Some of the best stories about Wolverine focus on the conflict between his animalism and humanity. The truth is, hes caught somewhere in between and having him come to terms with this makes for compelling reading. This is especially true in the issue Coyote Crossing, which sees Logan passing through a run-down border town on the Mexico border and coming face to face with some real depravity. While being tracked down by a DEA agent who has developed an obsession with unravelling the mystery surrounding 'The Wolverine', a long-haired Logan chances across a truck full of dead would-be migrants. This leads him to a gang of coyotes who are involved in human trafficking and sex slavery, offering up the perfect situation for him to enact his own form of justice against those responsible. He locks one of the coyotes in the back of the truck with all of the people that suffocated to death in the heat before showing a rare modicum of mercy calling the police on him. The other scumbags who were responsible dont receive the same kindness and it is implied that they have both met with brutal ends at Logans weaponized hands. This story has the double whammy of being a highly entertaining vengeance thriller and also happening to be very topical in the current political climate. Whether Fox want to use Wolverine III as a platform to speak about this is questionable, but if theyre looking for suitable villains to feel Logans wrath, there are few more deserving of his claws than people smugglers.
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