“Mutants just look scary in that black biker gear,” a nurse observes. Millar makes a similar point here, giving the reinvigourated and brainwashed Logan his old-fashioned (and more than a little knaff) yellow spandex back. Then Whedon decided that superheroes should wear spandex, so the uniforms came back. Morrison had removed the blue figure-hugging spandex and superhero chic with a more ‘normal’ black leather look, which lent the team a more stylish and almost mature feel. When Joss Whedon took over Astonishing X-Men after Grant Morrison’s fantastic New X-Men run, the first thing he did was reverse Morrison’s costuming changes. And then he resurrects the shallow, straight-to-the-point killing machine. Millar opens the book by running a sword clean through him. The first thing that Millar does here is to kill the leather-jacket-wearing social crusader version of the character. There’s nothing more complex going on there, and – as much as we may like to pretend otherwise – his shallowness and corniness is the bedrock of his success. Wolverine, he would have you suggest, is simply a short, scruffy Canadian guy with razor sharp claws and a sharp temper.
Here, writer Mark Millar is having none of that. Greg Rucka put a leather jacket on him and sent him touring America, finding the soul of the country and himself. Claremont and Miller considered him a ronin, a samurai without a master – a man trying to be better than he was. Over the years, there have been various attempts to add complexity to the character. Even an unstoppable killing machine can stop to pet the dog.
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