The Wolverine-in-Japan story has now been done so often that it almost counts as a sub-genre. Traditionally, it involves squabbling martial artists, people trying to kill Wolverine, "ninjas" who don't appear to remember any of the basic principles of assassination, and at least five ludicrous plot developments explained away by reference to Japanese concepts of honour. ("For the honour of my family, I must pour a bucket of custard over my head and dance an Irish jig. You would not understand, gaijin." "Oh, well if it's your CULTURE, I'll accept that in lieu of actual characterisation or plot. Fair enough.")Be sure also to check out the indexes which are quite well down, and in the Silver Age section, very funny as well.
“Well, I've been in the city for 30 years and I've never once regretted being a nasty, greedy, cold-hearted, avaricious money-grubber... er, Conservative!” - Monty Python's Flying Circus, Season 2, Episode 11, How Not To Be Seen
Thursday, November 04, 2004
Comics
For those of you who enjoy the X-Men Comics, you might enjoy reading the X-Axis Reviews. For those of you who think the X-Men Comics are pretty overrated and not all that good, you might enjoy reading the X-Axis Reviews. Here's a sample paragraph that I found particularly interesting in a review of Wolverine #150 from a couple of years ago.
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