Right to the point: After watching "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" with me, my buddy Brent told me I just had to check out this issue of Wolverine that he had. "You won't believe it," it said.Indeed I didn't.
Wolverine #48 by writer Marc Guggenheim only served to make me guffaw a [very] loud "AW C'MON!!" #48 continues the story from #43, where villain Nitro blows himself up and atomizes not only Wolverine but the rest of a strike team assigned to take him out for his actions at the beginning of the epic "Civil War" saga.
Notice I said "atomizes." (See at left.) Of course, Wolverine's adamantium skeleton prevents him from being completely disintegrated. That's because the adamantium is not a natural part of his body -- it is an artificial man-made metal infused into him some 30+ years ago. But all of Wolverine's natural body was zapped. Completely.
This doesn't stop Guggenheim from concocting one of the most laughable moments I've read in a Marvel comic. He makes Wolverine immortal. Even though only his adamantium remains ... and the rest of him was totally destroyed ... Wolverine's body regenerates. Completely.
AW, C'MON!!
Sorry, but [much] better creators like Chris Claremont and John Byrne knew that Wolverine isn't totally invulnerable. Just look at the classic "Days of Future Past" two-parter. In the second issue (Uncanny X-Men #142), an aged Colossus "fastball specials" Wolverine toward a supposedly unsuspecting Sentinel. But the giant robot turns quickly, and flash fries Wolverine -- leaving only his skeleton remaining. His fellow surviving X-Men all are horrified by the fact that he "was gone."
Wolverine #48: Yet another reason I don't buy modern comics anymore.
2 comments:
Nice how his cell works in the middle of a raging inferno. Must be one of dem dere newfangled iphones.
Seemed to me that Wolvie's brain survived the explosion. He is still conscious as a skeleton and, IIRC the regenerating flesh seems to spread out from his skull.
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