I wish you reviewed more often, like the old days, Miss DuPont.

Could have used some titty.

Now that's good humor.

Fuck you Rupert Murdoch and your hot piece-of-ass Chinese wife!

If I hear that, fuck them. I'm putting my foot down... if I know that I have a 90% chance of hating a movie, there is no way that I'm wasting time or money going to see it.

Great review by the way, best one I've seen on this site in a long time.

Also...unless the Origins book had Sabretooth as his fucking brother and Deadpool with laser eyes...

Christ, I just reminded myself that Liefeld created Deadpool. I just threw up in my mouth a little. We got the Liefeld version of a Wolverine movie. FUCK.

shit.

They might as well let someone control him using a wireless Xbox 360 controller... Hell, I would find that more believable!!! Then they could tie it into the Wolverine Origins videogame and sell more copies of that! FFFFUUUUUCK!

BWahahahahahahahahahaha!

I tip my hat to you, miss.

Every time I read this particular piece of "reasoning", I'm reminded that exactly half the world's population have an IQ at or below 100.

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Then again, instead of my prediction being correct,maybe you noticed it before the fact and reappeared exactly then(now)simply to amuse/toy with me. God knows it wouldn't be the first time.

That said, I believe I'll hold off on reading your review until I see the movie Sunday or Monday evening. So, are you ever going to leap across the chasm of your reticence and become a professional film critic, or are you still doofing around with that comic book endeavor? Do tell.

Wolverine just isn't that cool. He's one-dimensional, impervious to all real drama, and just silly.

I'm sure "Wolverine: Whatever It's Called" will make lots of money off geeks and breeders, but I'm going to skip it.

And you're not funny. Please join your twin sister Script Girl, and see your flat, talentless ass out the door.

Notr to mention the fact that the word has a perfectly well known English version, so there's no reason to use the German. It's like "Look at me everybody, I know a German word. I'll teach you what it means."

Oh & Wolverine's name wasn't Jimmy Logan in the movie. But feel free to conduct interviews with your crack addict porn star friends. & the Lesbian film-maker! Or whatever the fuck she is.

Yours sincerely, Dark Shite. Heterosexual TB'er.

Or someone who makes standard films but feels the need to constantly remind people that she spends her free time way down in Wookie town?

Or both? Please tell me Alexandra, I'm so confused. Maybe because I don't move in the kinda circles where people shit on a toothbrush & sell it as a masterpiece.

Yours sincerely, The Dark Knight. Heterosexual Tb'er, Ladies man.

Truth is, she just looks good compared to the rest of the writers on this site.

Because she can spell.

He is as as mutant born in 1845 to a rich family who turns out to be immortal; fought in WWI, WWII, Korea and even Viet Nam apparently; trained as a Samurai and a ninja; is a master of martial arts; became a spy for a super-team called Weapon X; had adamantium bonded on his bones and claws (bone claws I might remind you); became a savage, wild animal in the woods of the Canada; becomes a spy and super-hero for Canada; then joins the X-Men where he regains his humanity; then joins the Avengers; happens to have a son who has the same powers as him and and happens to be having a feud with another feral, immortal mutant who may or may not be his half brother.

Talk about overkill. Wolverine is literally has more life experience than Batman, Captain America, Nick Fury, the Punisher, Daredevil, Shang-Chi, Jonah Hex, Tarzan and James Bond all put together.

IMO the entire 100+ years old thing is such a drawback for his character, and as the years past it will become an even greater drawback that makes him even more ridiculous. Originally he was intended to be older than the other X-Men; then he was intended by Byrne and Claremont to have been a WWII vet (which at that time was only about 35 years ago so he would have been in his 50s), then someone said "hey, he should of fought in WWI"; then someone else said "Wouldn't it be cool if he fought in the Spanish American War or even the Civil War"; until finally someone said "Hey lets say he was born in 1845 so he is over 150 years old now! Wouldn’t that be cool?”

The other problem is by saying he is involved in these historical events means that as Marvel’s sliding time scale goes on, and the years pass and other characters maybe only age a year or two, Wolverine will progressively get older. In a years Spider-Man might be only 27, but Wolverine will be 164 years old, and in 10 years Spider-Man might be 28 but Wolverine will be 174 years old.

And yet here is a character with not nearly the maturity or level headiness of his age. I would imagine that a 174 year old man would finally put his demons to rest or figure out how to operate, but Wolverine is still the same rough and tumble jerk who once in awhile loses himself to his berserk rage. And yeah, you could argue he has lack of self-control because of the memory loss, but than wouldn’t he also loose all of his skills he has gathered over the years? He seems to still possess nearly every damn skill under the sun (save for self-control).

The thing is, I don’t dislike Wolverine. I loved him as a kid, but as more and more writers added things to his past he turned into this Christmas tree with too many ornaments – the branches sag and it just looks clustered and ugly now. I was hoping that at least the Wolverine movie would do what Nolan did with Batman and exorcise a lot of the excess from the character and just focus on the essential elements, but apparently that was not the case.

I get your point about Liam Neeson in Taken, but I wouldn't wanna see Liam Neeson in Taken 2: Right up the arse.

I wonder how he found it in time for X-Men? Maybe he bumped into some more old people who lived just long enough to give him stuff.

I'm probably wrong. I don't really care much.

Sure, there where mutants before Hiroshima (Apocalypse of course, and Magneto and even Prof. X if you go by the old origin that he fought in Korea) but they were very rare and the idea was that background radiation caused them to be born that way, but the excessive radiation from nuclear testing, dropping the bomb, reactors and the depletion of the ozone layer was causing more and more mutants to be born each year, making it a possible threat that they would replaced humanity. Now it just seems to be something that "happens."

Personally I would love some writer to come along and have the balls to do the unthinkable - say that all of Wolverine's memories are fake - that he never was James Howlett and he never even served in WWII. I know a lot of the diehard Wolverine Fans would have a conniption, but to me it would be great if someone just said that "Logan, you used to just be some loser mutant who got into bar fights once in awhile and could heal real fast, and that is why we chose to make you into Weapon X. You were a nobody before we gave you those claws and adamantium bones. Oh, and by the way we lied about your age. You are really only 55 years old, and your mom was truck stop hooker and your dad was the town drunk. Any other questions?"

If there is only 198 mutants left, doesn't that just end the entire mutant persecution thing? Why would the world "fear and hate" the X-Men if they represent and defend only 198 people?

It is like the entire gay marriage/rights dilemma: you can be the biggest homophobe in the world, but if tomorrow there was only 198 homosexuals left in the world I think you would stop worrying about gay marriage eroding America or how the gays are trying to corrupt and convert our youth. It is like imagining a Jewish conspiracy if there are only 198 jews left in the world - not much of a sinister cabal to worry about.

AsimovLives, you're not wrong! I live in Japan, it's not just teenage girls, but grown women too. They love a bit of knob on knob manga! It's fucking weird.

The other character who comes to mind when I think of Wolverine is Violent Marv. Remember the line Dwight said about him? "If he had been born in a past era he would have been a gladiator and had women given to him" or something like that. That is how I imagine Wolverine; a man living in the wrong era, whose savage nature and anti-social tendencies make it hard for people to look at him as someone they should admire or someone who can follow the rules of civilization. That is why the entire commando thing from 1945-to-whenever-he-got-the-ad amantium never worked for me - if he has been trained to be a commando and spy all those years why is he so anti-social and unable to operate around other people? Commandos might be willing to kill, but they are far from beserkers.

On a planet full of normal mortal people, that would be more like 198 Homosexuals, all moving into your town, which up until that point, had a population of 2. Just you & your dad. & you both have moustaches & work in construction.

I mean the FF, most of the Avengers, Iron Man, DD, Hulk, Spider-Man, etc; none of these well known heroes are mutants. Plus, you've got SHIELD (or HAMMER know), Mandroids, Sentinels, Guardsmen and who knows how many other things to protect us. Plus thanks to the Avengers Initiative you've got a super hero team in every state.

All 198 super-powered homosexuals can move to my home town, but they will always be outnumbered by the super-powered straight people thanks to Decimation.

Or are they confused Homosexuals? Like Spiderman says "I'm not gay. I just like cock"..

???

I think I've lost track of the conversation now:-).

Fain: Yeah, I always laughed at that in Marvel. But I will ask, have you ever seen Warren Ellis newuniversal? I haven't really read it but there is a scene where Voight (sic) explains to Spitfire what the danger of these altered people are to the world and how they are different from just being mutated people. He gives an analogy between early humans and neanderthals. I have to say, it is the best description of why humanity would hate mutants I have ever read (similar arguments have been said before but I have never heard it so eloquently put)

AICN always means at sometime one or all TB will talk about homosexuality and cock!

Maybe we are all in denial?

And that's NOT a denial.

This is.

That's not late man, that's early!

I would have gone out tonight but I advanced a friend $1,300 for rent. I have a feeling it will take awhile before I see that money again.

I'd hire a hitman to get it back, but now I'm broke & he's nowhere to be seen! Being nice gets you nowhere.

Not to date myself, but I used to be a fan of the New Universe and used to collect Star Brand, DP7 and Psi-Force when I was a kid. I don't read as many comics as I used to, mostly because I freely admit that my preferences are for older style of comics (I guess I am a Jazz fan in a world of rock and roll).

Industry: No, I admit that the execution was great, and some of these Brubaker have just the right feel - remind me a lot of the Stern/Byrne and even the Englehart run where you don't know what is going to happen next. My problem is when I was growing up, I always assumed that Uncle Ben, Bucky, the Green Goblin and Jean Grey would stay dead for ever. Well, first Jean Grey came back (and then died again), then they brought back Osborn, and now we got Bucky back. That just makes us one step closer before Uncle Ben returns. NOOOOOO!

"First you take care of yourself before you take care of others."

She always told us that before she would share her kilo of white vader with us.

And my opinion (fwiw)?

Horrible piece of shit. Absolutely horrible.

So, he's his son right? Ok, I didn't know about that. & what does Daken mean anyway? I assumed it was Japanese, but according to the guys I just asked, it isn't.

Having said that, the Japanese are kinda coy about anything that shows their bad side. I once read the word for "fuck off" & asked someone & she said "I don't know what you mean." They hide it. So I'll endeavour to find out, one way or another! He sounds like a pretty great character!

Basically, Daken is a combination word & it isn't really used in normal cobversation. In fact, the people I asked about it couldn't gimme an answer until we sat down with a dictionary & worked it out.

Literally it's Da (roughly meaning a bad thing, as in the word "dame" which can mean stuff like "don't" or "no way") & Ken meaning dog. The simple translastion however is "Mongrel Dog".

So, Daken kinda means Mongrel.