![]() ![]() Those are, aside from being more than a little unfair, entirely inappropriate. ![]() It had been somewhat hyped as a deconstructionist look at the superhero genre – hell, I even heard some ridiculous comparisons to The Dark Knight Returns. ![]() I have to admit to being a bit disappointed by Old Man Logan. Indeed, the title is alluded to in a scene featuring “the Hulk gang” riding around in a vandalised Fantastic Four hovercar, featuring “Un-4-Given” scrawled on the side. Specifically William Munney, the character played by Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven. Here Millar proposes Wolverine as a cowboy. In Western culture, perhaps the most obvious comparison is with a cowboy ( The Seven Samurai itself being adapted into The Magnificent Seven as an idea of how the two are interchangeable – A Fistful of Dollars itself was a remake of a Japanese original). ![]() Wolverine is a character typically written with varying degrees of complexity by different authors, but he can essentially be boiled down to Chris Claremont’s conception of the character as a ronin, or a masterless samurai. ![]()
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