recent Wolverine issues

[ratcreature]

Sigh. I think they need to get beyond the typical Wolverine plot and get some variety into the character stuff. I mean the "Am I a man or am I an animal? Angst. Woe." as well as "There's some new revelation of the nefarious Weapon X program, let's bait Logan with the past he doesn't remember." plots are both getting old. And I'm not even reading a lot of Wolverine, not in comics, nor in fanfic. And I'm still fed up with this. Can't he have some other stuff going on sometimes? Anyway, I'm not enthused.

In case you're wondering, I just read the last two chapters of the Coyote Crossing story (Wolverine #10/11 written by Greg Rucka, art by Leandro Fernandez), the standalone story Dream (Wolverine #12 written by Greg Rucka, pencils by Darick Robertson, inks by Darick Robertson and Tom Palmer) and the first part of the new story Return of the Native (Wolverine #13 written by Greg Rucka, art by Darick Robertson).

Comments

[elynross.livejournal.com]

I read the original Wolverine title for a long time, until I bailed on all my XM-related titles a number of years ago. When I picked the ensemble titles up again, I found I was disinclined to pick up Wolverine again (apart from Origins and a miniseries or so). I think this is one of the reasons why. I liked the early stuff, learning more about what he did when he wasn't with the team, about people in his life, the early Weapon X stuff, but at a certain point it seemed that it was being drawn out implausibly, or at least uninterestingly. And I keep thinking that someone as down to earth and level-headed as Wolverine would have come to terms with the "man or beast" issue by now, after hacking his way through it a few times.

[ratcreature]

I think I wouldn't mind it so much as background character stuff, like if those issues he's having just tinged his relationships or his actions, but there's only so much angsting you can do about a "feral" nature as *main* point before it becomes tiresome, and I haven't even read a tiny fraction of Wolverine comics, and already feel that way.

[thawrecka]

Yeah, it's rather lame that they can't think of a new and exciting plot for Wolverine to have.