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Wolverine: Origin

My first instinct was to rate this book higher. It's a very good graphic novel. However, just how well it succeeds as a Wolverine Origin tale is open to interpretation.We do learn a bit about Wolverine's childhood, and there are some surprises / revelations. However, this is where things get murky. The book conveys a lot of its information through insinuation and it does leave the reader to draw some conclusions. In fact, quite a lot of the specifics are left unattended, and after discussing the story with my wife (who also read it) it became clear that a good many questions arise from this story. I was under the impression that the whole point of an Origin story was to clear the water, not muddy it some more. Oh well, that's the Wolverine mythos for you...The art is certainly good enough throughout and seemed to fit the story well. As a "superhero" story, this doesn't fare very well. It seems that the whole aim of Marvel is to make Wolverine's past as miserable and tragic as possible, so where the story does succeed is as a study on humanity and circumstance. This was definitely more drama than action, and not particularly what I was expecting.It's an important entry in the Wolverine / Marvel canon, no doubt, but I'm guessing opinions on this will vary.

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