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Madhouse to release WOLVERINE and IRONMAN
  • Looks cool to me, its a shame Gotham Knight was so-so.
    But I guess that didn't deter them.

    Iron Man trailer

    Wolverine trailer
  • 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! :saucy:
  • [quote="Sheol777"]
    Wolverine trailer

    That is one powerful mullet.
  • 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.
  • Wolverine has fought lots of ninjas. He (almost) married a Japanese chick and is the sworn foe of The Hand. Go read the Wolverine mini-series from the '80s. Even though Frank Miller drew it, it's awesome. He was clearly going for a Lone Wolf & Cub thing, and as usual from Chris Claremont in the '80s, his writing is great.
  • I liked the Iron Man one better than the Wolverine one. Logan looked too bishie for me.
  • Wolverine is literally ninja Hitler. He won't rest easy until they're all dead.

    Also pick up "Blood Debt" for some classic Wolvie ninja-killin' action.

    I'm not a huge fan of his design, but I'm thrilled they're actually trying to do something new with the character. Better a rebooted Wolverine than one that's a slave to his intricate continuity.
  • 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.
  • [quote="Gokiburi_Chachacha"]

    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 feel like Chris Claremont can still write Wolverine if he wants to, but NO ONE ELSE.

    Then again, in his new X-Men comic that is supposed to pick up where he left off 20 years ago the first thing he did was kill Wolverine, so even Claremont agrees.
  • Anybody read the youtube comments. Pefect example of fanboys being the whinest bitches on the internets.
  • IRON MAN: The animation in this looks like the stuff that the guy did for the "Doctor Who Anime" short.

    WOLVERINE: Haha, Wolverine is fighting Mumm-Ra...
  • [quote="Gokiburi_Chachacha"]

    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="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.
  • [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.
  • I know I'm being a brat when I say this, but I didn't like the look of that Wolverine at all. I mean, take liberties where you must, but when you turn good old Wolvy into some mulleted-clawed-weird-werewolf-from-twilight looking thing, I'm not really all that pleased.

    Iron Man looked promising...