Wolverine Manga Announced, Fanboys In Rabid, Gun-Jumping Lather
Author: Stephen Gerding
December 10th, 2007
The other day, Marvel unveiled their new partnership with Del Rey to produce manga titles based on Marvel Universe properties. Predictably, the first titles will feature some of Marvel’s biggest characters, Wolverine and those other X-Men, in two separate titles. Of course, Marvel and Del Rey had some art to show the media, and when fanboys saw it, they went kinda apeshit nuts over the Wolverine art, and not in a good way. Apparently, he’s not hairy enough for their tastes.
On the V forum, Wolverine manga writer Antony Johnston mentioned that the art shown at the panel was by the artist of another manga entirely, one that doesn’t even feature Wolverine.
We don’t even have an artist for the Wolverine book, yet, so all it’s done is get loads of purists riled for no good reason.
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5 Responses to “Wolverine Manga Announced, Fanboys In Rabid, Gun-Jumping Lather”
December 10th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
You have to admit… that looks retarded.
December 10th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
It’s Not my glass of beer, but it’s far from the worst art I’ve ever seen, especially when you consider it’s drawn by the artist illustrating a shoujo version of the X-Men, aimed squarely at teenage girls. The fact that it’s got (presumably) grown men all het up is actually pretty funny.
December 11th, 2007 at 12:28 am
No, this is NOT good! Wolverine is adult aged and not some teenage boy who wants to scratch something.
December 11th, 2007 at 11:43 am
they already had the mangaverse line but this looks like another attempt. ya wolvie does kinda look pansy-ish. hope this isn’t a throw away comic, and actually good.
December 12th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Well, I wish they had actual mangaka from Japan on the book like they did with Wolverine Snikt!. Nihei’s art was awesome. I’m crossing my fingers they get him for the more ’shonen’ inspired book.
Then again, what’s the point? X-Men and Woverline are pretty much the American equivalent of shonen books already.
This simply isn’t manga. Sure, it tries to look like some generic stereotype of manga, but it’s not Japanese. The artist is Indonesian. Isn’t that a bit of an insult to call an Indonesian artist’s work by a Japanese name?