Wolverine and Kitty Pryde #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeWolverine and Kitty Pryde #2 (2025) is the second chapter of Chris Claremont's self-described 'interquel' — a five-issue limited series set in the continuity gap between the final panel of the 1984–85 Kitty Pryde and Wolverine mini-series and the duo's return to the X-Men in Uncanny X-Men #192. That forty-year-old gap had never been addressed in-canon, making the series — and each of its issues — a genuine piece of retroactive X-Men history authored by the writer who created it. Issue #2 introduces the Snow Samurai, a new supernatural antagonist whose appearance deepens the mythological relationship between Wolverine, Mariko Yashida, and Kitty Pryde, and a mysterious artifact connected to Mariko's family ties those three characters together in ways previously unseen. As a Claremont-penned addition to the foundational Japan arc that turned Kitty Pryde into Shadowcat, this issue carries the weight of both canonical expansion and character legacy.
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The broader series was announced on January 21, 2025, with Claremont describing it as the story of what happened between the close of the original mini-series and the characters' reappearance in Uncanny X-Men. Editor Mark Basso framed the project around two standing narrative mysteries: why Kitty's emotional state was so dramatically different upon returning to the X-Men, and what became of her father Carmen Pryde during that period. Damian Couceiro, whose prior Marvel work included X-Men Unlimited and Groot, was selected as interior artist, while veteran X-Men artist Alan Davis was brought on to provide covers across all five issues — a pairing designed to give the series a visual bridge between the classic Claremont era and the modern day. Issue #2 shipped on May 28, 2025, with a final-order cutoff of April 28, 2025.
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- Written by Chris Claremont; interior art by Damian Couceiro; colors by Carlos Lopez; letters by VC's Ariana Maher; cover art by Alan Davis (with Matt Hollingsworth as cover colorist); edited by Mark Basso.
- Released May 28, 2025 (cover-dated July 2025); 24 interior pages; rated T+; part two of a five-issue limited series.
- The issue introduces the Snow Samurai — a ghostly supernatural antagonist — marking that character's first appearance in Marvel continuity.
- Per the Marvel Database (Fandom), additional first appearances in this issue include the villain characters Kill, Getaway, and Snare, all new creations for this series.
- A mysterious artifact recovered during the Snow Samurai encounter is identified by Mariko as a long-held Yashida family heirloom; its figures depict Logan, Kitty, and Mariko in ancient Japanese attire — tying a paranormal shared past to their present.
- The series is canonically set between Kitty Pryde and Wolverine #6 (1985) and Uncanny X-Men #192, per an editor's note on the credits page, making it official retroactive Marvel continuity.
- Three variant covers were published for issue #2: the standard Alan Davis cover, a Nicoletta Baldari variant, and a 1:25 retailer incentive variant by Rickie Yagawa.
- The parent series directly continues from the 1984–85 Claremont/Milgrom Kitty Pryde and Wolverine limited series, which was itself the story that established Kitty's codename Shadowcat and her definitive costume — context that gives this issue its retroactive narrative weight.
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Reprinted in Wolverine & Kitty Pryde #[nn] (2025)
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