How do you like your Wolverine? Dark, Rampaging, Regular, or Grande Mocha? Decisions, decisions… according to this week’s My Cup O’ Joe, Marvel EiC Joe Quesada gave the skinny on some breaking developments for the Ol’ Canucklehead.
First and foremost, the standard Wolverine title will be wrapping into Marvel’s Dark Reign crossover, now assuming the title of Dark Wolverine — the series will focus on Daken, Wolverine’s homicidal son. “Daken is like Logan…minus any sense of boundaries.” Quesada said. “The world had better beware.” Daniel Way and Marjorie Liu are on writing duties, while Giuseppe Camuncoli will be handling art. I’m at the very least digging this cover art:
But just as important, Marvel’s grand poobah broke some news about a new Wolverine anthology special called Rampaging Wolverine:
48 pages jam-packed with black-and-white thrills! Three all-new comics by Joshua Hale Fialkov & Paco Diaz Luque; Christopher Yost & Mateus Santolouco; and Ted McKeever, plus an extra-special prose story by Dark Tower’s Robin Furth, illustrated by the illustrious Nelson.It’s non-stop down-and-dirty Wolverine action!
We’ve got some art for the April anthology right here.
March 30th, 2009 at 8:30 am
I like how the typeface makes it look like Wrampaging Wolverine.
March 30th, 2009 at 8:41 am
“Daken is like Logan…minus any sense of boundaries.”
Funny, sounds a lot like Logan before Joe Q became EIC. Just goes to show that the current Marvel regime has no idea what made the character so different in the first place.
The appeal was no memory of his past leading to a sense of obligation to do good out of a tortured conscience over atrocities he might have committed. Now he’s just some 200 year old guy named James with a son, a clone, and a kicked smoking habit. Oh yeah and he has claws.
At least to me, Wolverine is Hawkman-level broken, which is a shame.
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Coming up in 5 years, Dark Punisher. “He’s like Frank Castle, but not afraid to use guns when necessary.”
March 30th, 2009 at 9:12 am
Logan minus any sense of boundaries…sounds like X-23 when she was introduced.
March 30th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
looks amazing!!!
March 30th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Can we have a “House of W” event soon?
No
More
Wolverines
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March 30th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
So Rampaging Wolverine is basically a revival of the old b&w magazines Marvel used to publish.
March 31st, 2009 at 7:53 am
Anyone else notice that Rampaging Wolverine has a price of $3.99 in the upper left hand corner, but $4.99 in the UPC area?
It’s a cool idea. Wish it were more pages (especially if it’s $5).
April 1st, 2009 at 8:30 am
I love the idea of the return of the black and white magazines, but for $5, we should get at least 64 pages of mostly new content and maybe 10 pages of ads.
April 2nd, 2009 at 4:16 pm
All of this new Wolverine junk is once again Joe Quesada performing job-maintenance for his career.
There is a Wolverine movie coming out next month, ergo, there are loads of new Wolverine projects being announced.
The same was true for Iron Man, Hulk, and Punisher last year.
Joe just doesn’t want to get fired the way Bob Harras did when the first X-Men movie came out and there was not enough new X-junk in the shops to capitalize on it.
With each new movie, you will see new titles, specials, and miniseries pop up around the same time. There is no creativity behind these decisions. It’s just as simple and as pragmatic as that.