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Marvel Short #40 – The Counter-Invaders (part 3)

Posted on July 13, 2022December 22, 2023 by phil.wrede
Along the Ukraine border, the X-Men Wolverine and Colossus mill around, enjoying the momentary quiet.
Colossus tells Wolverine that he needs to press pause on the story he's telling.
Colossus goes on to say that he sees an invading tank approaching.
Wolverine grins, and asks Colossus how his "throwing arm" is feeling today.
The tank turns its turret to aim at the X-Men.
Colossus hurls Wolverine across the landscape, performing their signature "fastball special" attack move.
The credits for the comic strip, citing the Unsplash users whose photographs were the background art, the ownership of Marvel by Disney, the creation of Marvel characters by actual human beings, and the figure photography/script/lettering by me, Phil Wrede.
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The third, and for now, final installment of the superheroes’ fight for Ukraine is here, and I figured there was no duo better suited to cap this little power fantasy exercise of mine than Colossus and Wolverine. Iron Man and Darkstar in the first entry fought the battle from the air, and Red Guardian and Sunfire split the difference in part two. The Fastball Special(TM) seemed the only ground-based tactic that could achieve victory, today!

Even though this is the last idea I have, at the moment, that doesn’t mean that the people suffering and fighting bravely are no longer in my thoughts. I wouldn’t call what’s going on there a war – I don’t know if anybody not named Vladimir Putin would – but I want to wrap my thoughts here with a quote from Bart Simpson: “There are no good wars, with the following exceptions: the American Revolution, World War II, and the Star Wars Trilogy.” We can disagree with the particulars of that statement, but I think the sentiment is mostly true.

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