Cornell and Stegman relaunch Wolverine
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Wolverine is yet another title joining All-New Marvel Now with a new number one. At first the news may have been slightly disheartening, due to the fact that this series pre-existed and is being launched so soon. The comic has been naturally building to something, but it may not be different enough to warrant a completely new volume number. Writer Paul Cornell is back on the title along with new artist Ryan Stegman. The scribe just started really delivering the goods with the recent Killable arc on the book. This news is mostly positive, but then the teaser images throws things off a little bit with Wolverine holding a gun. The new costume, claws, and guns just scream like readers accidently took a time machine back to the 90’s. It also feels like this story is going to be more editorial drive, because it is hard to imagine Paul Cornell organically making all of these decisions. Here is a quote on the book from an interview with the author from CBR.
Readers who've been with us for the previous volume will see this new story as developing out of what happened there, we hope, but new readers will be absolutely able to treat this as a new title, with a new situation. In the last three issues of "Killable," Logan takes Kitty Pryde into a terrible situation, and the end point of that changes everything. In "Payback," the first four issues of the new run, we start with Logan working for a small time super villain as an enforcer, and keep flashing back to how, in the wake of "Killable," all his relationships crumbled.
His new role is the format for the series. We explore what the life of a minor villain in the Marvel Universe is like, and the tough moral choices Logan has to make. He still feels, for example, that he won't kill innocents, and that's part of the new deal he's made.
The illustrator also had some fascinating insight into how he will be drawing Wolverine.
I have felt that there's been this move to make Wolverine look very heroic lately. Sometimes he's not drawn short, and he's handsome and he puffs out his chest, etc. When I draw Wolverine I immediately get into the mindset of making him more animalistic. I like him to be hunched over and short and stocky. I like him to be a little bit scary on top of being heroic. It's a delicate balance, but it's just how I feel about the character.
It will be interesting to see him react to threats differently in this series. Some times we'll see him listening to his instincts and diving head first into a fight. Other times he'll tackle threats from a distance.
The series begins in February 2014.
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