Fans finally I have to see Wolverine Wear your comic book-accurate yellow X-Men costume in 2024 Deadpool and Wolverinemore than 20 years after Hugh Jackman first portrayed the character. X-Men it helped define how pre-MCU films tried to adapt their comic book inspirations, with “realistic” black leather tactical suits instead of colorful suits. However, In 1999, a group of Marvel's best artists tried to guess how the film would redesign Wolverineand their answers were path more creative.
In a recent post on X, WIZARDS! The Podcast Guide to Comics shared a page Wizard1999's 'Wolverine Special', where big names like Dave Cockrum, Leinil Francis Yu and John Cassaday offered their own big-screen reimaginings of the immortal X-Men fighter.
Matt Haley was the closest to the eventual reality, with a “dark leather clothing” but it still added a little too much comical iconography with short sleeves and pronounced shoulder pads. Other artists go much further, with Leinil Francis Yu reimagining Wolverine's costume as a series of restraints, while John Cassaday's particularly extreme redesign imagines him as a mess of scars, describing a live-action Wolverine as “a cat that has fought too much.”
The 'Wolverine Special' also included art of Wolverine facing off against iconic pop culture characters, including Star Wars'Darth Maul and DC's Green Lantern.
Wizard's Wolverine is redesigned for the 2000s X-Men We were too far away…
…But that doesn't make them any less cool
Starting to be published in 1991, WizardComic's relationship with comic book creators allowed this type of report to be broadcast, with comic book professionals addressing topics that the magazine conveyed to them. For example, The 'Wolverine Special' also included art of Wolverine facing off against iconic pop culture characters, including Star Wars'Darth Maul and DC's Green Lantern. In the case of the hero's potential movie recasts, fans got some truly unique reworks of Wolverine that can't be found anywhere else, with a clear understanding that the X-Men the film would move towards a darker, more realistic design.
Since 2000 X-MenSuperhero films have gradually adopted more and more comical designs for their characters, however, there is still a long way to go before they reach the same level of constant creativity and reinvention as the source material. Wolverine doesn't just have his yellow and blue costume in the comics, but a constantly rotating wardrobe of new looks and redesigns, from being infected by an alien virus to being combined with the Winter Soldier and donning adamantium armor to kill his nemesis. long time. Sabretooth.
WizardThe Wolverine redesigns may not have gotten it right X-Men have altered the iconic hero, but many of them are creative enough that even 20 years later, it would be great for fans to see this gallery of potential Wolverine variants have their own stories.
Source: WIZARDS! The Podcast Guide to Comics