Marvel going back to the Wolverine: Origin well for another adamantium dip
Wolverine: Origin III — The Dark Age #1 slices into comic shops on December 16.
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It’s been so long since Marvel Comics published Wolverine: Origin—25 years, in fact—that it’s hard for some comic readers to recall a time when the coolest thing about Wolverine was that we knew next to nothing about him. Origin, with a story by Paul Jenkins, Bill Jemas, and Joe Quesada and art by Adam Kubert and Richard Isanove, accomplished what was once considered a break-in-case-of-emergency creative measure. It revealed the murky history of Ol’ Canucklehead over a century before the Weapon X program rendered him unbreakable.
Now, the publisher returns to the Origin well for another adamantium dip with Wolverine: Origin III — The Dark Age. The five-issue limited series pairs returning writer Paul Jenkins with artist Carlos Alberto Fernández Urbano (codename: CAFU) to shed even more light on Logan’s pre-X-Men past. This is Jenkins’ second Origin; writer Kieron Gillen and artist Andy Kubert took on Wolverine: Origin II in 2013. This new entry in the “James Howlett” saga, touted as “a psychologically driven and harrowing tale,” brings Wolvie to the 1950s and promises less ferocity and violence for the character, at least at first.
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