With his healing factor gone for nearly a year (by that point), it's time for Wolverine to go into the light. Current THUNDERBOLTS, SHE-HULK, and INHUMANS scribe Charles Soule along with art pro Steve McNiven give us a weekly four-issue limited series called THE DEATH OF WOLVERINE, set to launch September 3rd. In an interview with EW, new X-editor Mike Marts talked about Wolverine being the "eternal victor," someone who doesn't lose a fight because he can always jump back into it before asking what happens now that he can't always get back into it. Soule hopes that the death will feel appropriate to the character and that it will feel like the definitive end to the character. As comic fans, we all know that second "feel like" is kind of the key. This is Wolverine, Captain SellsBooks, so it's hard to imagine he'll stay out for long but this is another in a string of high-profile "deaths" in the Marvel Universe of late, like Captain America, Nightcrawler, Johnny Storm, and, most recently, Spider-Man. All of those mentioned have returned within the last few years but still, that doesn't mean the story of each's death wasn't engaging. We'll see how this one reads in September.
Friday, April 25, 2014
THE DEATH OF WOLVERINE limited series announced
With his healing factor gone for nearly a year (by that point), it's time for Wolverine to go into the light. Current THUNDERBOLTS, SHE-HULK, and INHUMANS scribe Charles Soule along with art pro Steve McNiven give us a weekly four-issue limited series called THE DEATH OF WOLVERINE, set to launch September 3rd. In an interview with EW, new X-editor Mike Marts talked about Wolverine being the "eternal victor," someone who doesn't lose a fight because he can always jump back into it before asking what happens now that he can't always get back into it. Soule hopes that the death will feel appropriate to the character and that it will feel like the definitive end to the character. As comic fans, we all know that second "feel like" is kind of the key. This is Wolverine, Captain SellsBooks, so it's hard to imagine he'll stay out for long but this is another in a string of high-profile "deaths" in the Marvel Universe of late, like Captain America, Nightcrawler, Johnny Storm, and, most recently, Spider-Man. All of those mentioned have returned within the last few years but still, that doesn't mean the story of each's death wasn't engaging. We'll see how this one reads in September.
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