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WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Wolverine #1, by Benjamin Percy, Adam Kubert, Frank Martin, Viktor Bogdanovic, Matthew Wilson, VCs Cory Petit and Tom Muller, on sale now.

Wolverine always says he's the best there is at what he does, but is he the tastiest? The Order of X tried to find out in the premiere issue of the newest Wolverine series, downing a drug derived from Krakoan flowers and going full vampire on Logan and his teammates.

The comic quickly establishes the Order of X is a cult that, in contrast to some previous religious groups, doesn't hate mutants but, rather, idolizes them. The order's brand of worship does not involve contemplative prayer or charitable works, however. Instead, the members set their sights (and fangs) on consuming the blood of mutants in order to absorb their power.

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Wolverine and X-Force find that lesson out the hard way when they're teleported by Gateway into the middle of the cult's sermon. At first, thrilled to find such adoring fans, Quentin Quire offered himself up to the crowd clamoring to lay a hand on him. He failed to take note of the cultists consuming vials of "Pollen," a drug extracted from Krakoan flowers. As the adulation started to turn to aggravation, however, Quentin grew scared pretty quickly.

The Pollen the cultists consume is apparently at the heart of a growing drug problem, with a black-market presence and cartel involvement that has some of the government's biggest agencies investigating whether mutants are involved. Drug cartels' desire to get their hands on Krakoan drugs was already a plot point inNew Mutants, while harvesting Krakoa for new technologies has been the focus of more than one villain since the mutants founded their new nation there.

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The cultists' attempted cannibalism in Wolverine #1 proves thematically appropriate, as Wolverine quickly becomes entangled in a plot involving vampires that also crave mutant blood. More specifically, the vampires crave Wolverine's blood, in particular, and quite similar to the cultists, try to make a meal of the clawed X-Man. The connection between mutants (and Wolverine in particular) and vampires is not altogether new, either, asBlade vs. Wolverine most recently intertwined the two.

One of the infographics in the new comic helps identify the connection between vampiric blood and mutants, offering insight into why the cultists were craving such a macabre meal. Wolverine's blood identifies him as a sort of "cousin" to vampires, as their perpetually young and self-sustaining fluids serve as both a manufacturer and a vault. Their differences are shown in Wolverine's lack of vampiric virility and vampires' weakness to ultraviolet light.

More than just craving mutants, the vampires seem to crave Wolverine in particular. When he goes to Paris to investigate the cult, the vampires manage to get the upper hand on him, string him upside down and prepare to shove a tap into his neck. Luckily a local vampire slayer intervenes, cutting the meal short before everybody could get their fill. But that's not to say they were entirely unsuccessful.

The ending to the comic reveals that the vampires won't to be beaten so easily. Dracula himself steps forward, rejuvenated by Wolverine's blood and with a new immunity to sunlight that makes him stronger than ever before. The parallels between a cannibalistic cult craving mutants and voracious vampires hungering for Wolverine are far too great to not be connected. While the two stories were presented separately, their connections will only become more apparent as the tale unfolds.

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