And I don’t mean scared in the way of, “My beastial nature is too much so I have to forever walk a lonely path”. Wolverine is “piss in your pants there’s a monster hiding under the bed waiting to eat me and I’m totally helpless” scared.
Whedon gets points from me for making Wolverine this kind of scared. You rarely get to see him that way. Normally he’s too busy being a badass or striking the angry pose to bother showing fear.
The following is taken from John Cassaday‘s awesome cover artwork for an upcoming Astonishing X-Men cover. He gets all the creative points. I merely rearranged it and added perspective with well placed blurring so as to have a neat looking desktop for a few weeks. This is usually the time it takes for me to get bored with the image and move along.
“Torn”, the current arc on Astonishing X-Men is slow in coming, we’re talking Planetary slow(this began around 1999 and is currently on issue 25) or mountains crumbling into the sea slow, but it is not lacking in amusement. The latest Big Bad’s being what I think is the new Hellfire Club featuring Xavier’s evil twin sister Cassandra Nova, Danger, the classic Sebastian Shaw, the treacherous Emma Frost and several others who have chosen not named themselves yet.
It’s times like these when I appreciate the graphic novel form. One complete story in your hands with only your own laziness in the way of finishing it.
