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just got around to reading it last month. i liked it. i know frank miller isn't very popular here, but you gotta admit it was a good spin on the character. oh and what was your favorite mini series or prematurely cancelled run.
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I know the whole "Ronin" thing is totally played out these days, but I think Claremont and Miller really gave the character an entirely new light in this miniseries by showing that he wasn't just a Berserker, and really had some potential and tragedy as a solo character beyond being just the brawler within the team dynamics of the X-Men. It really gave him something to strive for and struggle with as a character.
I thought the follow up mini was interesting, but didn't quite strike the right chords of the relationship between the two characters, particularly if they were going back to the well again and trying to capture that feel of a classic samurai film.
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I love the Kitty/Wolverine seriesLooking for Infinite Heroes Robin and Catwoman
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The Kitty/Wolverine mini had art by Al Milgrom, no? I didn't like it......Think OUTSIDE the Box! For the BEST in Repro & Custom Packaging!Comment
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x-men 172 & 173. the follow up to the mini series wasn't as good, but silver samurai became a popular x-men mainstay.Comment
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I was 13 when Miller's Wolverine mini series came out, and to say it blew me (and all my friends) away would be an understatement. It was easily one of the defining comics of my generation of comic geeks, which would be in the 1977-86 range.
The Kitty Pryde/Wolvie series was a contrived, copycat joke in comparison.Comment
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Hmmmm....
Was that where he first met ninjas? When I was a kid I didn't care, 'cos I didn't like superheroes. I DID read it years later (when I was at the U) and I if it's the one I remember I thought it was kinda odd. It's one of the first rewritings of a character's history that I remember, and well.... ninjas. I think in the early 80's everybody HAD to fight ninjas.
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it was pretty good for it's time and this is where if you only look ate anti frant statements but not the deeper content it can make you think he's unpopular. Frank's recent actions (especially as a film director/consultant) aren't popular. I think most people do like his early work (if they didn't he never could have gotten an overblown as he's become).
I think of Todd Mcfarlane the same way I loved what he did with spiderman in the late 80's and 90's but Spawn and his forrays into grotuesque toy like items I don't
the guys from before 86 never seemed to get so absorbed in their hypeComment
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The Wolverine mini by Claremont and Miller is classic as is the follow up arc in Uncanny X-Men around issue 172 or 173. To me, those two stories are the only essential Wolverine stories after Claremont and Byrne's excellent run on the X-Men. Everything that has been tacked on since is gravy or icing or excess — take your pick. The includes Weapon X — which I liked — and the woeful origin, which sucks hind tit.
Like any character or series that's survived decades that hits its pinnacle , some of what came later is good, a lot of it has been average and some has been awful. But, to me, Claremont/Miller/Smith reached Everest with the character with those two arcs.Last edited by madmarva; Sep 24, '09, 11:09 AM.Comment
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Milgrom was a good editor and I liked him as an inker on a lot of stuff, but his pencils never did it for me. Like he was trying to do cross-hatching with those big, think kindergarten crayons. Yuck. And he did so much work for Marvel in the 1980s. Must have been incredibly fast. Never could get through Secret Wars II and most of it was because of his art.Comment
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Milgrom has a good idea for design, and I think Marvel should have made him their cover designer or something. I never cared much for his interior work. He did seem to ink with a Magnum .44 marker.
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