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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

Actually it's kinda funny that you bring up how Nova isn't very popular outside of the comic fans community because I was at Wal-Mart getting groceries and I saw a Marvel backpack and one of the characters on it was Nova. It used his Deodato art like from the MU figure, I was just pretty damn surprised to see Nova on a backpack and have it not then be the dumb kid-Nova. Of course I'm sure whichever kids get that backpack will have no clue who it is they're looking at.
I feel like nobody else can actually call themselves Wolverine because they aren't. Logan's a short, stocky, hairy, angry, and fierce little Canadian with claws all of which are qualities found in actual wolverines except for the shared healthcare system. Nobody else could be Wolverine unless Puck got claws and a much darker outlook on life, and even then he'd still be Puck at the end of the day. I'm pretty sure that eventually we'll see our main Wolverine again and Xavier too, even though immortality is actually a rare power among these characters it's one of those things they secretly all share.

so do you think the healing factor was written in as some kind of underlying statement on Canada's socialized medicine situation? (you'll note than when the intelligent virus got really bad Logan went to American Doctors.)

as far as the healing factor, restored youth and immortality go, that's pretty much par for the course for most comic characters, (Hell if you've been reading Wolverine since the 80's you'll note he often seems to age backwards!) unless you get cancer like Capt. Marvel, or your concept gets played out and tired (swordsman) or your really hard to draw (jack of hearts)or your the new guy (thunderbird)... then you stay dead, only occasionally returning as an evil zombie version of yourself. no one ever comes back as a good zombie.