Originally Posted by
johnnyjam2233
So I'm 43, and I've been reading comics since I was 13 so I'm 30 years deep now. I've actually had the luxury of jumping UP AND DOWN in happiness when an Oscar was won by someone playing the Joker, and NOT just playing the Joker, but by playing the Joker after Jack Nicholson, an Oscar winning actor that played the Joker first, had won an Oscar by playing a comic book character. I still say that Unbreakable, a comicbook movie not based on a comic book, Batman Begins, and Dark Knight are the reasons why there are so many good comic book movies being made. Other then Unbreakable, it's only been about 15 years of more mature comic book movies being made, but since I started reading comics at the age of 13, there's been adult themed comic book stories been written. Dark Knight Returns, Year One, Killing Joke, Watchman are the prime examples. Now those are Batman books, and Watchman for so long was a story about characters that represented other characters that no knew who they were anyway.
There has ALWAYS been one character that stood out tho. Even tho Spider-Man, Superman, and Batman had movies, or cartoons (before they were called animated, they were called cartoons) there was one character that a LOT of people knew about. He had a cool name, maybe the best name argumentatively, with a weird punk rockish hair style, and knives on his hands. Those that didn't read comics and thought comics were for children would see him, and wonder naively how a childrens product could have a character with such a cool name, have knives on his hands. I'm talking about of course WOLVERINE!!!!
I first saw him in a Spider-man and friends Saturday cartoon with an Australian accent and fell in love. I got into comics, and jumped on X-Men because of him. Over the years, he's become my favorite character and relatable character. My favorite stories by him are Mark Millar's Enemy of the State part one and two, and Old Man Logan, but I love the Old Man Logan run by Jeff Lemire drawn by Andrea Sorrentino. The art in Lemire's Old Man Logan is insane. I thought it took a lot of balls to take on that run after Miller made such a classic, but Bendis did a great job, and Lemire did better job. I love a lot of Wolverine stories. I think Wolverine vs Spider-man back in the 80's really captured him the best. First off, it opens with Wolverine fighting baddies behind the Berlin wall, and it states how the blood was flowing, and going higher the the height of the wall, and comics in the 80's didn't state such things, but at the end when he's fighting Spider-man, Spider-man's narration is saying how Peter Parker pulls his punches, but he's hitting Wolverine as HARD as he can, and Wolverine is laughing at him. How his blows would break concrete walls, and he's doing nothing to stop Wolverine and Wolverine just keeps pushing forward. It shows why Wolverine is as tough as he is, and can fight the Hulk and just get up and keep fighting. I relate with Wolverine because I'm from Chicago and I'm a scrapper and I've been in a lot of fights, and I've stood up for people against bullies. When Bendis was writing the Avengers and put Wolverine in the book and Captain America was hesitant because he kills, Iron Man told Cap that's he's not a killer, but he's a samurai and that made sense. what are your favorite Wolverine stories?