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from a len wein interview;
sanderson: now, before the new x-men series began, you already created wolverine. was that done with the intention of putting him in the book later?
wein: mm-hm. if it came to be. i figured i'd cover myself on the off chance we did do a new book, and we needed other characters. actually, the name "wolverine" was roy (thomas)'s suggestion: he suggested "do a character called wolverine", gave him to me to create for the hulk (#181-182) , and most of the rest of the details as to who and what he was were my own. so i decided to make him a teen-age mutant, to be one of the new x-men if it came to pass.
sanderson: chris claremont said in his interview that he thought you intended that wolverines claws came out of his gloves and not his hands.
wein: absolutely.
sanderson: the claws were not part of him.
wein: nope. he had no adamantium skeleton, he had nothing. he was a mutant only in terms of his ferocity and his animal senses. he was a hunter and tracker and incredibly resilient. he was able to get the stuff kicked out of him by the hulk and still be able to get back on his feet.
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but, i have to say that i prefer the claws as implants rather than bone. i always thought of his "healing factor as his ONLY mutant ability, and his senses, strength etc deriving from this "cellular regeneration", sort of kicking his metabolism into high gear. implants just makes more sense to me than a guy to whom nature gave big shafts of bone that come flying out of the backs of his hands. i know its a comic book , but willing suspension of disbelief only gets me so far.
thats actually around the time i stopped reading (not because of that, just a coincidence). was the bone thing a surprise to logan, or was he supposed to have known this all along? i seem to remember him saying that the claws were given to him. sorry if that question was answered in a previous posting.
as for his hair, he doesnt seem like the kind of guy to spend too much time in front of the mirror with a blow dryer and hair gel. i guess he could always cut it, if he wanted, y'know? get a crew cut. check this out. in 1985 there was this one-shot thing called "heroes for hope" the proceeds of which were supposedly going toward famine releif. theres a part where this entity is making wolverine hallucinate:
"total darkness...and the scent of his own unnatural fear. he sinks to his knees...wolverene. he rises...a half naked logan, no longer the half-beast-thing. hair normal; no claws; no uniform; a normal man. naked and vulnerable. bewildered, he looks around...fascinated by his own body; human for the first time in his memory."
i know the issue doesnt take place in regular x-men continuity, and the 3 pages upon which the sequence takes place are acually scripted by harlan ellison, i just thought it was interesting. maybe another mutant ability is hair that defies gravity. |
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