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YES. If I could wash reading those books out of my mind, I would.
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What?
This is the X-Men. Where everyone on the team has died at least once and been resurrected.
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I also like that quote b/c the number of characters in comics whose deaths meant The End is dwarfed by the number of characters in comics whose deaths meant maybe a month or two out of circulation.
And sure, nobody's been able to do it in the normal continuity, but killing Wolverine in some potential future or alternate past is practically a cliche. Actually, not practically. But then, I haven't been reading Marvel lately so maybe it's not as common as it was during the nineties.
09/11/09
Sometimes I think there is some backlash because Wolvie's so popular, which is why maybe Claremont wanted to kill him.
I'll just be happy if the movies get better. I haven't seen the first, and I'm on the fence whether I ever should, from what I've heard.
09/11/09
If that doesn't cause spams of Nerd Rage, then maybe you can sit through Wolverine:Origins. I know I couldn't.
09/11/09
Perplexing and oddly satisfying, so I say Nerd Rage=Satiated.
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04/26/09
The writing is a tro cious. Terrible drek. But the artwork is stunningly beautiful loose watercolor/gouache, and Marcel Duchamp is the villain! Really worth it just for looks.
04/29/09
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They never really "decided" to write Origin so much as someone happened to realize that with the X-Men hitting the silver screen, it was only a matter of time before some director decided to tell Wolverine's origin story, and they damned well weren't going to let it be established by anything that was not a comic book. So in the grand scheme of things, it's not so much that they came up with a story that was so great that they couldn't resist telling it, but that they felt a compelling need to come up with something _first_.
That being said, I actually thought it worked pretty well.
04/27/09
I also liked how they made his powers develop in Origin: he was a sickly child as his healing factor basically built up immunity and that it healed his psyche as well, explaining why he had no memory of his tragic past. That worked a hell of a lot better than Larry Hama's Shiva storyline and all those memory implants. Damned if I knew what Wolverine 50 through, say, 75 were about. It was confusing as hell.
However, I know after House of M they made a big deal about him remembering his past, but wasn't there some Russian mutant (not Omega Red) he fought somewhere during Wolverine 60-70 that revealed his memories to him? Marvel dropped that pretty quickly. I think it was around issue 67 or 68, somewhere in there.
04/27/09
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The dialogue/monologue boxes specifically mention "there's an excess drain at ... hand and wrist." They don't know why it's happening. The claws were already there.
04/28/09
The professor says, "What else do I not know about experiment X?"
Right when they're talking about the excess adamantium drain. The excess drain is an accidental result of the experiment, which is why they don't know about it--but they WOULD have known if he had claws. They've got his medical history, they can do x-rays.
Later on, when the professor and Cornelius are talking to each other, Cornelius says that the claws are "pure adamantium," not bone claws bonded with adamantium--I am pretty sure that the implication here is that Logan's body made the claws out of adamantium when they gave it to him. Weapon X didn't give him the claws on purpose, but it was specifically the adamantium experiment that yielded them.
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