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is that good or bad? was my first response to finding out i'm more knowledgeable than someone about comics...
just not up on it, really.. a smattering here and there, in teeny amounts..
i'm not exactly reading every comic book put out myself, but thru a mailing list and some news sites i stay caught up.
Wolverine is rumored to have his adamantium returned when Erik Larsen begins writing.
and Sabretooth has already gotten some adamantium.. i don't know if i care a whole lot if he gets it or not.. other's opinions?
Yes, I know-- which is why Wolvie nearly got the s**t beaten out of him. I think Wolverine's adamantium was removed so he'd have to work harder to survive, as I said, and I think he has. I think it would be cool if he got it back, but it doesn't matter to me.. I think we all agree the writing needs to be good.
i've read Larsen's first issue of Wolverine.. not too bad characterization wise and such, but i don't care much for the artist (Matsuda?).. i hear that the second issue was a lot of self-serving garbage where Wolverine defeated a of Marvel Universe heroes basically so he could prove he was a fighter.. all in all, he couldn't have defeated most of the heroes as easily as he did.. if at all.. Wolvie beat Vision, yeah right.
Hrm-- I'll have to take a look at it. It's sad sometimes when comic characters simply fight and the outcomes are merely based on who's more popular.
very much so
but that's business for you..it appeals to the lowest common denominator. The music business is like that, too. There are so many people involved that you have to sell a lot, or they all lose money. But what's strange is that those of us with discriminating tastes go on to something ouside the mainstream, and the, after a while, everyone thinks it's cool :P
picked up Larsen's Wolvie run to date.. i'll write on them when i've read them..
will be waiting with hungry ears..don't know why I don't pick it up myself
I think, the reason they gave Wolvie back his adamantium was probably be because of all the protesting that Wolvie's loyal fans did when they had Magneto remove it. The way I understand it, the fans were talking about lynching the writers or some such thing. I, btw, am a very large fan of Shadowcat, Wolverine, and Nightcrawler, and I was just livid when *I* read the mag with the story in it. Still, check it out, everybody just keeps getting better. Check out 'Cat. Ain't she somethin' else.
BTW whatever happened to Nightcrawler, anyway. I'm poor and I haven't been able to afford to buy comics for a while.
Yes, Shadowcat is all grown up, apparently, and the last artist that had been working on Wolverine during the battle with Sabretooth had her looking mighty fine.
From the couple of issues that I've got of Excalibur last of which Rachel was suck out of the present timeline and was brought to the future as the mother Askani so as to let Captain Britain back from the time stream, that was the last I saw of Nightcrawler
of all the characters that Marvel had created, I think that Wolverine is the best among all of them. Aside from him doing the best at what he does (snikt!).
Nightcrawler is currently a member of the X-Men. i don't think Wolverine is much of a character. He's alright, but there are so many characters worthy of half the recognition he gets. Joe Kelly's version of Wolverine was hilarious in Deadpool #27. i highly recommend you read that book.
Regarding Nightcrawler, from the issues I have of the XMen's recent upheavals in their lives such as Onslaught, Zero Tolerance etc. I have never seen Elf on any of the XMen team. Now I might be wrong Ken since our Bookshops here in my country releases comics a month late. But I think Elf is still part of the Excalibur team in England. Nope I haven't read Deadpool #27 but I got these Three part mini series of Wolverine and Venom that I think is worth the laugh. I'm an avid collector of the XMen series and had started to collect them again from issue #137 onwards same with the Wolverine comic book which I started to collect from issue #50. Well, name me a character of Marvel that is worthy of half the recognition that Wolverine gets.
Excalibur ended with issue #125 and i believe the team may have disbanded, but either way.. it saw Nightcrawler, Collossus, and Kitty Pryde returning to the US and the X-Men in Uncanny X-Men #360 and X-Men #80. i personally believe that any character has the capability to be "popular" if given a good writer and enough word of mouth. i guess the trick is to make a character so "kewl" that people will buy his comics even when the writing sucks. Characters I feel are worthy of half Wolverine's Recognition: (again i feel any character could be.. but here's a few off the top of my head)- Spider-Man 2099, Prowler, Nova, Black Cat, Blue Shield, Quasar, Silver Sable, Sleepwalker.... any of these characters are interesting enough to merit the recognition Wolverine gets, but don't get hardly any.. something i'd attempt to remedy if i ever became a comics writer.
Rumor: Wolverine will get his adamantium back in October's issue #145. this is a rumor.
but hell, they've been baiting us since December of last year =P
resp:27 keep your eyes peeled for me, would you, Luke? I've got a frightfully busy schedule for a while and no cash that isn't already dedicated to other purposes.
will do. as soon as i go back and reread the response you're responding to.
ahh.. i've not yet heard any more obout Wolverine and Adamantium, but will keep you posted..
as far as I can see, they are continuing to delay the possibility of Wolvie getting back any adamantium.
According to present Wolverine writer, Erik Larsen, Wolverine will indeed get his adamantium back in Wolverine #145. Will this improve the character? I dunno.. heh
heh, Marvel just decides to give its characters a challenge and a change every so often. I'm not sure if Capt. America got back his original shield, for example..isn't he still carrying that energy one? returning the adamantium, I think, will just be a people pleas
i've actually forgotten what Wolverine was like WITH adamantium so i don't much care if he has it or not.. i think Cap either has or soon will have his original shield back..
really? Hmmm, I'm not sure, either, but the adamantium was said to have repressed his feral instincts somewhat. I have said it was harder for Wolvie to fight without the adamantium because he had to think harder to make up for the disadvantage. Apparently, he thinks harder not just to compensate for the physical damage loss..and that his claws can now be broken, but he has to fight to repress the animal urges now. That's why I found it interesting they gave Sabertooth adamantium. One more plot development, and *BAM* he had a sense of honor that drove him crazy. I'm sure you remember the Seige Perilous story. Since Wolvie didn't pass through the Seige Perilous, being nailed to a crucifix, he suffered a reduced health factor due to the trauma of ripping himself off. Thereafter, his body began rejecting the adamantium transplants, causing him excruciating pain from time to time. He was quoted as saying pain was good for him. By the way, Jubilee was with him at the time he went down-- she didn't pass through the Seige Perilous either-- and I wonder if Marvel ever decided to make good on that fact with another story idea. I think I also mentioned that this was akin to the fact DC has been giving Superman numerous challenges-- Superman and Batman have been compared in..I believe it was this conference, and it was Batman himself who pointed out Supe could beat anyone with his hands tied behind his back. Interesting to see the writers noted what we did here. I think Marvel has been doing this to Wolvie just to promote some better character development. I still disagree that keeping him mysterious and as a supporting character would have been the best idea-- I've liked some of the challenges.
Make the runt suffer.
hehehe.. too late. Everything that Marvel has said in recent issues (editorials, I mean) seem to say that Wolvie *will* get his adamantium back, and probably in issue #145 or so.
btw, this is Wolvie's 25 anniversary, I think, so.. (they had a promo with the hook that the anniversary probably should be adamantium instead of silver)
i think issue #145 is next month so we'll know then and there should be some sort of hints in #144 which i'll be picking up tomorrow on the weekly comic shop run.
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