Wolverine #19: "The Old Mutant and the Sea"

[alliterator]

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.

Comments

[scorntx]

Even Sam Wilson as Captain America?

(Though in instances such as this, we do have the Muntz Principle:
"If you hadn't done it, someone else would have.")

[tinygaylaura]

Was it Remender who made Sam become Cap?

For some reason I thought that was Nick Spencer so I had that down as one of the three good ideas he'd ever had. If it was Remender I guess I have to bump Spencer down to two good ideas and yes if Remender made Sam become Cap that was a good thing he did