Comments on: My Golden Age: Our Hero Misses the Wounded Wolverine

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:39:27 +0000

This is an issue with any popular character, it’s happening with Deadpool right now. Deadpool set on fire before was no big deal, he was already disfigured and he would just heal from it. Now he just got set on fire w/o his healing factor and he didn’t even realize it or feel the pain from it. I remember reading wolverine when he had just his bone claws and some wrote stories where he was still slicing through anything, I finally gave up and thought it was stupid.

By: Dave Marchand

Dave Marchand — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:15:17 +0000

A character doesn’t get more interesting by a writer putting limitations on that character….a writer finds ways to take what they have, limit it, and make it interesting. Spectre was never more powerful than under John Ostrander…and never more interesting.

Ditto for Tony Stark/Iron Man (do a search here for an early Iron Man article of mine….), and the same is true for Wolverine. After all, didn’t Wolvie NOT heal in X-Men #142 (when blasted down to his bones…or, “damn it, Jim, I’m a doctor, not a janitor!”

By: C. Scott Lovejoy

C. Scott Lovejoy — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:25:22 +0000

This is also one of the reasons it’s so hard to get a good Spectre story. When you have an entity that represents the “Hand of God” and can instantly strike an entire country off the map, it’s really hard to come up with a suitable challenge. An invulnerable god-like character is pretty boring.

By: M. Lapham

M. Lapham — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:23:35 +0000

Well, the first par of my post is gone, so here it was…

I am going to have to begrudgingly agree with you. A similar thing happened to batman. From 1970- 2000, he was tough and smart, but after that he was unbeatable. No one could out think or out fight him. The essence of a story is struggle. If the hero isn’t struggling the story diminishes. And, call me the stereotypical comic geek, but I don’t want to but a diminished story. And I don’t. The fact is that ol’ Bruce and Logan get to these points it becomes harder to tell a good story and plot and characterization often suffer. The struggle often becomes ludicrous. In the 50’s Super man got so powerful nothing was difficult. This is what created the market for “The Marvel Revolution” of 1961 and beyond. I can’t help but wonder if the writers admiration for the character and fan based discussions sometimes over power a natural instinct for story telling.

And now for your previous post…
You know there is a whole gamete between friend and enemy, so feel free to expand your world and vocabulary

(this is where the other post begins, I don’t know why this was cut off)