tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post7311998035421909547..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-amining Wolverine #3Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-17366393322261372932019-01-09T13:25:43.979-06:002019-01-09T13:25:43.979-06:00Yeah, I agree with Jason, the dialogue was clear t...Yeah, I agree with Jason, the dialogue was clear to me that Silver Samurai knows it's Logan ... but also that he doesn't give a you-know-what about it.Jeff Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-78743007070945607242014-07-24T02:51:04.860-05:002014-07-24T02:51:04.860-05:00"This is the last we'll see or hear of th..."This is the last we'll see or hear of the blade."<br /><br />***Of the evil demon that possesses people, yes, but the blade itself remains the Samurai's weapon o' choice for at least a little while. He explicitly name-checks it the next time he shows up in this series, for example. (Circa Wolverine #56.)<br /><br />"making it even harder to believe that neither Silver Samurai nor Lindsay recognize him"<br /><br />*** The Samurai does recognize him. That's clear from his final dialogue, which references Logan possessing the honor sword of Clan Yashida. And, from Wolverine's narration it seems certain that he knows he's been recognized, talking about how he and Harada seem to have finally made peace after this episode, despite the "bad blood" between them from the past.<br /><br />(Although this raises the question of why he's so blase. If the whole point of faking their death was to protect the X-Men's loved ones, it seems like Logan might be a tad agitated by someone so close to Mariko -- his main loved one -- learning he's still alive.)<br />Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13298753675007196538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-21465315194052765532014-07-21T20:34:43.456-05:002014-07-21T20:34:43.456-05:00It felt pretty random for Lindsay and the Samurai ...<br>It felt pretty random for Lindsay and the Samurai to enter The Princess Bar. Maybe it's a likely place for them to hole up, but there's no reintroduction of O'Donnell, no indication that either character knew him, no mention that the Black Blade cultists had been trussed up there. I was confused to the point that I had to reassure myself that I had read #2 (which I did by recalling the endings of both previous issues, and I <i>still</i> almost went to look at it).<br /><br /><i>// Kevin Nowlan provides the back cover illustration. //</i><br /><br />Gruesome and gorgeous.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-87520599251123747422014-07-20T21:23:19.389-05:002014-07-20T21:23:19.389-05:00though Claremont can no longer ignore the characte...<i>though Claremont can no longer ignore the character's burgeoning popularity (or the desires of his Editor-in-Chief) such that he's writing a solo book for Wolverine, he still has enough clout to write the book in a manner he finds interesting, consistent with the somewhat atypical status quo of X-Men at the time and well outside the usual structure and story beats of a traditional solo hero book. And that, in and of itself, is rather fascinating.</i><br /><br />In some way I feel this... holding back by Claremont had its part in building up the apparently insatiable hunger for Wolverine on the markets. One perhaps kind of waits for him to (finally) show up drawn by Jim Lee in the blue&yellow costume in an epic super hero epic, but something in Wolverine fights back on the whole premises, being your traditional superhero, like an Brood embryo, and the hunger-filling satisfaction really can never come. Which is good for Marvel's business.<br /><br />A massively fun bit is that when Claremont returns on <i>Wolverine</i> for the giant-sized anniversary issue #125 in 1998, it's a Madripoor story with Jessie Drew popping up... and Rogue and Viper, and Kitty and Yukio, and Black Widow, and Tyger Tiger. And Jubilee on the run in some <i>very</i> familiar scenes. Mostly ignoring 100 issues worth of other people's stories. Like a pro.Teemunoreply@blogger.com