Wolverine's Sexual Inadequacies
Because likeadeuce said I should post these, after our conversation last night. (Sadly, these scans were already posted to scans_daily, so I only get to inflict this ridiculousness on my friendslist.)
The first issue of Brian K. Vaughan's "Logan" miniseries was promising. Good writing, interesting art, a take on Logan that felt right for the character and his history. It was, essentially, what Wolverine: Origins should be. And I'm a big fan of BKV's work.
This week, though, I'm beginning to doubt my positive assessment of his grasp of Logan's character:
Now, I'm willing to believe that Logan might feel those sorts of insecurities - maybe, assuming his memory of his past with, say, Silver Fox has been blocked at this point. But saying them out loud? Apologizing over and over again for his sexual inadequacy, while curled up against a wall, hiding his face?
I feel like Logan has been replaced by...I don't know, the so-called "ugly" girl in some generic teen movie. "All the mean girls at school said I wasn't pretty enough to go to the prom with a popular boy like you, and maybe they were right!"
Dear BKV: You're writing Wolverine, not Rachel Leigh Cook in She's All That. For that matter, you're writing Wolverine, not Runaways.
This might be the first time in Wolverine's entire continuity that someone has assumed he was a virgin.
And, really. PORCELAIN DOLL? It's going to be a very long time before I stop laughing at that one.
Oh, and at the end of this issue, Logan gets hit by the atomic bomb. Because apparently they were running out of new and creative ways to hurt him.
I'll definitely read the last issue of this mini, because it is still a solid story with mostly-good writing, but man did that sequence feel off.
The first issue of Brian K. Vaughan's "Logan" miniseries was promising. Good writing, interesting art, a take on Logan that felt right for the character and his history. It was, essentially, what Wolverine: Origins should be. And I'm a big fan of BKV's work.
This week, though, I'm beginning to doubt my positive assessment of his grasp of Logan's character:
Now, I'm willing to believe that Logan might feel those sorts of insecurities - maybe, assuming his memory of his past with, say, Silver Fox has been blocked at this point. But saying them out loud? Apologizing over and over again for his sexual inadequacy, while curled up against a wall, hiding his face?
I feel like Logan has been replaced by...I don't know, the so-called "ugly" girl in some generic teen movie. "All the mean girls at school said I wasn't pretty enough to go to the prom with a popular boy like you, and maybe they were right!"
Dear BKV: You're writing Wolverine, not Rachel Leigh Cook in She's All That. For that matter, you're writing Wolverine, not Runaways.
This might be the first time in Wolverine's entire continuity that someone has assumed he was a virgin.
And, really. PORCELAIN DOLL? It's going to be a very long time before I stop laughing at that one.
Oh, and at the end of this issue, Logan gets hit by the atomic bomb. Because apparently they were running out of new and creative ways to hurt him.
I'll definitely read the last issue of this mini, because it is still a solid story with mostly-good writing, but man did that sequence feel off.