Steve Dillon passed away today. He did the art for what was arguably one of the best Wolverine story arcs, along with doing work on Punisher, co-editing, co-creating and doing the art for Preacher, and a ton of other works (including some which he not only drew, but wrote). I wasn’t a huge fan of his faces, to be honest, but he could make a story compelling with the action in the panels and the man had a grasp on setting a tone through the environment around characters. The comic world lost a helluva creative mind today.
misconception: Logan's a total ladies' man, not monogamous at all, sleeps with anything that moves as long as it's female, and his feelings for Roro are exaggerated
Oh god, okay, this is literally one of the most common misconceptions I see about Logan, and when I do? This is me:
Logan is not a ladies’ man. Logan is not a serial hump and dump-er. Logan is not some shallow ass. In fact, James motherfucking Howlett is as close to a serial monogamist as a man who’s scared of losing the women he loves can be. From Rose, the first casualty in a long line of lovers, up to Ororo, who’s one of the rare few to come out of a relationship with him unscathed, Wolverine falls deeply and completely in love with the woman he’s with.
He’s very, VERY picky about who he’ll even consider dating, thanks to how dangerous it is for someone to be with him. It’s terrifying for him to let someone in and let them get close, because he flashes back to Rose dying, to finding blood smeared over the walls of his cabin, to losing Jean (whose death wasn’t a direct result of him, but no longer fell victim to his Sammy Winchester-like kiss of death), and he worries constantly if he’s dating someone.
But once he’s found someone to love? He’s fiercely loyal and will move heaven and earth, and fight God and the Devil to keep them safe.
Ororo is a perfect example. Someone insulted her (rather heinously) and he went berserk. He attacked them, and that was before they were even technically together.
Which leads me to the second part of this.
Logan’s love for Storm was a long-running, undying love. Ororo Munroe was a woman who could not only kick his ass, but remind him of the humanity that he sometimes felt had left him. Yes, Jean made him feel like a man instead of an animal, but Ororo? She reminded him that, even though he was a mutant, he was still very much human in ways. He could let his guard down around her, trust her above anyone else, and while he would buck listening to other X-Men, if Ororo handed down an order, he listened. She could tell him to jump, and he’d ask how high and in which direction.
In a life that left him feeling like a tempest-tossed ship as sea, she was the one who could calm the waves and bring him back to inner peace. Jean was the one that got away, but Ororo Munroe was the love of his life, and I will put my tiny fists up and fight ANY FRIGGIN’ ONE who tries to argue any differently.
“Respect an’ likin’ someone ain’t horses o’ the same color. Hell, they aren’t even both horses. I took orders from a lotta assholes in the service, hated their guts. But I did what I was told in a fight. Outside o’ that? I don’t give a damn ‘bout what they say. S’the best way to deal with that sort o’ thing.”
“ Yes, this is Ms. Frost. I’m afraid I’m going to have to cancel my 3:00 pedicure. On account of what? How about the supreme stupidity of everyone else in the world but ME? ”
“We don’t have a moral issue with it. Some people do. Personally, I think there’s a few people this world’d be better off without. Present company excluded, o’ course.”
“Back-up? Me? Logan, don’t be ridiculous. I can handle whatever they send my way.”
“Don’t be a stubborn ass, Emma. M’not sayin’ ya need it. M’just sayin’ it can’t hurt. Plus, s’a chance fer me to have a little fun. S’been a while since I got to let loose on someone.”
“Y’aren’t gonna get yer heart cut out, sweetheart. Not over somethin’ like that. Trust me, they wanted it on a pike, they woulda done it already. Worst case, yer gonna get chewed out. But if y’ need backup? I’ll tag along.”
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