{"id":1242,"date":"2006-05-29T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2006-05-29T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T20:11:00","slug":"a-short-look-at-wolverine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"A Short Look at Wolverine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“X-Men: The Last Stand”<\/span> opened beyond all expectations earning just over <\/span>$120 million dollars<\/span> this weekend. That’s the <\/span>biggest opening ever<\/span> for the <\/span>Memorial Day weekend<\/span>, the <\/span>fourth best three-day opening ever<\/span> as well as the <\/span>best single Friday in movie history<\/span> [<\/span>$45.5 million<\/span>]. Earning that kind of bank almost insures a sequel. My guess is that before the next <\/span>X-Men<\/span> movie comes out we’ll see a film that focuses just on <\/span>Wolverine<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wolverine<\/span> used to be my favorite comic character. That was back in the days when <\/span>Chris Claremont<\/span> [writer], <\/span>John Byrne<\/span> [penciler] and <\/span>Terry Austin<\/span> [inker] were amazing everyone with the classic comics that they were creating. At that time <\/span>Wolverine<\/span> was the cool secondary character that would have only a scene or two, but more likely than not, they’d be THE scenes that you’d remember.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not much was known about <\/span>Wolverine<\/span>. What we did know made him an unlikely <\/span>American<\/span> comic book hero. He was from Canada<\/span>. He was a loner. He was just a bit over five feet tall. He had a berserker rage and would actually kill those who threatened him or his friends. No other hero in comics looked or acted like <\/span>Wolverine<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course over the years, because of the popularity of the character, he’s been over-exposed. He’s been a secret agent, a team leader, a father figure, a pirate, etc., etc. etc..<\/span><\/p>\n

Even his look has changed. <\/span>Hugh Jackman<\/span> is tall and lean. <\/span>Wolverine<\/span> should be short and stout [no teapot jokes, please]. <\/span>Robert Blake<\/span> in his prime would have made a great Wolverine.<\/span><\/p>\n

The classic <\/span>Wolverine<\/span> is still <\/span>Byrne and Austin<\/span>‘s version. <\/span>Frank Miller and Joe Rubinstein<\/span>‘s take is also a favorite of mine. Not too long ago I talked about some new riffs on<\/span> Wolverine<\/span>. <\/span>Joe Lisner’s Wolverine<\/a> looks interesting too. All of these guys draw the shorter <\/span>Wolverine<\/span>, like he’s supposed to be. The funny thing is, most folks who only know <\/span>Wolverine<\/span> from the movies will think that he should be drawn taller.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“X-Men: The Last Stand” opened beyond all expectations earning just over $120 million dollars this weekend. That’s the biggest opening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,56,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-movies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}