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WOLVERINE: ORIGIN II
Written by KIERON GILLEN
Art by ADAM KUBERT
NOVEMBER 2013
Kieron Gillen:
I believe the first series ended in 1898. We're picking things up a few years later, and Logan has been living in the woods all that time. When we last saw him in "Origin," he had killed his first love and rejected humanity by deciding he would go run with the wolves for awhile.
For those of you that are really up on your Wolverine continuity, this takes place a few years before Silver Fox.
This is a story about Wolverine's early days that deals with a core question about his character. It's a story about him learning to heal. It's a story about family and loss. He's a man with a healing factor, and this is about him coming to terms with the wounds his mutant ability cannot heal. That's the emotional heart to the story.
He's stopped living with humans at the start of this story. This is him learning to care again and discovering what that costs.
There's very little super hero stuff in there. "Uncanny X-Men" readers have an idea of my Sinister. He's a big ham. He's quite glorious. The Nathaniel Essex in this story is quite different. He's very cold. By the time you meet him in my "Uncanny X-Men" run, he had transformed himself so much, he might not as well be human. This is him right at the start of his career.
It fits into the chronology of the Marvel Universe because it does fit with how Essex became Mister Sinister, but we pretty much play him straight in this story. He's a scientist with an interest in this emerging new species. One of the working sub titles I had for this series was "Origin of the Species." This is basically the discovery of a strange new type of human living in the woods.
I can only talk hypothetically about [Sabretooth] though in terms of this story, though, so -- speaking hypothetically -- the emotional origins of the conflict between Sabretooth and Logan is one of those big, untold stories. That would be a good thing to include in a story set in this time period. What's the reason Sabretooth turned up that fateful day Silver Fox was murdered? Why did he do what he did? Was it random chance? Fate? Or was something else going on? So those would be interesting elements to explore -- if our story did in fact feature Sabretooth. [Laughs]
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