Wolverine #1 - "Rogue Logan, Part 1"

[arbre_rieur]

"I've been busily blocking some folk who reacted to Wolverine with great annoyance. The ones who were impolite, that is. . . . I remember my own fan rage, as a teenager, and how it was genuinely an expression of love. But one should grow out of it." -- Paul Cornell on Twitter, about the book's new direction

"Season 2" of Cornell's Wolverine run commences. kojiro already posted a few pages; here are three more.

Comments

[seisachtheia]

"ow". Heh. I'm easy, but that made me laugh.

[donnblake]

Aw, now that he hasn't got a healing factor, Logan can reconcile with Scott and they can cohost a sweet shindig (or maybe even a hootenanny!)

[crinos]

Okay, old Logan with a bushy beard and mustache is adorable to me.

But, didn't he turn evil or something? I is confuzzled.

[espanolbot]

I think that it's an elaborate plan by Logan. That or he's made a deal with someone to get his healing factor back. Which seems a bit weak, really, if that's the case.

[shadowpsykie]

That or he's made a deal with someone to get his healing factor back

wait what?

[jetpack_monkey]

Logan dreams of his perfect wedding to Scott. Aw....

[viridian5]

Yeah, I couldn't think of any other way to interpret that panel either.

[scelestus]

That's EXACTLY what I thought when I saw that panel!

[lieut_kettch]

It ain't subtext if it ain't subtle!

[violetclm.livejournal.com]

Why is Ororo hunched over like that in the third panel? Isn't she weather-resistant?

[selke]

Thank you for pointing that out. That kind of irked me.

[cainofdreaming]

Maybe she just doesn't feel like getting a fever? Because that's basically how they explained her weather-resistance, the colder it is the higher her body temperature becomes.

[silicondream]

Oh man, Logan's inventing his own gunblade on the cover. I can't wait til he shoots someone and stabs them simultaneously.

[shingi70]

Why does Logan need a gun? I thought he was some master fighter and a samurai. Wouldn't just using a Sword and hand to hand be easier than having guns.

[donnblake]

I imagine that a lot of his idiosyncratic fighting style has always been based around the fact that he could afford to soak a lot of damage in order to get into an advantageous position. At least until he relearns fighting in such a way that doesn't involve disarming the other guy by having him stab you through the heart, a gun makes a good stand in.

[filthysize]

There was a comic that commented on this, I wish I remember which. Basically Logan's sensei facepalms and says along the lines of how Logan's expertly trained in dozens of martial arts and knows how to take someone down without even getting touched, but when a fight starts all his training go out the window and he just charges straight ahead like a bull. His healing factor has always been an impediment to his fighting skills.

[cainofdreaming]

And he bends his knees. Tsk.

[auggie18]

Rogue Logan. Rogan?

[dr_archeville]

Logue?

[junipepper]

Do people think the loss of the healing factor is really going to be permanent?

[doctor_spanky]

Do people think anything in comics is really going to be permanent?

I sort of think that's beside the point. Cornell's doing a good job with this story and taking Logan to a pretty interesting place -- sure we all know the next writer will undo everything, but you can still appreciate it as a piece of good storytelling (unlike Superior Spider-Man)

[thatnickguy]

It's the same as Superior Spider-Man: of course not. But that doesn't mean it couldn't be a good story for now.

Of course, that's coming from someone who can think rationally. Raging fanboys are different.

[junipepper]

It is a good story, unlike SpOck IMO. It's a genuinely new place to take the character, and opens up a lot of possibilities for his personal journey. But I have mixed feelings about him staying this way. I don't have a deep emotional connection with Marvel like I do with DC; I'm fine with riding it out wherever it's going. I'm just interested in what folks think about it.

[selke]

"Ow." That's kind of adorable.

[leoboiko]

"You need to learn to physically hurt people you like." "Oh, that? No prob, I'm already an expert!" BLAM BLAM BLAM