Dec. 25th, 2021
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What is it about Wolverine that you love so much?
Well, as a squat, smelly, grumpy, hairy, cigar-chomping, whiskey-swigging loner who lives in the frozen North, it doesn't take too much effort to occupy that imaginative space.
-- Ben Percy
With X Lives/X Deaths of Wolverine coming up, I felt we should look at Percy's Wolverine book; specifically, how he characterizes Logan. Which is basically "What if Mike Hammer had adamantium claws." (Or perhaps it's more the Continental Op?) Basically, a lot of the book toys with cynical detective and film noir conventions, no moreso than the last issue, which was brilliantly illustrated by Javier Fernandez.
It's about Logan fighting a whale that's been mutated by one of Krakoa's tumors.
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