The time’s, they are a-changin’. Wolverine, the immortal Canadian superhero that’s been at the center of the X-Franchise for years, is now mortal, having lost his healing factor in Paul Cornell’s run with Alan Davis and the storyline “Killable.”
So, starting in February, Ryan Stegman joins Cornell for a re-launched “Wolverine” series, going back to #1 and putting the ol’ Canucklehead in a whole new ball park: working with the bad guys. Apparently, Logan is going to don new duds, grab some guns and go to work for a crime boss called The Offer as Logan apparently abandons some of his responsibilities. Aspects of the previous run of “Wolverine” will carry on, though the mind-controlling virus villain from Cornell’s run with Davis that took away his powers will not be a part of the story, being replaced as the Big Bad by the return of Sabretooth to the pages of “Wolverine.”
This is pretty exciting, as both a fan of Cornell and Stegman’s work. And while Stegman has been doing a great job on his issues of “Superior Spider-Man” with Dan Slott, it’ll be nice to see him take on a different type of character, one just as active but a bit more brutal. Given that we’re apparently seeing a whole new Logan here (or at least, a whole new side of Logan), it certainly gives lots of opportunities to play around with the character and his continuing role in the Marvel U. Time to shake it up!
Unfortunately, I will now be unable to continue singing Ryan Stegman’s theme to the tune of the classic Spider-Man theme (“Ryan Steg-Man, Ryan Steg-Man, does whatever a Ryan Steg-can…”). That’s the only real downside I see here.
