Wolverine Just Found the Most Lawless Place in the Marvel Universe
Wolverine just stepped foot into the one part of the Marvel Universe that is even more lawless than Madripoor, and Logan fit right in.
WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Wolverine #14, available now from Marvel.
Madripoor has always been a country full of criminals. It’s the kind of place someone like Wolverine can thrive in with his grit and ferocity. But even he has to admit that, for the most part, Madripoor puts on a certain façade to draw people in, only to either be robbed blind or outright murdered.
But in Wolverine #14, by Benjamin Percy, Adam Kubert, Frank Martin, VC’s Cory Petit, Logan’s mission to hunt down some missing Shi’ar logic diamonds led him to the most lawless outpost of Madripoor, Truant’s Cove. And what he had to say about this cesspool of crime and villainy shed light on the relative merits of Madripoor.
Wolverine was sent to Madripoor to find out what happened to a massive shipment of missing logic diamonds following the events of the Hellfire Gala. Instead, he found the ship that was supposed to be carrying them torched, with corpses filling the cargo hold instead of logic diamonds. His hunt for any survivors led him to an Arakki pirate named Sevyr Blackmore, who had docked his ship in an outpost of Madripoor known as Truant’s Cove.
While leaving the Northern part of Madripoor Wolverine elaborated that, for the most part, Madripoor tried to keep up the appearance of being civilized. A person unwise enough to take a vacation there could rent a hotel, even if that stay might end up with their possessions and credit card information stolen. While this mask was ultimately a lure to some extent, it still gave the nation baseline respectability.
Truant’s Cove is nothing like that. It doesn’t put on a performance for outsiders; it is simply a bloodbath. In Truant’s Cove, the lawlessness of the nearby Madrippor is embraced as pleasure and brutality shamelessly take center stage.
This openly lawless cove strikes a noteworthy contrast to Madripoor, which clawed itself away from that sort of rampant chaos in order to become the country it is today. As much as Madripoor is a den of crime, it is dependent upon them having a steady influx of potential victims or clients who would hire whatever services they offered. To draw either in, Madripoor had to be more than a pirate’s den, it would need to have its own glitz and glamour to attract flies into its web.
Truant’s Cove on the other hand was the exact image Madripoor would want to avoid. That kind of Mad Max-esque lawlessness doesn’t inspire the potential for more profit, it just creates an incredibly unstable and unsafe environment. If this is true though, then Truant’s Cove may be a more clear look at what Madripoor was like before it began operating on an international level.
If Madrippor was truly meant to only be a land of lawlessness, then Truant’s Cove comes across as an independent attempt to maintain that freedom. Unfortunately for them, uncontrolled chaos is not a sustainable system. While it might make a convenient hiding spot for villains of all stripes, the anarchy of Truant’s Cove means that it can never be as influential as Madripoor, which thrives on organized chaos. While Logan only spends a short amount of time here, it almost certainly won’t be his last visit, especially as his more animlasitc side struggles to be tamed in an increasingly ordered world.
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