Wolverine: The End

Wolverine Origin #End

by Paul Jenkins, Claudio Castellini (Illustrator)

Marvel's critically acclaimed The End line continues with a look at the final days in the life of Logan - the man called Wolverine! It's the distant future, and a series of strange events sends the aging Wolverine on a globe-spanning quest to find the final truths behind his origin. But when he encounters a mysterious figure from his past, everything he thought he knew is turned upside-down! It's the end of a legend, written by the man who brought you the beginning of the story, Paul (Origin) Jenkins!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Marvel, X Men, Superheroes, Comic Book, Science Fiction

144 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2007

About the author

Paul Jenkins is a British comic book writer. He has had much success crossing over into the American comic book market. Primarily working for Marvel Comics, he has had a big part shaping the characters of the company over the past decade.

Reviews

[Subham · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was certainly an interesting read.

It starts off with Wolverine being old and given a letter and he arrives in Japan and facing some people and then digging for info and finds out about the Kanaguri Cult and the mystery of some ghost and from there we learn of the White Ghost aka John Howlett, the brother he thought was deceased and its a fascinating reveal to see the two brothers go at it and its a brutal and bloody battle.

The first encounter was weird and then we learn of the new X-Men and well they are different and its Logan's mission to take down his brother and it becomes this weird story where John becomes like any other villain thinking of world destruction and what not and so Logan being the good guy has to stop him.

I thought the mystery and reveal would build to one thing and then it becomes something else entirely but its not all that bad and there are chances of sequel too maybe down the line but who knows? So far this volume had great potential and all but it squanders it away but the art was nice throughout and a pleasure to read for sure.

[Tesutamento · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bir başka alternatif evren hikayesi. Uzak bir gelecekte Logan artık yaşlanmış ve inzivaya çekilmiş. Tabii ki bela onu bir şekilde buluyor. Logan'ın Japonya'ya gitmesi ve asırlardır ölü sandığı kayıp abisini bulmasıyla hikaye tam bir aile dramına dönüşüyor. Abisi başta iyiymiş de Logan'a yardım edecekmiş gibi davranıyor ama elbette başka kötü emelleri varmış. Gerisi zaten malum. Fena olmayabilecek bir hikaye gibi başlasa da yarısına gelmeden okuma isteğimi yitirdim. Hikayesinin klişe olmasının yanı sıra sıkıcılığı da bunda büyük etken oldu. Çizimlerini beğensem de aktardığı şeyin içi boş olduktan sonra o da kurtaramadı.

[Marianna Botticchio · Rating 4 out of 5]

Anche questo fumetto, un po' per la trama eun po' per i disegni mi ha ricordato ben due film questa volta; il primo è "WOLVERINE L'IMMORTALE" perché lui va in Giappone mentre il secondo è "LOGAN" dove si parla di morte (se non li avete mai visti... Fatelo). Con questo ricordo che però il fumetto non c'entra quasi nulla con i film.
Ora passiamo al fumetto vero e proprio... Le tavole sono disegnate veramente bene, il tratto è bellissimo ed i colori sono uno spettacolo; la storia bhe anche quella mi è piaciuta moltissimo.
Anche la parte "HULK THE END" non è stata male... Molto piacevole direi.
C'è però una parte che proprio non mi è piaciuta ed è "PUNISHER THE END" che mi ha trasmesso un po' di... Inquietudine per ciò che c'è disegnato.
Per concludere 4.5 ⭐ meritate direi.
RECUPERATE PURE QUESTO.

[Max Ostrovsky · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found myself liking this story a whole lot more than "Old Man Logan." It was more engaging and believable as far as a Marvel Universe future. One of the best things in this is how the patented 'snikt' ages into the arthritic (and possibly rusted) 'sklitch.' That one sound effect, I think, makes the book. I did have some concerns about the possible future (not as many as "Old Man Logan"), but I wonder if that comes from not knowing enough of some of the current Logan stories (I'm still in the late 90's). I'm not sure how much I buy the new brother (what happened to Sabertooth as the brother?). The unclear demise of Xavier. X-Men as officials. Etc.

[Shannon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not sure why this is called THE END when it is just a story about Wolverine when he is very old. The art is inconsistent; nice in some places, very messy in others, too dark most of the time. The story is a basic movie/tv/comic plot about greed that is disguised by a family conflict. The family conflict part makes no sense with the basic story plot. The two do not fit together with the future time element of THE END story line concept. A modern day story would been more plausible.

[Public Scott · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another variation on Old Logan... but this time with the proudest, most glorious mullet you have ever seen. Logan's hair is always fierce, but old Logan, who can barely retract his claws anymore because of the arthritis, has the ultimate power mullet with flowing white locks cascading down his back that would make Billy Ray Cyrus weep with shame.

Yet Logan's power mullet cowers before the hair worn by this story's villain. An ancient Canadian living in the mountains of Japan who looks like Dracula and can phase shift like Vision - his dreamy white hair whisps all the way to the floor. The bad guy doesn't even look like a sister wife at all.
Having hair this long would seem to be a disadvantage when fighting Wolverine in hand-to-hand combat - but nah.

Then comes the big twist... this bad guy also has claws and he's... Duh Duh Duuhhhh... Wolverine's older brother! He knows all the stuff that Wolverine forgot about his life after the Weapon X program wiped his mind clean - and he promises to share all the juicy family deets... as long as Wolverine helps him in his evil plan to rule the world. Wolverine's brother is a supervillain? Yup. You probably could have guessed by the whole looking like Dracula thing, but whatev. The reveal that the villain is related to Wolverine feels a little anticlimactic because the brothers are trying to kill each other both before and after the truth comes out. There is little pathos and I didn't buy that Wolverine was having any inner conflict as he fought with Ghost Charles Xavier about it. (Side note - Ghost Charles Xavier maybe lives inside Logan's mouth? Unclear.)

In summary, go for the real-deal Old Man Logan and skip power mullet old man Logan.

[Roman · Rating 1 out of 5]

Пол Дженкінс, написавши прекрасний Wolverine: Origin, вирішив продовжити історію Росомахи кінцем (хоча це важко так назвати). Добре, що я хоча б більш-менш пригадав Оріджин від цього автора і мені вже було краще скласти якісь зачіпки по ходу цього коміксу.

Щодо самої історії то це якась поразка - ось ці початки Старого Лоґана зовсім тухлі та нецікаві, сюжет висмоктаний з пальця і таке враження, що Дженкінса примусили це писати. Останній випуск намагався чимшвидше пролистати, для мене тут не було жодної інтриги чи
цікавих поворотів, тільки очі закочувались від спроб чимось здивувати та зацікавити.

[Carlos J. Eguren · Rating 2 out of 5]

172/365
Tras leer el origen que Jenkins le dio a Lobezno (y que me gustó mucho), esperaba más de su supuesto final, y lo que me encuentro es con un cómic de superhéroes sin más. Los superhéroes siempre acaban tirando del culebrón, pero aquí entre hermanos secretos y planes rocambolescos, me quedo con otras versiones crepusculares de Lobezno, como El viejo Logan.

[Etienne · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first half of it was quite good, but then the brother came in and he was such a bad characters. Overly powerful, kind of breaking the tradition of the original Logan story as well, and just not good. In the end it was ok, but could have been way better!

I'm curious about that series, The End, series and might look for some more.

[John · Rating 2 out of 5]

A tail-end to Jenkin's Wolverine: Origins, this a really underwhelming to me (just as Origin was as well).

Wolverine is a good character, capable of some depth--but he's overexposed. This story suggests a bit of a meta solution to why he's so overexposed and in every Marvel book.

Poignancy is hard for such a character. I don't think the Death of Wolverine was very good and while Old Man Logan was a blast, it didn't feel like closure to me (and the fact Marvel did sequels and kept him around belabored that point--currently Dead Man Logan).

It would have been nice for him to overtake Sabertooth and become the next Romulus. Instead, it's an arthritic Wolverine, losing his edge. And a conspiracy about Weapon X tracking him down. So he travels the world and his old stomping grounds one final time. The big twist is that the person who has been tormenting him all his life, is his older brother. Oiy...

The joke is that Wolverine's healing factor applies to his mental trauma as well. I might wish for his powers after reading this. His brothers big plan is to crash the US economy to take over. Nothing grand ala Jeph Loeb's Romulus concept or what not. JUST MONEY.

Which is kind of a metaphor for why Marvel uses him so much anyhow.

[Ben · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sadly, can't say I was a big fan of it. Perhaps its because I saw Logan (the movie) first, but I just didn't find the story compelling. Its flashy and jumps around a lot without any real exposition and lot of circuitous and vague comments by John Howlett. I'm not the most knowledgeable reader - for X-Men and Wolverine in general - and I feel like there is a lot left out in this, almost more like a "You needed to read X, Y, Z, 1, 3, 4, 8, 10, C, D, E to understand this" type of a thing. And sadly, I've read only X, Z, 3, 8. So all of those other missing pieces fly over my head. And its obviously set completely different and apart from that of the movie timeline, so thats no good.

The "old man" stuff of this also doesn't feel as real and as visceral as Hugh Jackman's performance does in Logan. Overall, the plot to Logan is just far better too. And Xavier works much better as a dementia riddled old man in Logan than he does as an internal ghost inside of Logan in this comic.

Perhaps I'm being unfair to compare the two over and over. But, I just don't find the story in this comic that compelling or think it stands up on its own.

[Adam Gutschenritter · Rating 2 out of 5]

Was not really the end of wolverine, but seemed to be the end of Wolverine Origins. Nothing here that is super exciting and something I would recommend. The art was mostly cool and Wolverine has to kill his brother John.

[Guido]

Supuesto futuro del mismo Wolverine que conocimos retroactivamente en "Origin".

[Ian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Part of The End series of X-Men stories which tell tales of the grim future of the featured characters.
Here Logan is living alone in the wilds with little human contact but finds himself drawn back into the larger world by a letter promising him details of his lost past.

This is very much a companion piece to 'Wolverine: Origin' which show us the other end of Wolverine's life, having outlived everyone he was ever close to. This set-up is very compelling and breaks ground that would later also be explored in 'Old Man Logan' and the excellent James Mangold movie Logan. This is a version of Logan who is trying to live purely on his instincts once more but can't escape his regrets and his knowledge of what he's lost.

Unfortunately, the story rapidly goes off the rails when we're introduced to Logan's long-lost secret villainous older brother (no, not Sabretooth) and from there on no cliché remains un-trotted-out.
Perhaps worse than the boring and unoriginal plot that unfolds, is that we get hints of a much more interesting story, such as Xavier psychically living inside Logan or the X-Men of the future having become fascists, but which are never explored further. Perhaps they get more time in the rest of The End series (I've not read any others yet) but here these ideas just highlight how trite is the story we actually get.

Aside from the set-up and early part of the book, there is one other redeeming feature here and it's a concept about Wolverine's powers that had never occurred to me and which I've never seen explored elsewhere. Here Jenkins introduces the idea that Logan's amnesia is not a direct result of the trauma of being turned into Weapon X, but instead is his healing factor's way of protecting him from that trauma.
I really liked this intriguing idea that even Logan's psyche is subject to his healing powers and will gloss over anything that would be too painful for him to remember.

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[sergeist · Rating 2 out of 5]

Muchos nos preguntamos a veces cómo serán nuestros últimos días -lo que pasa por mi cabeza no me tranquiliza- por eso a pesar de la buena pinta que tenía esta corta serie no colma las expectativas que tenía, ni de lejos.

Castelini en el aspecto gráfico hace referencia directa a un clásico como Neal Adams, resulta muy expresivo pero no convence del todo en su narrativa -demasiados primeros y medios planos- y dota al personaje de una expresión apesadumbrada rayando en ocasiones en un patetismo que no me termina de cuadrar, al contrario que el Old Man Logan de Lemire, Bendis o Millar.

Parece imposible que el autor de Lobezno - Origen sea el mismo de esta miniserie pero da la impresión de que se la encargaran precisamente por ese motivo… estaba claro que dentro de todas las miniseries de El Fin (Castigador, Spiderman, 4 Fantásticos…) no podía faltar la correspondiente a uno de los personajes más sobreexplotados de la editorial -con permiso del amistoso vecino arácnido- pero no pasa de cubrir expediente y poco más.

Para colmo, la historia de Jenkins ni siquiera relata la muerte del personaje sino sus últimos días en una suerte de What if o futuro alternativo que aporta bien poco al trasfondo del personaje. Todo resulta demasiado formulaico. Bien es cierto que en el momento de su publicación aún no había arrancado la colección de Wolverine: Origins ni se habían revelado todos los detalles del pasado del personaje pero podría haber sido una buena oportunidad para hacer algo interesante con mayor libertad de la habitual. Lástima.

[Dillon Braeges · Rating 2 out of 5]

One of a number of attempts at writing "The Last Wolverine Story." Not the first, and definitely not the last. Why people keep returning to this well, I have no idea. This is even part of whole series of "The Last Whoever Stories," none of which are particularly noteworthy.

Well, maybe this one is. It brings back the writer of Wolverine Origin, and the result it more or less a distant sequel to that story. Plot points are expanded upon, and Logan finally gets around to investigating his past proper. It also draws upon a couple of other notable Wolverine stories, bringing them all together. In fact, you could probably read this with the original Wolverine mini-series, Weapon X, and Origin and have a pretty coherent little cycle of stories.

Unfortunately, that's pretty much the only real notable thing about this. The art is... passable for its time. Everyone's ripped in the classic (?) late 90's way. And the story is pretty typical Wolverine fare. In fact, I can really only recommend this to die-hard fans of the character. Anyone else? Feel free to avoid.

[Marcos_e.e · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nota 4,5.
O roteiro do Paul Jenkins trás algumas coisas interessantes como as guarras emperradas e o passado do Wolverine de Origem recontada. Algumas coisas o filme do Logan pegou daqui. Incluindo o Wolverine recebendo uma carta de missão estando num enterro chuvoso, o amigo dele sonhar de ir morar num barco sossegado e o Logan morando isolado e velho.
Agora as coisas realmente ruins da história.
RETCOM. Tem mexidas na cânone que me fazem ter uma vibe muito grande das histórias ruins de J. Michael Straczynski e Jeph Loeb. O plot é todo maluco, conveniente e sem clímax.
A arte é aquilo do início dos anos 2000 só que multiplicado ao extremo. O Logan é um Clint Eastwood raquítico shapeado com um mullet inacreditável. As sombras são fortíssimas lembrando bastante Jim Lee e Mike Deodato Jr.
Algumas vezes bonita, muitas outras vezes escrachada.
Enfim, é um gibi que existe. Nem sendo tão bom de ler separado pq se utiliza e muito de material do Origem de 2001. Medíocre sendo muito generoso.

[Rob · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love Wolverine, and I thought the idea of seeing his ending story would be good. It should be good...but it isn't. This is written by the same person who wrote the much better Origin, which told the untold memories that Logan couldn't access. That was a good, and unexpected story. Unfortunately, this is a flip on that, seeing some characters from that haven't appeared anywhere else since. If you hadn't read Origin, you would care even less. I was hoping for a lot of action and cameos, and some sort of post apocalyptic situation. Instead it's a follow-up to Origin, and one that nobody asked for, 200 or so years later.

[Jeremy Hannaford · Rating 3 out of 5]

It starts off really good. Can definitely see elements that would have been used as inspiration for Logan. Even if the art style is a bit ridiculous at times, it's still a really solid/depressing story of Wolverine at the end of his days.
But then just like the Wolverine movie, everything kind of falls apart in the final act and it just losses alot of it's momentum and then it just ... ends.
Unfortunate cause if Jenkins could keep have landed the ending, it would have been on par with Old Man Logan for sure.

[K · Rating 2 out of 5]

An interesting but wholly unsatisfying end to this series. I was worried that this volume would skip too much of the stuff I wanted to learn, and I felt like this series in general glossed over some major stuff (re: Victor Creed and John Howlett’s motivations) that I’d like to have seen on page. In this last volume, it was super apparent that without reading allllll the other Wolverine X-Men comics that the emotional payoff wouldn’t come.

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wolverine: The End. So basically Paul Jenkins tries to get back on the Origin horse and reveal more about Logan's past, except now through the future. Except, Origin is just barely accepted as continuity, and this not at all. Besides that, the premise really doesn't work. Logan fights his biggest bad of all, who we've never met before, and is teased with secrets without offering answers. There's not a lot to this, and what there is is frustrating [2+/5].

[Pawan Rai · Rating 2 out of 5]

This story starts out so well with some great ideas for the future of the marvel universe and a very old Wolverine, but then starts to run into problems. The antagonist doesn’t really make a good impact and the story seems to run out of room and finish too quickly. Its also not really an ending to wolverine’s story, which feels like a missed opportunity.

[Donna · Rating 2 out of 5]

Logan, old and achy, meets up with a family member he had long thought dead.

I liked the parts where Logan is tired and elderly, but still dragging through the days as one does at that age. The plot with the family member didn't really make sense. The ending was appropriate. I was not impressed by the art (sometimes good, but sometimes the anatomy was so off it was disconcerting to me).

[Gemma McCormack · Rating 5 out of 5]

Set in the future, Logan is living a simple life in the woods in Canada. Following the death of former rival Victor Creed, Logan ends up travelling the world on a journey of self discovery trying to put together the fragments of his memories to piece together his history. Strong story with iconic images

[Λευτέρης Αναγνωστόπουλος · Rating 1 out of 5]

Pff, this trilogy is just a big "meh" for me. The End didn't even have the beautiful illustrations the previous two had, it's just cheaper and the story didn't got any better.

I'll give this compliment though, the idea of Logan's healing factor erasing traumatic events from his memory to protect him is awesome.

[salomé · Rating 2 out of 5]

c’était assez intéressant au début jusqu’à ce qu’on découvre l’histoire avec son frère pardon mais wtf j’arrive pas à concevoir qu’il a un frère ? ça n’a aucun sens selon moi en plus le personnage en question était nul

inutile/20 , vaut mieux lire old man logan pour une lire une histoire de super hero qui a de l’arthrose

[Timo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hmmm.... not so sure about "The End of Wolverine" ending. Was it the end or will there be the Return of The End.
But I did enjoy this story, no matter how crappy and messy the art was here and there. But the story was good and thoroughly though. Net perfect, but really good.

[Mystique X · Rating 4 out of 5]

THE END puede contar tanto como versión alternativa del personaje como EL FIN del Wolverine/James/Perro/Logan que nos presentaron en Origin, con un resultado rico en mitología mutante.
Lo había leído en la edición argentino-española de Panini 2006.

[Lewis · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am not sure got the ending. Also I do not like revealing Wolverines 'real name'. Otherwise it was pretty good.

[Alan · Rating 1 out of 5]

Pretty lame