So Gabby has finally got himself a superhero title, and it is incredibly apt:
While Tom Taylor’s All-New Wolverine has a lot of amazing parts, Gabby has been one of its best, however, by issue #28, she has finally landed herself a codename.
Warning: Spoilers ahead for All-New Wolverine #28 and if you don’t want to get things spoiled then go back now.
After Laura performed a sudden surgery on Daken onboard their jet, Gabby met Danger, the sentient Danger Room. Gabby felt envious of her complete one-word name Schtick and came to the conclusion that it was time for her to get her own superhero title. Daken suggests Honey Badger, and when Gabby asked the logic, he said: “Because you’re sweet and you have claws.”
Gabby exclaims, “That’s…Perfect!” and then the next panel showed several iconic Wolverine covers from previous years superimposed with Honey Badger in place of Logan. This moment is as delightful as Gabby and you can check out the image below:
The comic book’s writer Tom Taylor revealed the news to fans on social media.”I held off to give people time to read it, but I’m very happy to say that Gabby from #AllNewWolverine is now known as Honey Badger! I wanted to highlight just what an incredible job Juann Cabal did illustrating this moment…”
He gave the credit to artist Juann Cabal for creating the amazing comics on Gabby and shared some more details.
“Juann Cabal took it upon himself to fill the background with iconic Wolverine covers… and replace Wolverine with Honey Badger,” Taylor said.”And he did every cover in the style of the original artist – including lettering. Like here, from Wolverine’s first-ever appearance. But, that’s not all. He also then added extra easter eggs to the backgrounds of these small images that are already in the background. Here he replaced Rogue with Honey Badger’s pet, Jonathan the Actual Wolverine. In the previous cover, ‘Wendigo’ was replaced with ‘homework.'”
Taylor went on to hint about what lies in store for Honey Badger, Wolverine, and the team.
“Next up for Wolverine and Honey Badger – they’re joining Jean Grey in our X-Men: Red team in February,” Taylor said. ”And their adventures can be read in our current ‘Orphans of X’ arc running in All-New Wolverine. It’s Illustrated by Juann Cabal… so make sure you study the backgrounds.”
Tom Taylor has written the All-New Wolverine with art done by Juann Cabal and a cover design by Elizabeth Torque. The All-New Wolverine #28 is available in comic book stores now.
