CBR: Shonen Snikt! Johnston on Wolverine Manga

[CBR News]

"Wasteland" writer Antony Johnston re-envisions Logan for the manga generation in "Wolverine: Prodigal Son." CBR News spoke with Johnston about this dramatically different take on Marvel's most popular mutant.


Full article here.

[timbox]

I bet Nightcrawler really likes this version of Wolverine.

[creaky]

I bet Nightcrawler really likes this version of Wolverine.

Nightcrawler is NOT into little boys. Take your bigotry against the Catholic church elsewhere.

[timbox]

Nightcrawler is NOT into little boys. Take your bigotry against the Catholic church elsewhere.

Hello, creaky.

[chickrockguitar]

Hmm. Am I the only one who's interested in this?

[chastmastr]

I'm kind of interested in it but they seem to have taken out most of what I love about Logan. If they were to go a different way and have him in manga and focus on the gruff, honorable, mysterious adult samurai aspect, rather than the bishonen Logan here, I'd be much more interested.

David

[yesiamaplant]

The Marvel Manga projects have always rung false for me. Not the reprints of the Spider-Man or X-Men manga (genuine japanese creators reinterpreting for their audience), more like this pablum right here. The creators of these books are always taking whatever silly anime trope they've witnessed, and shoehorning marvel characters over it. For instance, turning Wolverine into a svelte pretty boy who would look at home in a yaoi doujin-fic. This is not something a manga-ka would actually do. Despite what people seem to think, they're very respectful of the western works they occasionally adapt, and tend to keep them closer to the source material. Just look at any of the Batman manga that has been released over the past few years.

Thumbs down again, Marvel.

[veryvery]

did anyone read this? was it good?

[chastmastr]

The Marvel Manga projects have always rung false for me. Not the reprints of the Spider-Man or X-Men manga (genuine japanese creators reinterpreting for their audience), more like this pablum right here. The creators of these books are always taking whatever silly anime trope they've witnessed, and shoehorning marvel characters over it. For instance, turning Wolverine into a svelte pretty boy who would look at home in a yaoi doujin-fic. This is not something a manga-ka would actually do. Despite what people seem to think, they're very respectful of the western works they occasionally adapt, and tend to keep them closer to the source material. Just look at any of the Batman manga that has been released over the past few years.

Thumbs down again, Marvel.

Which I think is weirdly ironic given that, from what I can tell, Logan has roots in the sort of Toshiro Mifune character ("...a samurai or ronin, who was usually coarse and gruff ... inverting the popular stereotype of the genteel, clean-cut samurai ... characters who were often comically lacking in manners, but replete with practical wisdom and experience, understated nobility, and ... unmatched fighting prowess. Sanjuro in particular contrasts this earthy warrior spirit with the useless, sheltered propriety of the court samurai" -- I mean, that's Logan all over basically) which already existed in Japanese culture. So it's like they're moving him away from the Japanese tropes he already connects very well with in order to make him fit a completely different kind of Japanese trope. And that's just plain weird... alas, perhaps that's what they think will sell well.

(I think Logan would fit very well in a kuma-bara doujin-fic, but not a bishonen yaoi one. But that deserves its own thread, really...)

David

[babybro]

The Marvel Manga projects have always rung false for me. Not the reprints of the Spider-Man or X-Men manga (genuine japanese creators reinterpreting for their audience), more like this pablum right here. The creators of these books are always taking whatever silly anime trope they've witnessed, and shoehorning marvel characters over it. For instance, turning Wolverine into a svelte pretty boy who would look at home in a yaoi doujin-fic. This is not something a manga-ka would actually do. Despite what people seem to think, they're very respectful of the western works they occasionally adapt, and tend to keep them closer to the source material. Just look at any of the Batman manga that has been released over the past few years.

Thumbs down again, Marvel.

Sorry, but what you say is definitely a lie. Japanese constantly change western comics to adapt to japanese society. The best example (which was highly disappointing) was witchblade.

With that said, I'm definitely interested in this and will be picking it up.

[Crowforge]

Is this some sort of revenge for that dragonball movie?

[Aguja]

Will there be tentacle rape?

[Crowforge]

Ah, Omega red.... I may have to buy that issue.

[jboncha]

I'm kinda interested.
Not enough to go and buy it at the store but I did find that a couple of libraries in my area have ordered it so I put it on hold.
Some of my fave artists are manga artists.
Its too bad that they usually only work in that medium.
I really liked Tsutomu Nihei's work on SNIKT!.
It would be great to see more of them work on DC or Marvel characters.

[Grapeweasel]

I usually stop reading at 'Manga'.....