Origin for me wasn’t overly complicated and it wasn’t difficult to understand. I enjoyed the concept of Daken and Romulus. And most of all I enjoyed that fact that Way wanted Logan to put his “past to rest.” I don’t enjoy seeing Logan chase down Weapon X facilities all in the name of “revenge”. I had enough of that in the Larry Hama run thank you very much. For me everything was tied together nicely, when any writer would of had a hard time putting all the pieces together.

But I know “defending” a book that the eight or ten veterans on this site hate is a lost cause. So I’ll bid myself adieu until I am baited by another open thread in the future. adios.

The thing is that you have two extremes with Weapon X and Origin. You have a series with Origin that is trying too hard to use history and spin it to create something new (and ultimately bad) and you have Weapon X that is simply trying to create new stories that you don’t normally get (which can be good or bad). I’ll take what Weapon X is bringing us over Origin.

But since the series will be ending soon and these are the sorts of stories we are going to be getting when Jason Aaron is writing the new Wolverine series, we’ll be having discussions along the lines of “This is a great storyline” or “This story sucks. Why did they do this coming off of such a good story?” That beats the standard Origin discussions of “This really sucks.”

Anyone out there enjoy this?