Comments on: snikt. http://www.jon22.net/snikt/ The Website of Jonathan Dobres Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:58:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Tall One http://www.jon22.net/snikt/comment-page-1/#comment-4273 The Tall One Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:39:00 +0000 http://www.jon22.net/?p=571#comment-4273 AweXome, as always, although I do think your final paragraph answered itself in some ways. The affection can apparently last as long as Marvel wants it to, and as long as there are pre-adolescent boys that like to run around, hunched menacingly while kicking each other in the nuts. His popularity is still going strong after what, 28 years? I don't see an end in sight. You <i>might</i> think that instead of continually upping Wolverine's billing, though, that the writers at Marvel might look at what makes his character so appealing (interesting back-story, consistent and significant personality flaws, a cool and easily-adapted to comics power, etc.) and make OTHER X-men similar in those ways. Not everyone has to be all broody and emo all the time, but it would be interesting to see more conflict played up in say, Storm. But I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. AweXome, as always, although I do think your final paragraph answered itself in some ways. The affection can apparently last as long as Marvel wants it to, and as long as there are pre-adolescent boys that like to run around, hunched menacingly while kicking each other in the nuts. His popularity is still going strong after what, 28 years? I don’t see an end in sight.

You might think that instead of continually upping Wolverine’s billing, though, that the writers at Marvel might look at what makes his character so appealing (interesting back-story, consistent and significant personality flaws, a cool and easily-adapted to comics power, etc.) and make OTHER X-men similar in those ways. Not everyone has to be all broody and emo all the time, but it would be interesting to see more conflict played up in say, Storm. But I don’t think that’s going to happen anytime soon.

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