Well, to wrap up this week and after hearing so much about Disney buying Marvel (a piece of news I rant about in my updated blog [link] ) I thought I'd put up a piece with a bit of a statement.

Back in the day, when I read "Weapon X" by the great Barry Windsor Smith, I was blown away by his adult, mature take on Wolverine and thought that was what made comics great. That was the essence of what I wanted to do and I was proud and happy that Marvel let its characters grow in that direction.
Unfortunately, that was not to last. I soon realised that BWS was just one man in a mountain of bad stories of endless remakes of old characters. I found out that it wasn't his vision that the market was following but rather the stories in which Wolverine's claws went 'snikt' and he said 'bub'.

Thus, as the industry makes yet another move towards a new horizon, I felt it was time that everyone asked themselves... what are we fans defending Marvel for? It's been long since a BWS created a jewel like "Weapon X". Of course, there has been a lot of good stories in the middle, but, tell me the truth: isn't the ammount of crappy stories the double of those few good ones?

So, here's my take on Wolverine as I think he should be. Not as HUgh Jackman in the films, not as the spandex dressed mutant form the superteam, but as a man driven to madness in a failed attempt to create the ultimate weapon. A man turned into a beast for no other purpose than to perpetuate humanity's most terrible ability: to kill flawlessly.

I hope yo enjoy it and let me know what you think as usual!

Nic.-