Looks like Yoshiaki Kawajiri does Wolverine to me. Which is awesome, except for the fact that I don't really understand why Wolverine is fighting ninjas. It doesn't concern me that much, though, because DUDE, WOLVERINE VS. NINJAS!

The Ironman trailer looks more faithful, but I'm still not sure if that's a good thing. I'll be looking forward to watching both.

I liked the Iron Man one better than the Wolverine one. Logan looked too bishie for me.

Better a ten year hiatus in which no Marvel writer is allowed to use the Wolverine character, because damn has he been played out over the past 20 years.

I fix it for you.

Anybody read the youtube comments. Pefect example of fanboys being the whinest bitches on the internets.

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Better a ten year hiatus in which no Marvel writer is allowed to use the Wolverine character, because damn has he been played out over the past 20 years.

I fix it for you.

I still find the character entertaining, because he's one of the few you can pretty much tell any kind of story with. Superman would never work in a gritty, urban crime drama; Batman rarely works well in a heady science fiction or fantasy setting; But Wolverine can do both and so much more. Maybe it's because of his overexposure that the character has such flexibility. The major damage the overexposure does in my opinion is that the character is best characterized as a paradox: the berzerker samurai. Few writers are able to maintain that balance, and consequently his personality differs wildly from book to book, diluting him into either a cliche thug or a Musashi ripoff.

[quote="karaokeninja"][quote="Dreg"]I still find the character entertaining, because he's one of the few you can pretty much tell any kind of story with. Superman would never work in a gritty, urban crime drama; Batman rarely works well in a heady science fiction or fantasy setting; But Wolverine can do both and so much more. Maybe it's because of his overexposure that the character has such flexibility. The major damage the overexposure does in my opinion is that the character is best characterized as a paradox: the berzerker samurai. Few writers are able to maintain that balance, and consequently his personality differs wildly from book to book, diluting him into either a cliche thug or a Musashi ripoff.

What's really happening here is only one person ever wrote Wolverine well but everyone REALLY REALLY fondly remembers it and so everyone wants to write that, but no one else has pulled it off. The other problem is for Wolverine to be who Marvel wants him to be, they have to ignore that Claremont developed him away from the berzerker. Larry Hama's run on the Wolverine solo series actually had an event that reset Wolverine to crazy motherfucker right around when they forced Claremont off of X-Men. I think it was about issue #50? Something about how an evil robot from Weapon X tried to kill him and he got his memories back and Xavier took away the mental blocks or some crap. Way to undo 16 years of character development, assholes.

Yeah, the Shiva storyline that put back in the "tiger cub with a blue diaper" costume. Ugh.

Jason Aaron is probably the best Wolverine writer from the last ten years, and I love Weapon X; but again, he writes Wolverine as a black ops thug, and you really need the samurai aspect to create the inner conflict people expect in the character.