Subham]

This felt rushed and not that good but the art was kinda cool. I like how it shows Logan joining the resistance and fighting back but feels like it was just 6 issues and the writer had to compress it and couldnt get a lot of story and focus done like exporing members of the resistance and Logans equation with them specially Kitty so when they die the impact doesn't happen but the relation with Sabretooth is fun and like a cool twist with them being friends here.

The issue vs Archangel was good but felt like compressed and so the impact is not there and specially the fight vs Omega Red should have been big like he is one of the main boss and its just few pages but then again I guess they had to get it over in 6 issues and like I was hoping they would explore Logans reaction to killing his friend Kurt but they didnt do it..

But the end becomes emotional with what happens to the resistance and Logan out for revenge vs his captors and it ends the way you expect it to.. the ending is also like that and the next volume will probably tie into the Endgame event which I am.. ehh.. nvm this volume was not good compared to what it could have been given the artist it had and the freedom the writer had to choose whichever X-Men/mutant he wanted but oh well.

[Chris Lemmerman]

Ultimate Wolverine moves into the same kind of breakneck pace as Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimates, with Endgame on the horizon. That means there's a lot going on very quickly, and not a lot of time to deal with the vast amount of characters Logan's suddenly involved with, which is a shame.

What we do get though, is fun. I'd have liked to be able to slow down and take a breather, but that's not the point of this book, and definitely not the energy that the Ultimate Universe has - with the Maker's clock counting down every month, everything is important and everything is fast. There are at least two moments that made me go :O at how unexpected they were, but they make sense in context, even if they're kinda final in their execution.

Given how this volume ends, I thought that could have been the end of the series - but with one arc left, running parallel with Endgame, I'm curious to see what the third stage of this book looks like. There's a big shift between the first and second volumes, and with the events that lead up to the final issue here, the final volume's gonna be something else entirely too.

[ShamNoop]

This series takes any goodwill or any form of interesting storytelling the first volume may have set up and just throws it all away.
This is probably a pretty good comic for people who don’t read a lot of Marvel and don’t really have high expectations for these Ultimate books, but I’ve read a lot of Marvel and I had if not expectations then at least a standard of quality and ambition that the other books set up. This is just a mediocre Wolverine comic that feels free to be even more annoyingly insistent on tragedy and misery than they usually are because the writer’s been given a lot of leeway with these characters in this alternate universe.
There’s so many decisions, especially in the last two issues, that just induce bewilderment and frustration in me. THAT’S what you’re doing? That was your plan for these characters, for this story? This what you’re setting up for the final arc?
This comic doesn’t work on a self-contained level and I can’t see how it’s going to tie in to the bigger picture at all in a meaningful or interesting way at this point.
At least the art is good.

[Joey Nardinelli]

This was fine. I feel like it will blur in my memories of other Logan comics given the same tone of internal monologuing and the tendency, like most Ultimates comics, to pretty indiscriminately kill off swaths of characters across a very few issues in close proximity. While a few significant things happen in this run, I’m left wondering why Dr Prostivich was featured so prominently in this run so far and how any of this is going to matter to the grand schemes of the Ultimates arc this time around. The most interesting portrayals, of Remy and Kitty being together and Jean being effectively lobotomized and Logan and Victor having a friendly bond, all get sort of subsumed quickly by the need to keep the narrative moving forward.

I certainly prefer a comic with momentum like this to one that twiddles many a thumb. I just…want the characters to feel like they’re mattering and growing and having interesting decisions within the storyline too.

[Fahim Ahmed]

Alas the Marvel editorial caught up to this one and wanted the creative team to “water it down” for the masses. What started as a mystery thriller became a regular comic book with Wolverine explaining his feelings in case the decompression-hating-80-IQ-regular-comic-book-readers can understand wtf they’re looking at. This one stung because of what is clearly a betrayal of the original intent set in the first 6 issues. That said did have its moments which is why it’s get 3 stars instead of 1. Despite the comic book-y monologues and exposition dialogue, the pivotal action sequences were excellent and Alessandro Capuccio’s killed it despite the severely inferior script. Not every comic had to be a 20 min long read ffs let the medium do something different for a change

[Ángel Javier]

Ni fu ni fa. Peor que el primer volumen, que tampoco era para tirar cohetes. Parece como si a los autores les hubieran obligado a pisar el acelerador antes de que tuvieran todo preparado, y así, por ejemplo, se despachan a Rojo Omega fuera de cámara, que tiene narices, y el reparto prácticamente al completo es masacrado en un par de páginas, sin muchas ceremonias, y sin tampoco explicar cómo los malos pueden hacer una bomba con el cerebro de Fénix sin cargarse a Fénix... en fin, para lectores poco exigentes, o para los que ya no esperamos mucho de Marvel, que creo que somos mayoría, aunque la línea Ultimate sí que se merece algo mejor que esta irregular saga. ¿El dibujo? Pues aplíquese lo mismo que para el guion...

[Charley Isaacs]

This book jumps between great to fine a lot. It feels like there’s a lot of death out of nowhere just to be “dark”. And some of it does feel impactful.

The beginning I loved because we moved away from the first issue of pure Wolverine aura farming to a cool complex story and by the end we revert back.

Idk some really fun moments but the way they drew action was confusing a lot of the times and the quality just never felt consistent.

Also holy shit why did we only get one issue of Angel he was so fucking awesome justice for Ultimate Angel

[FrontalNerdaty]

The second half of the Ultimate universe Wolverine really keeps up with the ‘no one is safe’ aspect of this new take on an ultimate universe. So much death and carnage comes at you thick and fast that it often packs quite a punch. The world in which the X-Men operate is unrelentingly grim but the Winter Soldier aka Wolverine does remain ever ready to roll with it. The cameos and reintroductions to established characters are fun and the art, bar one issue, is good throughout.

[Eric]

Loving this underground, minimalist take on Wolverine. He's more physiologically messed up than 616 but he monologues a lot less. Alessandro Cappucchio's art is an MVP here, giving this series that scrappy, rebellious vibe. Alex Lins fills in for an issue and it's not bad per se, it just doesn't have the same atmosphere. I'm not sad that most of the X-Men aren't the stars here, there's 17+ ongoings out there for that. I just want to read about Ult-Wolvey getting some revenge.

[Rylan]

they kinda lost me with this one, the first volume i felt was amazing but this one was rushed and lost a lot of what made the first volume special. this book would have easily benefited from being apart of the initial line of books because it fall under the weight of the time constraints these books have been given for endgame.

[Charles Korb]

Ultimate wolverine is a weird story.

This volume is definitely better than the first one but it is bad in a different, subtler way. Cool an interesting things happen but the script and the art conspire to make them feel a lot less cool than I feel like they could have been.

[Craig]

The first volume was at least interesting, with the way it re-shuffled characters and alliances. This is just a mess, burning everything down. And for what? This is not a good story. And the artwork is just a mess--it should be loads better for what is a flagship title. Or maybe this isn't? Blah...

[Sesana]

It's a little rushed towards the end, probably because this entire universe is on a timer. I wish that Wolverine had been given a little more time to sit in what he'd done as the Winter Soldier before the bottom dropped out.

[Alexxxxxx]

What bothers me is that there was so much potential for a compelling story especially since they were using the groundwork of a different Logan and the use of the physics as like a kind of mind control and all the other ideas that they set up but instead they just went the generic route…

[Dave]

The pace picks up significantly in this second volume in a way that I'm not sure 100 percent worked, but this is still full of all of the same fresh and fun takes on characters and situations that made the first volume so enjoyable. It's also got the same exciting mash up of action and espionage.

[Kamen Rider Ben]

Darte cuenta que no te daba tiempo de cerrar todas las tramas así que explotar a todos tus secundarios en una sola escena es un movimiento magistral, esperemos que el sacrificio haya valido la pena de caras al final

[Nunya]

Fuck the Maker, this really is the most evil timeline.

[Chad]

This was OK. It's super compressed. Wolverine is now part of the Opposition fighting the Rasputins. It all goes how you expect with no surprises. The most I can say about it is "Meh".

[Ushnav Shroff]

Such a beautifully written arc. The artwork is on another level, honestly.

[Paul]

2.1 stars

[Jason]

4
Good, solid Wolverine stories. But not as good as the first volume.

And the payoff of the main conflict this has been building up to was fine. But only just fine.

[Evan Horad]

This story has alot of highs and lows but overall I really like it.