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

[blues32]

I don't think so. I think Tony was shown two realities. One where the registration was a success and one where Steve's rebellion led to the deaths of many superheroes. He saw the latter first and was almost convinced he had done the right thing until he was shown the second one. It must be really painful to see a reality where the difference stems from the tone of a conversation. I mean, his attitude in that moment got Bill Foster killed.

[tinygaylaura]

All I'm getting from this is that Tony Stark is one of the Marvel universes biggest absolute morons who should really see someone about those brain worms

I can kind of see why Marvel made Norman Osborn Tony's nemesis for a while

They have a lot in common

They're both psychotic weirdoes who blew themselves up with mad science and then flew around dressed like maniacs but at least Norman admits he's just a sick fuck who likes tossing people off bridges and doing evil shit because it makes him laugh...he doesn't try and insist that actually he's a hero and his actions are morally justified

[blues32]

No, Green Goblin throws people off bridges and does evil shit because it makes him laugh. Norman Osborn shoots down planes to see if his enemy can catch it or captures mutants to drain them and their energies to Omega Weapon (Micheal Pointer, I think his name was). Norman DOES insist he's the hero, but doesn't care if his actions are moral or not. He knows what's best.

And Tony is a hero. If he wasn't, then the Superior Iron Man wouldn't have been such a monster. He also wouldn't have been willing to give himself brain damage to prevent Norman from getting access to the SHRA files.