Christmas with Wolverine!?
Origin II #1 arrives this holiday season but don’t expect a Howlett family Christmas. It’s been a decade since Marvel did the unthinkable. In Origin – the fan favorite’s mysterious past was finally revealed.
We learned Wolverine’s real name, age and birthplace. We learned of his first love, his brother and the painful, tragic circumstances surrounding the first appearance of his mutant powers.
I want to share more of writer Kieron Gillen’s new interview with Marvel.com. As Gillen explains how we pick up the early years of James Howlett after the events of Origin and finds him a wild man in the wilderness who earns his “Wolverine” legend.
“The question of how feral he is is important to the story. The characters you meet, that’s a thing they discuss, how Logan doesn’t speak much, especially early on. The first issue is silent. There’s no spoken dialogue, except maybe howls. Where ORIGIN left off, Logan has rejected everything. He’s gone off because he prefers it. Despite the enormous distress, he rejected it, in some way because he prefers it. And that’s one of the things we explore.”
Gillen redefined Mister Sinister during his Uncanny X-Men run. (see volume 1 and 4 )Now Gillen will explore the how sinister scientist first learned of the “Wolverine”‘
“He’s pretty much of his time, and pretty much the worst of his time. I’m interested in the stories like the dinosaur hunters and the “Bone Wars” between Marsh and Cope, each blowing up fossils so the other couldn’t get at them. That kind of influences it very much. We have two scientists, one who is a bit more positive, and the other one who is Mr. Sinister. That idea of dueling scientists is definitely in there. He’s very much of his time. And if you know the continuity, Mr. Sinister has kind of expected a species like this to arrive. And when [he] discovers Logan and sees him, it’s like, “My God, we’re finally here. We’re finally going to get a species to look at. I finally discovered something.
Trust me, people might call him Mr. Sinister because he’s a scary [expletive]. People have seen me write Mr. Sinister before and this is over a hundred years later and he’s transformed himself in both a literal, very “Frankenstein” way. He’s become something else of his own creation and right here he’s cold. If anyone knows Mr. Sinister’s origin, it’s kind of one of the reasons why it’s right at the core of it, he emotionally purged himself. That story is mostly set in Canada in the icy wasteland and he’s by far the coldest thing in it. So “sinister” is a good way of describing him but it’s not really a super hero name at this point. Or it’s not a public super hero name at this point. It’s the idea of Nathaniel Essex in the mold of the scientist creature. Obviously, this is one that I’ve really had to work on and I’ve gone through different drafts and different approaches. I really wanted to speak to the period it’s in. This is the period where the futurists happen. That’s the bit with the Schlieffen Plan. I think it was an earlier draft where I had bit part by Sigmund Freud in it. It’s completely digging into the mood and Sinister embodies a lot of that.”
Origin II #1 arrives December 24th.
By Editor