Wolverine: Why is he so popular?

Nobody ever answered my question about Logan's eyepatch. So I'm going to assume it was private dig at Cyclops.

Since cover date January 2000, Wolverine has
appeared in Ultimate Wolverine vs Hulk, What If: Wolverine, Wolverine:
Soultaker, Witchblade/Wolverine, Wolverine/Punisher, Wolverine/ Captain
America, Wolverine: The End, Spider-Man & Wolverine, Wolverine: Snikt!,
Wolverine/Doop, Wolverine: X-Isle, Hulk/Wolverine: Six Hours, Wolverine:
Netsuke, Wolverine/Hulk, Elektra/ Wolverine: The Redeemers, Origin, Iron
Fist/Wolverine and Before the Fantastic Four: Ben Grimm & Logan.

Yet he remains one of, if not THE, most popular Marvel characters.

EXILES #85 - We're now firmly into the stories Tom Bedard is writing while he waits for Chris Claremont to recover and take over the book, but kudos for a premise so gloriously ridiculous that you've got to admire the sheer nerve. Having sacked the Exiles last issue, the Timebreakers introduce the new, improved team - all-new and all-Wolverine. After all, if Wolverine is great, six of him have got to be even better. Walking a fine line between sheer silliness and actually having a proper story, this is tremendous fun. A-

WOLVERINE #45 - God, I love this storyline. It's got all the playful absurdity of "Enemy of the State" without the grinding cynicism. This issue: Wolverine in underwater armour! With claws! You either get it and roll with the absurdity, or you don't and you'll hate it with a passion. Emphatically not for anyone who thinks Wolverine stories should be taken particularly seriously, but so cheerfully nonsensical that I can't help but smile. And when they stop for a couple of panels to lecture Wolverine about his extremely inconsistent sense of honour, there are some fair points being made as well. A

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New Wolverine series next week, Origins II.

The cover is pretty sweet - plastic die cut on top of a painted cover

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I got the Wolverine & Nick Fury: Scorpio trade collection a while back. The main story is a graphic novel that Archie Goodwin and Howard Chaykin did in the 80s and it is a good story. It's a worthy sequel to the Steranko story. The few things Archie Goodwin wrote later in his career are all pretty good comic books.

The other two related tales are not quite as good and not written by Goodwin. The second story by Tom DeFalco with John Buscema also inking himself is a decent 80s Wolverine/Nick Fury adventure. Buscema inking himself just has a different look, smoother lines. The third tale is a sequel to the Goodwin story written by Chaykin with somewhat mismatched art by Shawn MacManus. It's not the best comic by either.

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sure are a lot of these, thanks 乒乓

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I feel like there was a more recent thread where Logan came up but with search down I can't find it so I found this with the google.

Saw Logan tonight, it is incredible. I vouched hard for the last Wolverine movie in some other thread (the one in Japan where he falls in love); never bothered with the first one which I heard was complete rubbish. But Logan is another level; certainly, by far, the best Xmen movie, and, if they choose for it to be such, a decent way to end the series. Jackman and Stewart are just great; the girl is great. The final scene is great. In the running for the best comics movie of all time.

I posted my review in the "Random Marvel Blabbery" thread... similar sentiments to yours!

(How painful was the Deadpool teaser that preceded it, though?)

haven't seen Logan but if you're talking about the phone booth teaser trailer, I love that thing to death

Diff'rent strokes, I guess...

Yeah it's possibly the best comic book film yet. Just leagues above the rest in so many ways. Also - Wolverine being Wolverine.

Ghost World? Akira? Danger: Diabolik? Scott Pilgrim? American Splendour? Snowpiercer? Nausicaa? When The Wind Blows?

Prof. X is very much a Clowesian grump in this movie. Also bearderine looks disturbingly like Mel Gibson.

Also, Snowpiercer was mostly rubbish

I would give the edge to The Dark Knight (it wasn't perfect, but was pretty darn good). Caveat: I have not seen every one of the other 5,980 comic book movies released in the past ten years.

The Dark Knight was dumb as fuck

The Dark Knight is an enjoyable movie, but the title character is the least interesting thing about it. Wolverine is consistently the most interesting thing about the movies he's in.

Did I miss an explanation about why there are no more mutants or is that in a line midway through the film?
Was aware of the comic arc where mutants died out from I think about 10 years ago. But wouldn't be something that would be immediate to large chunks of the audience. Or there would be a large amount of the audience who wouldn't be familiar with it at least.
Also does this story directly map to other comic arcs?

Oh, I didn't quite make the connection with the corn syrup: http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/03/logan-x-men-killed-westchester-incident-professor-x-where-are-the-mutants

This was like Mad Max + The Road + Hanna + X-Men.

The Dark Knight was dumb as fuck

Nah, you must be thinking of one of the other two Nolan movies... "The Dark Knight" (2008) was pretty awesome!

xp in the movie they breeze over it in a couple lines, amazingly - through secret gene therapy in public water/food they weeded out mutantkind in a generation

the movie is very loosely inspired by a story called Old Man Logan which is much much worse than the movie turned out, they only took the bare bones of the plot (buddy road trip in an apocalyptic wasteland with old Wolverine) and changed the story and characters entirely. honestly the movie is more "inspired" by video game The Last of Us than anything else imo

the dark knight was totally great, it's board heresy to actually say so though for some reason. probably lingering Bush-era hatred

Xp, had this written.
Yeah got what Xavier said, missed the corn syrup.
Did wonder if it was Old Man Logan based but not sure where the cbr I had is. Couldn't get a new d/ld last week.

Funny seeing Stephen Gervais-buddy as Caliban.
Not sure what else he's done filmwise.

xp in the movie they breeze over it in a couple lines, amazingly - through secret gene therapy in public water/food they weeded out mutantkind in a generation

I agree this was oddly tossed-off (and was one of the few false notes in the plot for me; could that really be feasibly implemented / "work"? hard to suspend disbelief).

If we're doing spoiler-y discussion, one other small thing that bugged me was the pivotal cell phone video -- no way could she have recorded/edited that (she wouldn't have even been allowed to have a personal phone in there, let alone stand around filming... and some of the shots were just impossible!). I realize they had to deliver the background info to the viewer (and Logan) with more "impact" than if the nurse just told the story to the camera. I guess including more conventional "flashback" images, to accompany her narrative, would not have fit the style of the film. Not sure how I would have solved that problem, as director.

(A final thing I wasn't crazy about was the graphic fate of certain sympathetic characters... but I'm a softy in that regard.)

One other thing I thought was funny was the idea that kids would be safe once they had asylum in Canada (head bad guy: "We must stop them before they reach the border!"). Those Reavers didn't seem like the type to respect territorial sovereignty! But maybe the point was just that the kids would be well hidden, or Alpha Flight would be protecting their asses...

(I know it sounds like I'm nitpicking, but that's just because I liked the movie so much overall that these few things stand out as "off notes" or w/e)

not tossed off! there is a whole section of the movie where they fight GMO corn bullies. if anything, dr. posh nosh should have not blabbed and bragged bond villain style, and they could have just let the camera rest ominously on a box of corn flakes.

True, they did their due diligence in setting it up... but the reveal was still somewhat startling, and only left me thinking, "They found a way to get the *whole world* eating that corn syrup?"

monsanto doesn't play around.

I thought the well-edited cell phone video was strange as well but I let it slide.