On first glance, the cover seems like a classicUltimate Marvelinversion.
Wolverine and Colossus are pals, right?
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The two couldnt be more different in their first interaction.
Colossus finds Xaviers offer flattering, and only pauses to discuss the possibility of leaving Russia with his parents.
Those differences set the stage for the clash of personalities in early X-Men comics.
And yet, more often than not, the kind-hearted Colossus rolls with Wolverines outbursts.
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Yet, Marvel Comics being Marvel Comics, writers still found ways to pit the two against one another.
Colossus and Wolverine dont come to blows in that issue.
However, fans got to finally see the two fight it out in alternate realities.
More recently,Wolverine: RevengebyJonathan Hickmanand Greg Capullo went all the way.
The quartet capture Wolverine,Captain America, and the Winter Soldier, leaving them for dead.
Of course, Wolverine survives and makes his way toward bloody revenge, as promised by the series title.
The clash is titanic as expected, finally paying off the years of tension between the two X-Men.
In this rebooted world, Colossus rules over the Eurasian Republic alongside his sister Magik and Omega Red.
Colossus dismisses Prostovichs jargon with a more direct approach.
I know how to handle creatures like this.
It is not with verbal commands, he declares.
He grabs Wolverine by the throat and lifts the Canadian into the air.
It is with violence.
The truly shocking part comes when Colossus tosses Wolverine away.
Its not the speed or brutality with which he throws Wolverine thats shocking.
Readers recognize exactly what Colossus is doing, hes throwing Wolverine in a Fastball Special.
Ultimate Wolverine #2 is available on Feb. 19.
