28 Jun, 2007
FU-KUNG: Jubilee - Back In A Big Way
By: Jon Haehnle
When I last saw Jubilation Lee (in Wolverine: Origins, #7 I believe), she was near-death, with a huge girder or whatever all up in her guts. The fact that artist Steve Dillon makes her would-be rescuer Wolverine look like he was leaning on the stupid thing and embedding it that much deeper wasn’t cool, even if Wolvie did proceed to beg Dum Dum Dugan to please save her. The fact that the Powers That Be had already de-powered her made her somewhat expendable already, but to top it off Marvel had solicited this book with a promise that “A beloved, long-time Marvel character” would die. Naturally I was more than a little worried for Jubes.
So when the next issue of Origin came out I hurriedly flipped through it to find out dear Jubilee’s fate — only to find her not mentioned at all. Which was a bit of a WTF moment for me. (Actually it was more than a moment because I kept flipping through the subsequent issues to see if writer Daniel Way would ever decide to show me whether or not she was dead — but of course he did not). Around this same time Jubilee did appear in Civil War: Front Line talking to reporter Sally Floyd about being a de-powered disenfranchised mutant, so that might’ve meant she lived. But I really wasn’t sure if Front Line was before or after the Girder In The Gut.
(Note: I am currently similary confused by Tony Stark. He is either the head of SHIELD or has been turned into an Ultron fembot, I don’t know which). Lacking any confirmation one way or the other in Origins, I didn’t even know if Jubes was dead or alive.
At any rate, jumping innumerable months to the present, I was quite happy to see Jubilee pop up (seemingly out of nowhere, to me at least) in a certain Marvel book out this week.
Without spoiling things too much, it appears Jubilee has gotten some enhancements since we last saw her :O
