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Wolverine in The Washington Post

Ellis

11:13 / 05.09.01

Here

quote:

A Man Of Mystery Unmasked For the Market

To comic book readers, a character's origin is both gospel and doctrine. Backstory is the reason they believe and the guideline for faith: Consider the nerdy teenager who gets bitten by a radioactive spider, which makes him something better than he is, and voila, you have Spider-Man.

But what about the superhero with no origin?

That would be Wolverine, one of Marvel Comics' most popular and best-selling characters, who seems to have particular appeal among adult male readers, many of whom glommed onto his mutant angst when they were teenagers.

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Fucking abyssmal article, makes the fans look like dorks, reads more like an advert wrtten by a child:

"Wolverine has had phases of goodness and badness. He's been to outer space, he's run around with Japanese ninja, he's run naked and wild in the snowy woods."

Sax

13:09 / 05.09.01

I thought it was pretty balanced, focused, and in-depth for a mainstream media piece, actually.

DaveBCooper

14:17 / 05.09.01

I'm with Sax on this one; no more ropey journalism than you might see in most articles, and at least it wasn't headed 'Biff ! Bam ! Pow !' or something like that.

Then again, the reliance on quotes from Joe Q and Bill J does kind of suggest a lot of it came from press releases... but as I say, not unusual in itself.

DBC

Ellis

11:41 / 06.09.01

And guess who wasted his money on it?

DaveBCooper

11:43 / 06.09.01

Whilst I suspect that there could well be a thread on this later, your comment begs the questions :

Not much good then, Ellis ? Anything in particular ?

DBC

Ellis

13:14 / 06.09.01

What Haus, you didn't read the issue where Wolverine told Jubilee about his love for Walt Whitman before writting a sonnet about stabbing people?

For shame!

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Ronald Thomas Clontle

13:31 / 06.09.01

SPOILER!

and it turns out that his name is James.

deletia

13:37 / 06.09.01

These claws I use to cause you fatal harm,
Incarnadine with blood and gory slime,
Don't ask me how I got them in my arm
Your guess, I fear, would be as good as mine.

I'm Logan, Wolverine, "Patch", Weapon X,
A tough - yet tender - magnet for the chicks.
And yet I never seem to get much sex,
Although I flirt with Famke at the flicks.

And had you not just breathed your sorry last,
Torn, cut and ripped, the whole claw enchilada
You’d have a chance to learn about my past
Thanks to the desperation of Quesada.

My childhood friends, my family and lovers,
And issue one will have a dozen covers.

Jack The Bodiless

16:41 / 06.09.01

So it's shit then?

Higher than the sun :)

18:08 / 08.09.01

Weeeel shits a bit strong.
It's setting up the storyline and theres not much action, also it seems to be riping off the whole "Onebeutifullgirl2boysoneaweakingwith powerandmoneytheotherthesonofaevilman"
What was the name of the sodding book? Tom midnight garden? The secret garnen? something like that.
Its a bit Dickensian to me. But I liked it.

Sebastian

19:44 / 20.05.02

Hey, I didn't wanted to open a new thread for this, especially considering, well, whatever, I just wanted to share, and some of you will like this recent depiction of the canuckle head here.

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