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All together now: Never give the ______ what they ______ they _______. . .

Nope, he was pretty much just slicing away just as if they were made of
Adamantium. What was the point, then?

All together now: Never give the ______ what they ______ they _______. . .

Heh As it's made him rich and successful I heard Simon Cowell say he'll have the opposite of that on his gravestone. "he gave the people what they wanted"

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The bone claws are symbolic of a general malaise in superhero comics -- namely that a point is all too often reached where all thought turns inward, and writers and editors stop building and instead begin a process of endless "reinvention". It happened to Superman, with a long period in which the most innovative idea anybody could come up with was to introduce yet ANOTHER Kryptonian leftover, it happened to characters like Batman and the Flash, as the stories became an endless parade of gimmicks -- and, eventually, it happened to Wolverine.

Some of this comes from the way Chris' mind works. Before I joined the team, and when I was still on the book, he was constantly looking for ways to use the character's powers, not all of which made a whole lot of sense. Some slipped thru, such as Storm being able to use her weather manipulating abilities to reshape the unstable molecules of her costume into a variety of outfits. Some did not, such as Banshee being able to creat "sonic holograms", or Kitty being able "phase" thru dimensions.

Problem is, once you start down that path, it can turn into a series of dead ends -- like bone claws.

I thought so, too! Excellent use of light and shadow.

Was that the Calgary urban cowboy look? ;)