Wolverine.....what a joke!

[Xofenroht]

I know, I'm from Michigan.

 

[fifthfiend]

You guys are living in Michigan and Maryland. I rest my case.

I actually completely agree with that case, which is why I moved to San Francsico.

...I should really update my profile.

 

[PhotoJones]

I know, I'm from Michigan.

Was that the one clever quip of the year people from Michigan are allowed to express? The rest of the year is booked full with being racist, depressed and polluted.

 

[Xofenroht]

Y'know, we have an Upper Peninsula. We could slap Maryland too.

 

[Xofenroht]

Was that the one clever quip of the year people from Michigan are allowed to express? The rest of the year is booked full with being racist, depressed and polluted.

The bad part is that I agree with you. We're only not depressed when we're drunk.

 

[Varient]

hahahahahahahaah

Hmmmmn.

Can u say "Blast from the past?"



I wonder,.. did the Banned poster ever come back?


V.

 

[PhotoJones]

The bad part is that I agree with you. We're only not depressed when we're drunk.

And unemployed. I forgot to mention that one.

 

[Xofenroht]

Yeah, you know our state almost closed down?

 

[Varient]

See, here's the thing...Wolverine, like any other character, is great when handled by the CORRECT writer. Somewhere between Onslaught and now, they decided that all that made Wolverine cool was his hack/slash attitude and claws, whereas what made him so cool a character was his Clint Eastwood-like quality. He was the silent badass who didn't say much, and who, for the most part, clung to the background until he was needed to step in and do what he does best. NOT that he was flawless and the only one who could win fights.

Wolverine was a multi-dimensional character once he joined the X-Men. He had depth, mystery, a complex personality. He provided a good foil for Cyclops' goody-goody nature, and competition for Jean as women love the bad boy. Though the X-Men were like his family and the X-Mansion the only place he considered home, he always felt like an outsider amongst outsiders and kept his distance. He fought to control the animal nature inside, he had extensive training which he used to the fullest from the simplest hunt to saving his allies. He was hardly a genius, but when he spoke there was a wisdom behind the words that only comes with experience.

THAT was Wolverine.

This character that's been running around for a while is NOT. It's a characature. It's a What If? gone wrong. He's obnoxious, in your face, nothing more than two sets of claws (and FYI, there's a smoking ban at Marvel so he hasn't lit-up in a few years now). Marvel thinks that's all there is to the character, and the writers do little to disporve it.

You wanna see the REAL Wolverine? Go read CLASSIC Claremont. Go read Larry Hama. Go read any book before the mid 1990s, then come back here and tell us that he was everything he is now.

............................................

(Mild surprise.)

 

[Damiean Dark]

I like wolvie but he is getting over exposed Marvel unlike DC has other popular characters that can be given more script time we dont only have Batman to sell comics we have loads of other popular well known heroes.

 

[kguillou]

Um, no offense, im not a DC hater or anything (i love batman, superman and green lantern) but over at DC Batman is also VERY overused. There's a TON of books with batman in them, just about as much as wolverine is in Marvel. Batman's featured in Batman, Detective Comics, Batman and the Outsiders, Batman Confidential, Justice League, Superman/ Batman, and i'm sure there are others. Both DC and Marvel overuse their popular characters to the max.

 

[fifthfiend]

You know one of these days someone's gonna work out exactly why it is that when Wolverine shows up in three hundred comics a week it's annoying as ****, but when Batman shows up in three hundred and fourteen comics a week it's like eh, no big.

I mean rationally I should find the latter as godawfully annoying as the former bug for some reason no, I can shrug off any ten million appearances of Batty McBats but somehow five million appearances of Wolvie von Wolverinington is just four point five million too goddamn many.

 

[fifthfiend]

Y'know, we have an Upper Peninsula. We could slap Maryland too.

That'd require the Yoopers to uncross their eyes long enough to aim a slap.

 

[Harlekin]

You know one of these days someone's gonna work out exactly why it is that when Wolverine shows up in three hundred comics a week it's annoying as ****, but when Batman shows up in three hundred and fourteen comics a week it's like eh, no big.

I mean rationally I should find the latter as godawfully annoying as the former bug for some reason no, I can shrug off any ten million appearances of Batty McBats but somehow five million appearances of Wolvie von Wolverinington is just four point five million too goddamn many.

Difference being that half of those titles are devoted to Batman as is. You don't need to read them. Wolverine, although it's becoming less frequent, has the tendency to show up just anywhere, and you can't help but read a Wolverine story.

 

[Xofenroht]

That'd require the Yoopers to uncross their eyes long enough to aim a slap.

Well...well...yeah.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Difference being that half of those titles are devoted to Batman as is. You don't need to read them. Wolverine, although it's becoming less frequent, has the tendency to show up just anywhere, and you can't help but read a Wolverine story.

Batman's also more the kind of character who's logically bound to show up in a lot of places. He's a behind-the-scenes manipulator with his fingers in many pies all the time. Wolverine is just a dude who runs around trying to cut people. He's not the type to be keeping track of people and popping up when they least expect it like Batman is.

 

[the defenders]

this is still the best thread on this site.

 

[Anubis]

Man, I miss PJ.

Now there was an A-hole.

 

[RAMORE]

What about wolverine's son running around as him what the hell is that about. We have an overexposed character with a bad son cliche and a younger female version that I can't help but love.

 

[BlackLantern]

Can someone tell me why this losers so popular? He's a short little runt, he throws temper tantrums, his second hand smoke is killing the other X-Men, he can barely form a complete sentence, bub, and maybe worst of all, he is a filthy little mutant, like a great number of posters who have bad mouthed me here.

Id agree....he's the walking talking cliche of the tough guy anti-hero with a heart of gold...it's a tired bit

 

[lowly marvelite]

Oh yeah, Wolverine's cool. Although, he is probably old school cool. I would say, Deadpool, basically a modern spin-off of Wolvie, is the modern day cool.

 

[lowly marvelite]

I'm tired of your posts.

So why read them? You obviously aren't that tired of them. Why not ignore them if you don't like them? Why do you feel the need to say something sh(&*^$? How 'bout keep your little nasty comments to yourself.

 

[Anubis]

Since i've got you alone in this little used joke thread, I would just like to let you know that you've built up over the last hour or whatver a good case for a banning. This is what you would call trolling.

I wish I could say it was nice knowing you, but that would be a lie.

 

[OnedetachedonE]

Hmmm. I don't think Wolvies that bad. I kinda like him. Sort of a modern day Clint Eastwood.

 

[livrule]

See, here's the thing...Wolverine, like any other character, is great when handled by the CORRECT writer. Somewhere between Onslaught and now, they decided that all that made Wolverine cool was his hack/slash attitude and claws, whereas what made him so cool a character was his Clint Eastwood-like quality. He was the silent badass who didn't say much, and who, for the most part, clung to the background until he was needed to step in and do what he does best. NOT that he was flawless and the only one who could win fights.

Wolverine was a multi-dimensional character once he joined the X-Men. He had depth, mystery, a complex personality. He provided a good foil for Cyclops' goody-goody nature, and competition for Jean as women love the bad boy. Though the X-Men were like his family and the X-Mansion the only place he considered home, he always felt like an outsider amongst outsiders and kept his distance. He fought to control the animal nature inside, he had extensive training which he used to the fullest from the simplest hunt to saving his allies. He was hardly a genius, but when he spoke there was a wisdom behind the words that only comes with experience.

THAT was Wolverine.

This character that's been running around for a while is NOT. It's a characature. It's a What If? gone wrong. He's obnoxious, in your face, nothing more than two sets of claws (and FYI, there's a smoking ban at Marvel so he hasn't lit-up in a few years now). Marvel thinks that's all there is to the character, and the writers do little to disporve it.

You wanna see the REAL Wolverine? Go read CLASSIC Claremont. Go read Larry Hama. Go read any book before the mid 1990s, then come back here and tell us that he was everything he is now.

Very good post.

The last GREAT Wolverine comic I read was #90 ... The issue where he takes down Sabretooth before the Age Of Apocalypse kicked in.

So much more than just a fight issue ... (Also probably the last time Creed was actually worth reading)