The following contains spoilers from Wolverine #34, on sale now from Marvel Comics.
Wolverine's hunt for Beast has run into a slight snag in Wolverine #34 (by Benjamin Percy, Juan Jose Ryp, Frank D'Armata, and VC's Cory Petit). During the issue, readers discovered that Beast has made a mistake regarding his Wolverine clone army: he didn't turn off their healing factor.
As the issue revealed, their healing factors were beginning to kick in, undoing the mental limitations Beast bred them with. In all likelihood, the clones will turn on Beast for their enslavement. In an ironic twist, this might help Wolverine with something other than taking down Beast for good. Another enemy of Wolverine's, Sabretooth, is out there with an army of his own. Beast's blunder might end up giving Wolverine the edge he needs to stop his old nemesis.
Beast's Biggest Blunder
Part of the reason Wolverine wants Beast dead so badly is that his old friend used him as a feral puppet, turning him into an assassin to suit Beast's agenda. Beast apparently didn't learn how difficult it is to keep any Wolverine on a leash, as he ended up making a cloned army of him to use as weapons against the enemies of Krakoa. The clones are feral, deliberately bred with low intellect, but Beast underestimated the effectiveness of their healing factors. When they kick in, their intelligence quickly increases to near-normal levels. Many of them will likely gain full sentience around the same time and take out their rage upon Beast.
At this point, no one would truly mourn that, but what becomes of the clones after is the more interesting thing to consider. They were made to be soldiers. For all the cruelty Beast's machinations have wrought, he at least gave them purpose. Without Beast, the clones would have nothing.
This is where Logan comes in. Wolverine already has experience dealing with his wayward clones, and given his recent experiences being Beast's puppet, he will likely be able to sympathize with them. He's already demonstrated mercy by taking two alive instead of killing them outright. He knows they are living beings who did not ask for this, and now that he knows they are becoming intelligent, he might try to help them find a place in this world.
An Army of Wolverines Can Take On an Army of Sabretooths
What Wolverine doesn't know at the moment is that the existence of the clones actually provides him with a perfect answer to the latest actions of his old rival, Sabretooth. In Sabretooth and the Exiles #5 (by Victor LaValle, Leonard Kirk, Rain Beredo, and VC's Cory Petit), Sabretooth joined a small army of alternate versions of himself, and directed them towards Krakoa to cause trouble. One Sabretooth is bad enough, but multiple is a catastrophe, especially when the world thinks Sabretooth has been safely imprisoned all this time.
If Wolverine can manage to get the clones on his side, then he has the perfect army to take on Sabretooth's. Logan's army has all of his abilities and skills, and plenty of experience thwarting Sabretooths. Of course, this all depends on how many of the clones survive turning on Beast. He has shown to be weary of betrayal, but his underestimation of Wolverine might mean he never sees the clone army coming, something that can hopefully be replicated with Sabretooth.