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Wolverine, Fathers And Sons

Published Wed, 13 Mar 2013 08:00:54 -0500

There are three Wolverine books published today. Wolverine And The X-Men #27, Wolverine #1 and Ultimate Wolverine #1.

And they all seem to have one thing on their mind. Family.

That's not surprising in Wolverine #1, by Paul Cornell and Alan Davis. A few weeks ago, I found myself chatting to Cornell, and going on about (probably too long) about Davis love for telling stories about family and how it's been a central theme of most comics that he's written. Cornell didn't give anything away, but it seems I was preaching to the converted. We have a father possessed, seemingly by a weapon, killing indiscriminately and even targeting his own son. We have a poignant moment between Wolverine and that son. And we have a Wolverine committed to saving what remains of the family. Not so much subtext as painting a large sign on the comics pages.

Then over in Ultimate Wolverine, we have Ultimate Wolverine's Ultimate son discovering a hidden message in his father's final electronic message to him, looking like he'll have to uncover one of his dad's old cases in the process. And lots of deep meaningful stares into holograms.

While in Wolverine And The X-Men, it's the return of Dog Logan, Wolverine's half brother by blood, and lots of flashbacks to when Wolverine killed his biological father.