Comments on: X-Men Forever Alpha Review: Back to the ’90s

By: hasan

hasan — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:47:20 +0000

“Well it is possible he does have a plan for Wolverine. He indicated trying to go into his version of Logan’s history so his death might not be nearly as permanent as it seems.”
I think your right. For years I’ve trolled around the internet and read fan press to learn about Claremont’s abandoned plans for the series, and one of those plans involved Wolverine dying of adamantium poisoning and being resurrected as an assassin by the Hand around Uncanny 300.

He set up the adamantium poisoning thing beginning just before the mutant massacre with Logan and the team noticing it was taking longer than usual to heal from some injuries. He was also complaining about it during the Psylocke/Mandarin thing. Claremont might have decided to skip the whole drawn out disease thing, and just kill him, only to have him resurrected later.

One problem that i see with this is that Mark Millar already used the hand resurrection/assassin thing a few years ago, so it does seem redundant now. I hope it’s somthing like that, becuase i like wolverine, and i’d like to see claremont writing him again.

I also like professor X, but since Claremont wanted to get rid of him for years, I’m pretty confident the old man will be dead, in Claremont’s universe, by the end of the year, but probably a lot sooner.

By: jrpbsp

jrpbsp — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:37:01 +0000

Well it is possible he does have a plan for Wolverine. He indicated trying to go into his version of Logan’s history so his death might not be nearly as permanent as it seems. Not like he has not brought back a few characters in his time. We’ll see how it goes I guess. But as I stated before this definitely does not seem to be the stories he was planning to write nor the style of his earlier works so it does wane my enthusiasm.

By: RPG

RPG — Mon, 25 May 2009 11:59:28 +0000

I really lost a lot of respect for Claremont. Mostly because his “Logan” was one that relied on stealth and tactics, he was the one who helped Logan become a three dimensional character. But in this issue he writers Logan as a moron who thinks he is immortal. I can see another writer portraying Logan like that, however Chris Clarmont always emphasized that Logan was more then aware of his mortality. At least he did in his early career in the late 80’s, now I don’t even recognize his writing or style anymore.

Don’t mistake this as another fanboy complaining about his favorite character either. I have no problem with Claremont killing off Wolverine, however I imagined the creator of Wolverine giving us something else besides cheap shock value.

By: jrpbsp

jrpbsp — Sun, 24 May 2009 03:00:37 +0000

Not certain, my guess is that he won’t. Very few characters stayed dead even during Claremont’s run. Still it seems like he’s trying to go for shock and internet buzz so who knows. It might be a way of getting people talking and reading.

By: bditm

bditm — Sat, 23 May 2009 18:11:05 +0000

(spoilers)

Darn.

Yeah, the story seems all right, but I’m afraid they’ve killed off Wolvie just because he’s become so over-exposed in recent times.

And I was so looking forward to the old team, and the Wolverine as I loved him in the 80’s/90’s.

I haven’t read up on this much, though the foreshadowing in the book itself is laid on kinda thick. What’s the news? Is he going to stay dead?