The Young Avengers is a wonderful group of superheroes - a new generation of superheroes with initiative and drive, who want to follow in the footsteps of their heroes, the Avengers. I love their comic - specifically, I love the Jim Cheung art. And it has Wiccan and Hulkling, the cutest young gay couple in comics ( Read more... )

How would Daken have turned out if Wolverine raised him?? How are they going to play this? That Daken is inevitably doomed to a sociopathic life? Or he turns out to be an accountant whose favourite hobby is golf ( Read more... )

I'm continuing my reading of Dark Wolverine's history, again with a library book: the TPB of X-Men Original Sin, which reprints six early stories about Daken and his background ( Read more... )

I continue my quest to read all appearances of Wolverine's son Daken, also known as Dark Wolverine, and my attempts to figure him out. Spine-chillingly sane, is he also as evil as he seems? What lies under his various masks? Is there anything to him but blade-sharp intelligence and cruelty? What does he want ( Read more... )

Today I picked up from the library, and read, Wolverine Origins: Dark Reign, which reprints Wolverine Origins #31 - 36, dated Feb to Jun 2009. Six issues, each one featuring both Wolverine and Daken. Except for random panels online, I hadn't seen those two together before. This is the storyline in which Wolverine and Daken go after Romulus, ( Read more... )

1. Can anyone here suggest a word processing program with which you can start numbering the pages automatically on page 2? Or with which you can omit page numbers from any given page or pages?

2. Anyone know where I can find Dark Wolverine fanfic? Or good X-Men slash?

Jennifer Smith's "Fantastic Fangirls: Comics and Culture", has a piece on Daken Akihiro, For Your Entertainment, comparing Daken to Adam Lambert:My new appreciation for Daken stems directly from my realization that he is the Adam Lambert of comics. Though maybe not always progressive, or always appropriate (or, frankly, always deserving of ( Read more... )

Battling, and failing to resist, my new pash. In my recent comic book reading, I've become increasingly fascinated by Daken, son of Wolverine from his first marriage to the Japanese Itsu.

I can just imagine Daken's smirk.

Daken (whose name means 'mongrel') had mostly been featured as a villain in Wolverine: Origins - or so I believe, since I' ( Read more... )