Wolverine - News on new retcon - Spoilers

Big_Daddy_Summers

Just read this... not liking this at all!

http://nerdbastards.com/2012/08/24/wait-so-wolverine-what-and-then-huh-welcome-to-a-marvel-retcon/

SolitaireRose

First, it's a cliffhanger, so maybe (just maybe) it's a shock ending that will have a more non-retconny solution.

Second, if it IS a retcon, it shows that Marvel editors are deciding to be hands off when executives write comics....and it also shows WHY executives shouldn't write comics.

Big_Daddy_Summers

I'm hoping for the cliff hanger!

David_D

I agree with @SolitaireRose- I think the blogger at Nerdbastards is getting ahead of things to decide, 3/4ths of the story in, that there is not more to what Romulus is saying in that panel.

And even if it does turn out to be a retcon that made Weapon X Logan's idea, it will probably only stick if people get on board. It tends to be the case that new revelations about the past are only sticky if people dig it and it leads to more story potential Otherwise it falls by the wayside. And just as the past is easy to change, it is also easy to undo (e.g. Romulus is lying).

Wasn't there a Loeb/Bianchi Wolverine story years back that revealed that Logan and Sabertooth were descended from wolf people or some damn thing? I don't read Wolverine all the time, so I may have missed that revelation continuing, but in the Wolverine I do read I have never seen that referenced again. So that comes to mind as an example of an idea that didn't get traction.

WetRats

David_D said:

Wasn't there a Loeb/Bianchi Wolverine story years back that revealed that Logan and Sabertooth were descended from wolf people or some damn thing? I don't read Wolverine all the time, so I may have missed that revelation continuing, but in the Wolverine I do read I have never seen that referenced again. So that comes to mind as an example of an idea that didn't get traction.

One of the news sites showed an earlier panel from the same issue that poo-pooed the mutant wolf story.

David_D

WetRats said:

David_D said:

Wasn't there a Loeb/Bianchi Wolverine story years back that revealed that Logan and Sabertooth were descended from wolf people or some damn thing? I don't read Wolverine all the time, so I may have missed that revelation continuing, but in the Wolverine I do read I have never seen that referenced again. So that comes to mind as an example of an idea that didn't get traction.

One of the news sites showed an earlier panel from the same issue that poo-pooed the mutant wolf story.

Ah. There you go- again the things that work will likely stick, what doesn't will fall away. Nothing for bloggers to panic about.

WetRats

I wonder if there is any coordination between this and the Neal Adams X-Men: Retcon miniseries.

jaydee74

Okay. Not sure how to feel about that but there is another issue to flesh that statement out afterwards so maybe it's just lies and mind games.

WetRats

In the Neal Adams mini, Logan and Sabretooth have to convince Xavier to form the school.

random73

So....Wolverine is really Zaphod Beeblebrox? Did i read that right?

demonbear

Loeb really doesn't have great ideas...

WetRats

random73 said:

So....Wolverine is really Zaphod Beeblebrox? Did i read that right?

'twould seem so.

Share and Enjoy!

dubbat138

demonbear said:

Loeb really doesn't have great ideas...

Loeb doesn't even have good ideas.

Marathon

I don't read much Wolverine/X-Men, only really Morrison and Whedon. Have they just ignored the Weapon Ten idea and gone back to Weapon X (Ex)?

KyleMoyer

David_D said:

Wasn't there a Loeb/Bianchi Wolverine story years back that revealed that Logan and Sabertooth were descended from wolf people or some damn thing? I don't read Wolverine all the time, so I may have missed that revelation continuing, but in the Wolverine I do read I have never seen that referenced again. So that comes to mind as an example of an idea that didn't get traction.

This story is a sequel to that. Jason Aaron was starting to make Wolverine a really fun book so they had to replace him.

(actually, I have no idea if Aaron left of his own accord or not and I haven't even read his whole run, but what I have read was pleasantly surprising and every bit as good as his Wolverine and the X-Men, so I just felt like being snarky)

At least the Loeb/Bianchi issues will look pretty. There's that. What happened to the Loeb that wrote those Batman stories with Tim Sale? I want that Loeb back.

DoctorDoom

Haw!