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        | John Byrne 
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          Those panels demonstrate a problem many artists seem to have when drawing Wolverine--they can't get his hair right.  I think most of them take the Beast as a default setting, but whereas Hank McCoy's hair is bristly and does tend to create a smooth surface between the side plumes, Logan's hair is much more tousled, and conforms to the shape of his skull.  The plumes on the sides are separate entities.
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        | Matthew Chartrand Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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   Question for JB:     Wolverine's past has been altered by so many creators over the years. 
  Do you have your history or timeline of Wolverine you could share with us? | 
       
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        | John Byrne 
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          I think Wolverine should have a mostly secret history. I’ll be addressing this.
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        | Vinny Valenti Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Agreed. The Mantlo/Buscema scene should be considered to be "Day 1" for Wolverine - his first contact with characters that we already know, and his first memory after getting the claws.
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        | Andrew Bitner Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          I agree that Wolverine worked much better with a mysterious history. For all that it sold a lot, ORIGIN was a mistake.
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        | John Byrne 
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          On SO many levels!!!!!!
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        | James Woodcock Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          I can't even begin to describe the disdain I have for
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 Everything that was good about Wolverine died in that
 series. HOUSE OF M just kicked the corpse by giving him
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        | Doug Centers Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          The way it sounds, I sure am glad I have know clue what you guys are talking about!
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        | Scott Barnett Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          You're better off that way, Doug.
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 I did like BWS's Weapon X story, though. Besides it being gorgeous to look at, it showed the events of Logan being turned into a killing machine without a whole lot more being revealed. | 
       
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        | Ron Grant Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Wolverines hair I like to think of as
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 Top of hair pushed down and sides sticking
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        | Andrew Bitner Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          It's hard to put that "mysterious past" genie back in the bottle, because now some writer somewhere will dredge it up or fans online will say "look, it's CANON now!" etc.
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 |  Some decisions are made for bad reasons and lead to lasting mistakes. As JB notes, ORIGIN was a mistake on many levels--and that's sad, because you can't recapture mystery all that easily (if at all) once you throw it away. 
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        | Wallace Sellars Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          I'm worried about what Phoenix will do now that she can no longer detect the people in the safe room. Cyclops is a lot braver than I because hidden under a rock is where you'd likely find me at this point.
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