How can Captain America have even a little bit of confidence in Wolverine if he betrayed Cap to the Nazis? It doesn’t work for me.

Very good point. I agree whole-heartedly that this, as well as just about every Wolverine or Origins arc since ‘Origins and Endings’ (which I enjoyed before it spiraled into oblivion in ‘Origins’) has/have completely ruined James “Logan” Howlett’s reputation for the time being. But that’s just it. “for the time being”. In my opinion, Daniel Way seems to write from the top to the bottom of a huge proverbial triangle. Taking baby steps towards a much larger picture. Granted, he does have plot holes you could drive a mac truck through, and he SEEMS to be leaving a lot of loose ends so far, AND he hasn’t really gotten to the point yet, I have some faith that he’ll tie everything together…hopefully…eventually. For now, I’m enjoying the meaning that he’s given to a few little details of a lot of back issues (i.e. the conversation with Silver Samurai about the Muramasa blade in the first ongoing Wolvie series, and the whole birthday thing with Sabretooth, etc.) that didn’t really make sense at all before. I even think, by shedding light on Romulus’ manipulations of Logan, that Way is finally explaining Logan’s berserker rages. “Then the kill light goes on, blinding me, wiping out my thoughts”. “They knew just what to do to get me here.” [-stuff from Origins and Endings] All of this could factor heavily into why Wolverine had so many self-conflicts back in the Clarmont days. How did little sickly James Howlett become a second-nature killer in the first place? He obviously regretted it. He came down so hard on himself for it. Why not just stop? Other than “You killed my papa! I’ll kill you back, I’ll kill you back!!” from the Origin mini (which was in defense of a loved one), killing just doesn’t seem like it should be in Logan’s nature. Unless someone PUT it there. And now that he remembers all the horrible things he’s done (and we, as readers, can see that he’s justified in hating himself) just imagine what changes that will have on his personality. It’s him clawing people in front of Mariko times like FIVE HUNDRED!!

I’m probably projecting meaning onto Daniel Way’s writing that isn’t really there, but the main reason I kinda like him (at least more than Hama) is that he actually gives me room to project. He’s definitely more of a novelist than a comic writer. I really hope he’s going somewhere with all this. But the guy DID say he had a five year plan. So he’s obviously got a head full of ideas at least.

Thanks to anyone that actually read this entire flamin’ thing.