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| Wolverine: Origin (Marvel Premiere Classic) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Paul Jenkins, Joe Quesada, Bill Jemas
Creator: Andy Kubert
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  95 reviews
Sales Rank: 52402
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 200
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 7 x 0.6
ISBN: 0785123288
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780785123286
ASIN: 0785123288
Publication Date: November 1, 2006
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Collecting the best-selling - and controversial - romantic period piece that defied industry expectations and pulled back the curtain on Wolverine's mysterious past! At long last, all is revealed about the incredible forces that molded the world's most perfect killing machine with a heart as big as the great outdoors. Collects Wolverine: Origin #1-6
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Interesting Wolverine origin ideas November 19, 2008
Wolverine: Origin is a take on the childhood and maturation of Wolverine. While not necessarily in direct continuity, it manages to both leave itself open to interpretation and apply to the currently-known history of Wolverine.
The basic plotline is this: a young girl by the name of Rose loses her family and is sent to live with another, much richer family to serve as a companion to the homeowner's son James. James' father John, John's wife, and John's father all tend to the business at hand while also delegating work out to poorer families, most notably Thomas and his son Logan. Rose, Logan, and James all become friends until romantic tension between Logan and Rose threaten to rip the disrupt the balance between the two prominent families.
To continue on would be to spoil some of the book's best surprises, so I will leave it there.
The art within by Andy Kubert and Richard Isanove sets the mood for the book perfectly. The younger years of the main characters are represented with colorful, natural scenes with a soft, comfortable hue. They lend well to the earlier chapters of the book, though the colors and scenery change to a more dark and grim tone getting towards the end. Kubert's pencils do a fine job with facial expressions and action-filled scenes, where Isanove's colors lend both beautiful and haunting shades to the world being presented.
This is Wolverine's origin, and it is understandably pretty grim. While there may not be opulent gore, there are a few brutal killings littered throughout the story, as well as a handful of bloody scenes. The plot, while not terribly complex, does serve as a great starting point for the general mindset of Wolverine, and does a wonderful job of putting the reader into his shoes.
The only real downfall to the book is that it just isn't what you would expect, given the character. As I said, it does a fine job, but knowing the premise, one may have totally different expectations as to what happens to create this particular being.
As always, Marvel Premiere (now Classic!) hardcovers are of the utmost quality. The back of the book contains cover sketches, initial plot concepts, and miscellaneous artwork. Also, the dust jacket on this particular book seems to attract dust and fingerprints, essentially negating the intended purpose. This is probably due to its matte-like surface. I always take them off, but for those who leave them on, be forewarned.
I would recommend this book to fans of Wolverine, though I think that would be the crowd to like it the least. For someone without a rich depth of Wolverine knowledge, the book should prove to be a wonderful read.
 Ok - just not as good as I hoped it would be November 2, 2008
I'm very happy with the overall story-line that they gave Wolverine in this Origin story. I didn't expect too much like some other readers did- I don't need to know quite yet all of Logan's secrets, and I'm actually happy about that. Trying to fit the character's entire history into a short 6 issue series would have been asking for too much. But there are some things I liked with Origin, some things I didn't. I'll start with what I liked: The plot is good. I don't want to give anything away (some mild spoilery clues follow), but the morally stand-out character and father figure who clearly influenced Logan's good heart is handled well. The mysteries and implications about his mother, her relationships and her past children are good, understated, and left ultimately to the reader to decide what they think about it, which is excellent writing. The character of Rose bears a striking resemblance to a well-known character in Logan's life and she is another good-hearted important addition to the Wolverine mythos. The art is gorgeous, although some of the characters can be difficult to discern, which I know is probably done on purpose, but it just distracted me from the story. I like the character of who Logan is and seeing his healing factor manifest for the first time, changing him from a sick little boy to someone almost impossible to harm, is awesome. However, in the same scene his claws manifest and that particular part of the manifestation I just didn't really like. Let's see them claws baby! Now on to more I didn't like: Logan's relationship with the wild, animal world and wild, animal part of himself just doesn't work within the story. It just didn't gel. I didn't buy that this kid adapted to the wild and became an animal because of these events, most importantly, because he can't remember the events! So why was he driven into the wild? I think this could have been handled much better. Give me some motivations as to why he is out hunting and running with wolves. The story is a little too predictable. Certain characters are made to look certain ways in an effort to confuse the readers and it just makes the payoff less effective. And most of all, the story just lacks oomph. I was never blown away by it, it was just ok. I didn't get any of Logan's personality in it. We are thrown bits and pieces of his personality through learning where he picked up certain behavioral traits or sayings or fascinations, but we never see him grow into Logan. In reality, Logan is missing from his own origin story. It's almost more about the characters around him than he himself, and that's the #1 problem with this story.
It looks really good, but aside from that, it's really just OK June 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just finished reading Origins, and It really is a spectacular looking series. Andy Kubert's art is amazing, as is befitting a legend such as he. But the story... in complete honesty, I could have come up with a better and more interesting story. It's not that it's awful... far from it, in fact. It has some intriguing bits, some genuinely intriguing bits, some hints at connections to other characters central to Wolverine. Wondering just who exactly Wolverine's father REALLY is, a possible brother... even a possible Sabretooth in there. And the claw marks on his mother, done in Wolverine characteristic wound patten. But really, all-together after reading this, I was left thinking " ...and?"
People definitely should read this miniseries. It's worth that much, at the very least. And it's an interesting read. But as for the "origin" of the Wolverine, one of Marvel's flagship characters and the champion of the X-Men...I just expected more. I understand that this was written in a hurry, after the success of the first X-Men movie and talks of a Wolverine solo spin-off movie,that they wanted to make sure that Logan's story was told in the comics instead of having it written by a committee of hack Hollywood writers. But I would have done so much more. Had him be older than just from the 1880's, for one thing. Had him travel across the world, visiting Japan in the past, or at least meeting a genuine Samurai, to explain his later fascination with and attraction to Samurai ideals. I like how they worked his attraction to redheads (in the form of a pretty solid Jean Grey prototype) into the story, and even how he picked up the phrase "bub" and other tendencies. But it just left me wanting more, and more interesting, events that eventually subconsciously shaped the man that became Wolverine. It was all too pat, too self-contained in such a short number of years. I would have had it last 12 issues and cover a span of decades, not just the 8 or so that it does. Logan has had his mind mucked with so much, that there could have been so many more things subconsciously at play in his later self revealed in this series.
The basic story WAS a good basis. But it could have included so much more. So many more details, so much more background, so much more PLOT.
If ANYONE should have written this, it should have been Chris Claremont and possibly Frank Miller... although, with Miller's current tendencies toward misogyny and just flat-out craziness, maybe just Claremont. Claremont shaped the character, MADE Logan what his is today. If anyone should have written his origin, which I truly think should have never been fully revealed, only hinted at, it really should have been the man who wrote home for 16 years and took him from a simple homicidal, amoral beast to a man struggling with inner demons yet struggling to live a life of honor, full complexity and mystery and inner turmoil.
If only Qesada hadn't yet again been so full of arrogance that he decided to take a character who's almost primary defining characteristic and major source of appeal was his ambiguous past and hidden mysteries, and expose those mysteries for all to see. I can understand the reasoning,but that doesn't mean that I agree with it, or it's outcome.
So,at the end,I will say that I think people should read this series, it isn't horrid... but I think that, in the end, many people have been and will be feeling much as I am right now, wondering what COULD have been, and how much better it should have been done... or even if it should ever have been done at all.
I guess I'd give it 3 out of 5 stars. Or maybe 6 out of 10. Just a bit better than middle of the road. But definitely not nearly as much as Wolverine deserved as his supposed Origin.
 a BIG "meh" June 22, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I pretty much liked the whole book up until about the last 5 very rushed pages. Spoilers: I assume Logan is really victor creed...but doesnt explain how he gets the name, nor does it explain how his scar across his face heals, nor does it explain why he's even angrey. Because James killed the father he hated? or because James ratted him out? OK...whatever...that is certainly not enough to justify the raging war these two carry on for a lifetime. The book really doesnt reveal anything and it kinda gives lame reasons for why certain things are the way they are. I'm gonna have to pretend I didnt read it.
Nature vs Nurture? May 21, 2008
I know that I tend to read comics a bit differently. The artwork is, of course, great (though we have seen plenty of poorly drawn, brilliant comics). The narrative and story-beats are also crucial. This story does well on both fronts.
But what I have always enjoyed about comics is how they explore complex human situations within their heightened reality, and expose a newness to these philosophies. This is why I have always enjoyed, say, Superman as much as Batman, because each explores a different part of the human psyche and soul.
Origin explores that terribly complex question of how much is a part of what makes up who we are as beings. Are we born with our intrinsic functionality, or are those aspects of our being developed through our education and experience?
The story does unfold in an rare and interesting way, not akin to other comic storylines. Yes, other reviews are correct, there are some flaws, and the end was, if anything rushed, but this is also an incredibly interesting approach to a very mysterious question. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
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