Comments on: A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments - Day 44

By: wwk5d

wwk5d — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:15:41 +0000

Awesome series. Good stuff by Claremont and Miller.

By: Felicity

Felicity — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:34:18 +0000

I liked the Archie Goodwin/John Byrne arc from later in this series, which starts in Madripoor and ends in some Central American banana republic. La Bandera was cool!

Tubby Hawkeye = Trick Shot.

By: universaladdress

universaladdress — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:53:12 +0000

Great character. The best thing about how often he's written is that if you're not a neurotic, you can easily ignore everything you don't like and be left over with some of the best stories from Marvel.

By: Mallfunction

Mallfunction — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:29:00 +0000

It was from a time Frank Miller could actually draw worth a damn.

By: Andre Fairon

Andre Fairon — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:44:50 +0000

Oh yeah, and the mini wasn't super but the poster was awesome and I still have it up.

By: Andre Fairon

Andre Fairon — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:42:57 +0000

I like the current future Wolverine story arc by Millar and McNiven a lot. My favorite Wolverine solo story is probably Barry Windsor Smith's Weapon X. (Does that count as a Wolverine story ?) I agree that there are very few good solo stories of him.

By: RichYan33

RichYan33 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:35:07 +0000

I'm still waiting for a good solo Wolverine story.

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:34:54 +0000

The catchphrase is still relevent today. He is the best there is at what he does. Since what he does is make gratuitous guest appearances and that isn't very nice.

By: Matt D

Matt D — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:22:00 +0000

In the midst of all of this, we've had the most enjoyable 11-12 issues of Wolverine in decades with First Class and the second most enjoyable in Manifest Destiny and next year Jason Aaron gets an ongoing so yeah, I don't mind too much Wolverine if the stuff is actually good.

By: fourthworlder

fourthworlder — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:11:44 +0000

I was so eager to see this when the first issue came out, so excited to buy it, so sure that it absolutely had to be awesome, and eventually so disappointed. Compared to the Wolverine I'd known in X-Men, and compared to Miller's prior work on Daredevil, this felt over-hyped, overblown, and ultimately kind of empty, imho.

By: Ryan Day

Ryan Day — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:10:38 +0000

That original mini is cool. Yes, it's full of Claremontisms, but it's not like today, when it seems like half the industry is based on Claremontisms. And it`s got awesome Frank Miller art, and ninjas.

It got to the core of Wolverine`s character, something that`s overlooked now because he's the Universal Super Bad Ass: Trying to fight against his base nature to become a better man.

It may get lost in a sea of oversaturation and repetition, but that series was good stuff.

By: Michael Mayket

Michael Mayket — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:17:08 +0000

I'm not saying I disagree 27 years later as an adult, but as I say in my original post to my 10 year old ears it was so cool!

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:33:02 +0000

Yep, agreed. It's Chris Claremont (super-nerdy) trying to sound edgy and cool.

And failing, as usual.

By: HammerHeart

HammerHeart — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:46:26 +0000

Am I the only one who, even back then, wasn't impressed with Wolverine's catchphrase? It always sounded stilted to my ears, like someone was trying too hard to sound badass.

By: Tom Fitzpatrick

Tom Fitzpatrick — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:35:42 +0000

“…But what I do isn’t very nice” sounds terrible. Just terrible.

Jason Aaron's character Red Crow from Scalped said basically the same thing, save before that is: "I'm an honourable man but what I do ..."

This is after he killed some people and put a Mob enforced enforcer in jail for some really nasty s**t.

By: Tanzim

Tanzim — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:33:03 +0000

I actually read the catchphrase first in the first issue of the regular series. I remember getting chills down my spine. These days Wolverine seems to shout that out on every posible occasion. It doesn't matter if he's kickin butt, sitting on the john or playing pattycake, you'll hear that catchphrase.

By: Manglr

Manglr — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:54:35 +0000

Still have a fond place in my heart for that story. So sad to see how far Wolvie has fallen.

But what strikes me most now....whatever happened to THAT Frank Miller? Just think of what the series would look like if he were to try to pencil it today.

By: Crash-Man

Crash-Man — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:46:36 +0000

"...But what I do isn't very nice" sounds terrible. Just terrible.

By: Thok

Thok — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:06:36 +0000

I was hoping for "Snikkt, bub", or possibly "Fastball Special".

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:18:32 +0000

I'm just going to pretend that's THE Larry King up there.