Origins & Endings

by Daniel Way

Book Overview

Left shaken at ground zero after the cataclysmic events of House of M, Logan has no choice but to soldier on, as he done so many times before - but has the burden now become too great? In his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785119779
• ISBN13: 9780785119777
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.4"

Customer Reviews

Origins Fans Musta Have!

Well, this is a very interesting saga of our favourite mutant. For those who are reading only ORIGINS and want to know some details about how that title began, this is a MUST-HAVE TPB.

Wolverine: Origins & Endings

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Return of the Classic Wolverine

What you need to know: Marvel's "House of M" series was about Scarlet Witch using her powers to grant the wish of everyone. Wolverine's wish was to regain his memories (among other things - including his secret desire to BE Nick Fury!). After the "House of M", many things were returned back to normal but some things were changed (see "Decimation" books for more details). However, for long-term Marvel fans, one of the most important change was that Wolverine now has all his memories. And having lived for a century or more, the memories/information he had to sift through is really quite enormous. This story is the beginning of Wolverine's quest to piece all the jumbled mess of a century's worth of memory/information together again. Wolverine's character had been defined for years as the man that we really know nothing about. But that's ok for fans since we get to know the man intimately in his tales of triumphs and tragedies. Over the years, we cheered when he proposed to Mariko, we wept when he was rejected, we were shocked when his adamantium was forcefully yanked out of him, we smiled at his beer-drinking with Nightcrawler, we cringed when he went berserk during the "Weapon-X" experiment, etc. He becomes more than a comic character. He becomes an inspiration, a friend. And like our friends, we don't have to know everything about them to know them well. At the same time, because we know and cherish Wolverine, it piques our curiosity to discover more about him. Writers from Chris Claremont to Barry Windsor-Smith and Larry Hama have teased us with bits of information over the years - yet always making us hunger for more. Earlier in this decade, Marvel decided to spill the beans on Wolverine's early life in the Paul Jenkins penned series called "Origin". But that series, while adorned with pretty art by Andy Kubert and Richard Isanove showing us Wolverine as a kid named James Howlett, really doesn't even begin to scratch the itch that bugs us about his past. We want to know Wolverine as a spy, as a failed samurai, his connections to government cover-ups, his Madripoor ties, etc. In short, everything that makes this cigar-chomping hairy mutant with a short fuse cool - and WHY these things were so. Enter Daniel Way with this book, "Origins & Endings" and the follow-up series "Wolverine: Origins". This is the Wolverine that we want to read about discovering, in truth, his own coolness. I approached this series with some hesitation, being forewarned by many that this series represents the extreme of Marvel's "decompressed" storytelling style and how it was deliberately stretched out/padded to fill hardcover/paperback collections. Honestly, it's "decompressed" all right but I don't mind. The last thing I want is for Wolvie's origin to be told in several panels (ala' Silver Age comics). Friends, this is something that we've been waiting for since we were around 9 years old in Primary School (my eldest kid is 9 years old now)! Do you want all the chips

Best Wolverine Story is quite some time...

The last Wolverine graphic novel that was this seminal, this important to read was Barry Windsor Smith's Weapon X. Origins and Endings is the rare graphic that provides both a perfect start for new readers unfamiliar with the character and a devishly delicious plot filled with small details the long time fan will drool over. At the end of House of M, Wolverine regained his memory. His ENTIRE memory. Though I thought I wouldn't like this turn of events, Daniel Way handles it in such a way that just enough is revealed to answer almost none of the reader's questions, but to provide even more intrigue than before. The art by Saltares and Texira is fabulous, and just moody enough to be perfect. There's even small details the artists have incorporated to make the long time X-Fan say " I can't believe they threw that in!" This really is the best X-Men graphic in years. I'm frustrated I can't rate it higher. Please, get yourself a copy and then get a copy for your friend. You won't want to lend yours out, you'll be too busy re-reading it again and again! Highest recommendations to new fans and seasoned fans alike!