Wolverine and Kitty Pryde #4
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIssue #4 sits at the dramatic fulcrum of Chris Claremont's five-part 2025 series, which was conceived expressly to fill one of the most discussed continuity gaps in classic X-Men history — the unshown stretch of time between the end of the 1984–85 Kitty Pryde and Wolverine miniseries and the duo's return to the X-Men in Uncanny X-Men #192. By positioning Domina's full origin reveal and her existential threat to Shadowcat here in the penultimate chapter, the issue functions as the narrative engine that, per editor Mark Basso's stated intent, will ultimately recontextualize how readers experience Uncanny X-Men #192 itself. The issue also continues Claremont's decades-long project of deepening Kitty Pryde's emotional biography — her maturation from the junior X-Man who nearly lost herself to Ogun into the fully-formed Shadowcat — by staging a crisis in which neither her powers nor her mentor's adamantium claws are enough, forcing Carmen Pryde into an unexpected moral spotlight.
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The 2025 Wolverine and Kitty Pryde series was announced in January 2025 as a five-issue limited run pairing original *Kitty Pryde and Wolverine* (1984–85) writer Chris Claremont with artist Damian Couceiro, known for his work on *X-Men Unlimited* and *Groot*, with covers by veteran X-Men artist Alan Davis. Claremont himself described the project as the story of what happens between the conclusion of the original miniseries and the pair's return home to rejoin the X-Men — a gap he had left open for roughly forty years. Editor Mark Basso at Marvel shaped the editorial mandate around two concrete dangling questions from classic continuity: why Kitty's demeanor changed so markedly before *Uncanny X-Men* #192, and what ultimately became of her father Carmen Pryde.
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- Released July 9, 2025 (cover date: September 2025); issue #4 of a five-issue limited series.
- Written by Chris Claremont; interior art by Damian Couceiro; cover art and inks by Alan Davis with colors by Matt Hollingsworth; edited by Mark Basso.
- Issue #4 reveals the full identity and secret origin of Domina, the villain who commands the Mini-Sentinels — a threat introduced in the preceding issues and whose defeat carries direct consequences for Shadowcat's survival.
- Carmen Pryde (Kitty's father) plays an active role in the issue's central crisis, continuing his prominent subplot across the series in which his entanglement in events in Japan is finally addressed after decades of unexplained continuity.
- Supporting cast in the issue includes Mariko Yashida, Yukio, and Amiko Kobayashi — characters central to Wolverine's Japan-based personal world, all present because the series is set at Mariko's home.
- The series is a direct narrative sequel to *Kitty Pryde and Wolverine* (1984–85, written by Claremont with art by Al Milgrom) — the miniseries in which Kitty adopted the codename Shadowcat and forged her mentor-student bond with Logan.
- Per Marvel's series solicitation, the events of this five-issue series are specifically designed to change the way readers interpret *Uncanny X-Men* #192, the issue in which Wolverine and Kitty returned to the team following their Japan adventure.
- The complete five-issue series (issues #1–5) is being collected in a trade paperback, per Penguin Random House's catalog listing for the collected edition.
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