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In a story that has been building over the last year the coming months will culminate with the death of arguably the most popular and overused character in comics.
When writer Paul Cornell took over Wolverine he stated that he was taking the character somewhere a bit different and that it was going to be big. His first storyline certainly seemed to be doing that as, infected by an alien virus Wolverine lost his healing factor. All of a sudden he could be wounded, injured, get illness and age normally meaning death was just around the corner. He also gained a apparently permanent scar across his face.
But this was just a starting point: Not only did Logan have to come to term with his new mortality, but as everyone became aware of his new weakness he became a bigger than normal target.
It is something that is all set to come together next month with the Death of Wolverine.
(It should be noted that this is not the first time that Wolverine has lost his healing factor, it happened back in the late 80's/early 90's. It was established back then that without the factor the character would slowly start dying as the adamantanium in his skeleton would start to poison him. Something that had to be corrected when it was pointed out in the current run)
Probably not the last we will see of the character (duh!) but a period of adjustment to see how the Marvel universe can survive without the only character that appears in every title every month. Or so it seems.
When writer Paul Cornell took over Wolverine he stated that he was taking the character somewhere a bit different and that it was going to be big. His first storyline certainly seemed to be doing that as, infected by an alien virus Wolverine lost his healing factor. All of a sudden he could be wounded, injured, get illness and age normally meaning death was just around the corner. He also gained a apparently permanent scar across his face.
But this was just a starting point: Not only did Logan have to come to term with his new mortality, but as everyone became aware of his new weakness he became a bigger than normal target.
It is something that is all set to come together next month with the Death of Wolverine.
(It should be noted that this is not the first time that Wolverine has lost his healing factor, it happened back in the late 80's/early 90's. It was established back then that without the factor the character would slowly start dying as the adamantanium in his skeleton would start to poison him. Something that had to be corrected when it was pointed out in the current run)
Probably not the last we will see of the character (duh!) but a period of adjustment to see how the Marvel universe can survive without the only character that appears in every title every month. Or so it seems.
