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Wolverine: Origins (Collected Editions)
Wolverine: Origins, Volume 6: Dark Reign
After the stunning revelations of the last volume, Daken now knows that he is merely a pawn and that his hatred of his father, Wolverine, is based upon a lie. Now, Daken and Wolverine - father and son - unite to track down the most fearsome being Daken has ever known. But they're not the only ones looking for him. Plus, Daken battles the X-Men for possession of the deadly Muramasa Blade!
Collecting: Wolverine: Origins 31-36
Collecting: Wolverine: Origins 31-36
144 pages, Hardcover
First published September 2, 2009
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August 24, 2022
Wolverine and Daken team up to take on Romulus. Or do they? Cyber shows up, and then the X-Men as Daken tries to obtain the Muramasa Blade, a supernatural samurai sword that can cut through and kill anything. Wolverine used the sword to kill Sabretooth. At least for a while. Anyway, this was a good volume that ends with Daken undergoing some major changes.
One thing I've noticed about this series: If you look at each volume individually, you have a good story. However, if you look at the entire series as a whole, it's even better.
One thing I've noticed about this series: If you look at each volume individually, you have a good story. However, if you look at the entire series as a whole, it's even better.
November 25, 2012
Wolverine and Daken have reached an uneasy peace where the two can get along for a few pages without popping their claws and having at each other but Daken’s character is still shady with his true motivations remaining to be seen. The book opens in a made up African nationa where Cyber is hiding out. Wolverine and Daken are looking for Romulus, the lynchpin behind all the horrible things that has happened in this series and seemingly the mastermind behind the Weapon X programme.
If you thought Wolverine’s history was convoluted before, Daniel Way adds another layer of bizarreness to it by introducing the strange history of the Hudson family who seem to have a connection to Logan and in turn Daken. I won’t spoil it here partly because I don’t understand it. Is this now canon or is it like the Ultimates?
Anyway the X-Men make an appearance when Daken predictably turns on his pop and tries to steal the precious carbonadium - the only material that can permanently damage Wolverine and cripple his healing factor - to graft onto him so he can kill Logan. The guy who does this to Daken has remained a mystery to me - this tinkerer character has been nothing but trouble for Wolverine but nothing is done to limit his movements or imprison him and as a consequence the guy keeps showing up inconveniently and making stuff worse for ol’ Logan once again.
The book has decent art from Yanick Paquette and Doug Braithwaite who’ve replaced Steve Dillon - an artist who is unfairly criticised for his drawing style which I cannot understand. He is brilliant and missed on this book. Daniel Way puts in a solid effort in this, perhaps overlong, series introducing Daken to the Marvel Universe but after six volumes I think he should be wrapping this up very soon as the story is beginning to feel a bit stale. “Dark Reign” has some good scenes but it’s nothing special.
If you thought Wolverine’s history was convoluted before, Daniel Way adds another layer of bizarreness to it by introducing the strange history of the Hudson family who seem to have a connection to Logan and in turn Daken. I won’t spoil it here partly because I don’t understand it. Is this now canon or is it like the Ultimates?
Anyway the X-Men make an appearance when Daken predictably turns on his pop and tries to steal the precious carbonadium - the only material that can permanently damage Wolverine and cripple his healing factor - to graft onto him so he can kill Logan. The guy who does this to Daken has remained a mystery to me - this tinkerer character has been nothing but trouble for Wolverine but nothing is done to limit his movements or imprison him and as a consequence the guy keeps showing up inconveniently and making stuff worse for ol’ Logan once again.
The book has decent art from Yanick Paquette and Doug Braithwaite who’ve replaced Steve Dillon - an artist who is unfairly criticised for his drawing style which I cannot understand. He is brilliant and missed on this book. Daniel Way puts in a solid effort in this, perhaps overlong, series introducing Daken to the Marvel Universe but after six volumes I think he should be wrapping this up very soon as the story is beginning to feel a bit stale. “Dark Reign” has some good scenes but it’s nothing special.
March 26, 2019
This felt like very little actually happened, the story nebulous and characters not very deep, there was some pretty good art which is why this gets 3 stars. I’ve hears raving reviews about Way’s run but so far I am not impressed.
July 7, 2018
Family Business (#31-32). The idea of Logan, Daken, and Cyber all hunting Romulus in the modern-day is pretty cool, but this story really doesn't go anywhere before its end [3/5].
Weapon XI (#33-36). We continue to stay largely in the present, but at this point Way has laid such a strong foundation in Logan's Romulus-retconned past that there are plenty of dots to connect up. Beyond that, this is a thrilling confrontation between the X-Men and Daken. A lot of other authors have tried to repeat this feat, but no one else has made it quite so believable that Daken is a major badass who could take down the whole team. Finally, this is a great pivot point for Daken. Oh, and the loose links to the Dark Avengers are nice too, to keep everything in the same universe [4+/5]
Weapon XI (#33-36). We continue to stay largely in the present, but at this point Way has laid such a strong foundation in Logan's Romulus-retconned past that there are plenty of dots to connect up. Beyond that, this is a thrilling confrontation between the X-Men and Daken. A lot of other authors have tried to repeat this feat, but no one else has made it quite so believable that Daken is a major badass who could take down the whole team. Finally, this is a great pivot point for Daken. Oh, and the loose links to the Dark Avengers are nice too, to keep everything in the same universe [4+/5]
July 7, 2013
This is the 2nd time I've read this book, and I enjoyed it quite a bit.
As part of the Wolverine Origins, this collection focuses on Logan and his son Daken, and their quest to find and take down the mysterious Romulus who has been orchestrating their entire lives for his own nefarious purposes. It's nice to see someone who's a near match for Wolverine, but who he still has the experience over to have a slight advantage on at some points. Important appearance by Nick Fury setting up more of Wolverine's family tree/history; also X-Men make an appearance when once again Cyclops should know better than to get in the way of this family...
As part of the Wolverine Origins, this collection focuses on Logan and his son Daken, and their quest to find and take down the mysterious Romulus who has been orchestrating their entire lives for his own nefarious purposes. It's nice to see someone who's a near match for Wolverine, but who he still has the experience over to have a slight advantage on at some points. Important appearance by Nick Fury setting up more of Wolverine's family tree/history; also X-Men make an appearance when once again Cyclops should know better than to get in the way of this family...
August 3, 2010
More father/son drama and much physical trauma between Wolverine and his son Daken. Pretty enjoyable with mostly decent art.
March 22, 2021
Wolverine: Origins Volume 6 - Dark Reign. This volume sees me entering the unknown, when I previously read the series I got as far as the X-Men Original Sin volume (which takes place between volume 5 and this volume) but have up on the series.
I must admit I was pleasantly surprised by this volume. There are a few changes to the series.
The first change being the artist, Steve Dillon who had done the art on the previous volumes is not doing the artwork from this book onwards. Instead we get two different artists in Yanick Paquette and Doug Braithwaite. Their style is very different to the previous volumes. I really liked Steve Dillon’s more traditional comic style approach. However the artists here are also in my opinion very good. They have a more realistic, detailed and darker style. Which fits the direction the overall story is taking.
The other change is, with the title Dark Reign. If you are not familiar this was a Marvel event at the time. In which Norman Osborn has taken over SHIELD and the Avengers. So this is effectively a tie in to that. However it thankfully doesn’t disrupt the story too much, in fact it helps set up Daken’s role for said event.
We also don’t get the extended flashbacks that we had in the previous volumes. Whereby you learnt more about Logan’s past and interactions with different Marvel characters. Instead we spent most of the time here moving things forward.
The rest of the story here is good. We start with a team up of sorts between Wolverine and Daken. We also ironically get more time with the X-Men in this volume than we did the actual X-Men volume that came before this. That for me was definitely the highlight of this volume. Some great action moments. I really must get around to reading an actual X-Men run though!
This also marks another volume that sees the character of Romulus stay very much in the shadows, but there is definitely progress on that story as a whole.
Overall a decent continuation of the series, that surprisingly isn’t suffering from being tied into an event. At this stage in the series you don’t want to be jumping into the storyline here. Hopefully there is some pay off with the overarching threads soon.
I must admit I was pleasantly surprised by this volume. There are a few changes to the series.
The first change being the artist, Steve Dillon who had done the art on the previous volumes is not doing the artwork from this book onwards. Instead we get two different artists in Yanick Paquette and Doug Braithwaite. Their style is very different to the previous volumes. I really liked Steve Dillon’s more traditional comic style approach. However the artists here are also in my opinion very good. They have a more realistic, detailed and darker style. Which fits the direction the overall story is taking.
The other change is, with the title Dark Reign. If you are not familiar this was a Marvel event at the time. In which Norman Osborn has taken over SHIELD and the Avengers. So this is effectively a tie in to that. However it thankfully doesn’t disrupt the story too much, in fact it helps set up Daken’s role for said event.
We also don’t get the extended flashbacks that we had in the previous volumes. Whereby you learnt more about Logan’s past and interactions with different Marvel characters. Instead we spent most of the time here moving things forward.
The rest of the story here is good. We start with a team up of sorts between Wolverine and Daken. We also ironically get more time with the X-Men in this volume than we did the actual X-Men volume that came before this. That for me was definitely the highlight of this volume. Some great action moments. I really must get around to reading an actual X-Men run though!
This also marks another volume that sees the character of Romulus stay very much in the shadows, but there is definitely progress on that story as a whole.
Overall a decent continuation of the series, that surprisingly isn’t suffering from being tied into an event. At this stage in the series you don’t want to be jumping into the storyline here. Hopefully there is some pay off with the overarching threads soon.
July 8, 2021
This was a solid Wolverine story that had lots of intrigue and one of Wolverine's core struggles, the fight between his animal instincts and rage against his intelligence and morality. The art left a little something to be desired for me, and a few of the plot elements were a bit too predictable at times (I also wonder why Cyclops didn't give the Muramasa blade to Nightcrawler, a gifted swordsman instead of keeping it himself, but that was the prerogative of the writer, I guess, and that was an interesting ambush scene with some unexpected elements, as well. I liked the use of text boxes to show Wolverine's instincts taking over, and his own struggle to maintain self control. This was a really solid book, despite it using some elements that aren't favorites of mine, and I can appreciate that.
December 1, 2021
This volume is kinda bad.
Wolverine and Daken team up to go after Romulus but first something with Cyber and betrayal of Daekn again and he wants the muramasa blade so X-Men vs Daken and then in order to stop it Wolverine tries to take the aid of fury but that doesn't go well and yeah its a mess of a story end being Daken bonded to the muramasa I guess and something with wolverine's complicated history and all that shit.
Its bad trust me, the writer is just trying to complicate the plot now. You're better off not reading this pile of trash. Wolverine is better as a mysterious character and trying to give him a definitive origin and trying to complicate thing and saying all roads lead to romulus is just big dumb mess.
Wolverine and Daken team up to go after Romulus but first something with Cyber and betrayal of Daekn again and he wants the muramasa blade so X-Men vs Daken and then in order to stop it Wolverine tries to take the aid of fury but that doesn't go well and yeah its a mess of a story end being Daken bonded to the muramasa I guess and something with wolverine's complicated history and all that shit.
Its bad trust me, the writer is just trying to complicate the plot now. You're better off not reading this pile of trash. Wolverine is better as a mysterious character and trying to give him a definitive origin and trying to complicate thing and saying all roads lead to romulus is just big dumb mess.
May 23, 2018
Braithwaite is the man!
Finally, here is an amazing artist who not only draws panels that are exquisitely beautiful and wonderful to visually explore, but also knows how to draw Wolverine in a way that I can see him.
Now, Wolverine does not have to have a singular look. I've seen lots of artistic interpretations that were beautiful. But Braithwaite gets it. He gets art. He gets tone. He gets Wolverine.
And as must as the last artist from the previous volume was an improvement, Braithwaite just blew that artist away.
This is the artist to watch. I might start reading new titles if he's the artist.
Finally, here is an amazing artist who not only draws panels that are exquisitely beautiful and wonderful to visually explore, but also knows how to draw Wolverine in a way that I can see him.
Now, Wolverine does not have to have a singular look. I've seen lots of artistic interpretations that were beautiful. But Braithwaite gets it. He gets art. He gets tone. He gets Wolverine.
And as must as the last artist from the previous volume was an improvement, Braithwaite just blew that artist away.
This is the artist to watch. I might start reading new titles if he's the artist.
December 31, 2022
Father and Son, Working Together. Sorta.
With the help of Charles Xavier, Daken learns the truth behind his mother's death and joins Wolverine, his father, in the quest for revenge against Romulus, the person responsible for everything that happened in their lives. Seeing father and son working together would make you wonder if Logan can really trust Daken.
Later on, Logan learns that he has a deep connection to Romulus and his plans for Daken to become the next-generation Weapon X. Logan has to stop his son from becoming the weapon Romulus wants him to be. This is a great series so far!
With the help of Charles Xavier, Daken learns the truth behind his mother's death and joins Wolverine, his father, in the quest for revenge against Romulus, the person responsible for everything that happened in their lives. Seeing father and son working together would make you wonder if Logan can really trust Daken.
Later on, Logan learns that he has a deep connection to Romulus and his plans for Daken to become the next-generation Weapon X. Logan has to stop his son from becoming the weapon Romulus wants him to be. This is a great series so far!
February 11, 2019
Daniel Way is one of those writers who can mine great stories just about as often as he pushes out rote action stories. Here, he manages to do both in one arc.
The story starts promisingly enough. The excitement ramps up towards an ingenious action setpiece in the second act and then...goes nowhere. The arc ends where it began, with little consequence other than a contrived threat that is never really played upon.
Only for true diehards. Adds nothing whatsoever to the Dark Reign storyline.
The story starts promisingly enough. The excitement ramps up towards an ingenious action setpiece in the second act and then...goes nowhere. The arc ends where it began, with little consequence other than a contrived threat that is never really played upon.
Only for true diehards. Adds nothing whatsoever to the Dark Reign storyline.
June 19, 2022
I don't particularly know a lot of about Wolverine's backstory besides your standard movie knowledge and I've been reading this Wolverine: Origins issues sporatically so take this with a grain of salt. Though saying that, I do like the addition of Romulus boding over the Hudson family - it makes him seem more sinister than the issues leading up to this. Overall, I feel like not a whole happened.
March 23, 2018
Continuing the great x-read of 2017/18...
I just don't know. It isn't a bad story. It's just that the Wolverine/Daken story is already feeling pretty over played. Oh yeah, and have I mentioned that I hate the idea of Dark Reign?
I just don't know. It isn't a bad story. It's just that the Wolverine/Daken story is already feeling pretty over played. Oh yeah, and have I mentioned that I hate the idea of Dark Reign?
March 6, 2022
Read for background during The X Lives & Deaths of Wolverine & Live of Wolverine event of 2020.
September 23, 2020
Amazing, great, excellently written, I’m becoming a big fan of Daniel Way
November 1, 2021
The art and some of the plot twists were great, I just wasn't the biggest fan of the pacing.
December 22, 2024
Love the series.
Romulus is such a mysterious vilain.
Romulus is such a mysterious vilain.
June 28, 2012
It's rare for one of these Big Event Tie In books to be worth much, but this one was a lot of fun. Romulus' plan for Daken is revealed, and we get a nice surprising ending. This series wavers a lot, but I like this one.
One complant: the bridge between the previous book and this one has to be the shortest team-up ever. Daken had a rather significant change-of-heart somewhere between books. I can only imagine that was Marvel, Incorporated's doing and not Way's. But it will work out best in the long run--we can't have Wolverine and Daken fighting in this book forever without it getting tedious.
One complant: the bridge between the previous book and this one has to be the shortest team-up ever. Daken had a rather significant change-of-heart somewhere between books. I can only imagine that was Marvel, Incorporated's doing and not Way's. But it will work out best in the long run--we can't have Wolverine and Daken fighting in this book forever without it getting tedious.
November 25, 2012
I agree with Sam's review. This story's entertaining but also very convoluted and to fully get yourself immersed in it, you have to imagine this entire series' existence as happening inside its own bubble. As it is, other than the Daken character popping up here and there in the Marvel Universe, I can't think of any way this series has helped re-define the status quo for Wolverine in the MU, as no mention of other characters have been made in the [many, many] other books he's in.
As retcons go, this series has been a gold mine, but will they stick or be swept under the proverbial rug in time?
As retcons go, this series has been a gold mine, but will they stick or be swept under the proverbial rug in time?
July 27, 2011
At a certain point, these books stop being fun and instead become a burdensome chore. It's almost as if Wolverine writers are being harvested from soap opera writing rooms. Long lost sons. Enemies back from the dead. Amnesia. So repetitive and altogether a bore. They just can't let Wolverine be his own man. They have to have him constantly entrenched in a war with a supreme puppet master and if not fighting Sabertooth, then I guess it's his son, Daken, who is really just another version of Victor Creed.
This book gets three stars for Cyber, the Masamura blade and bringing in the Tinkerer.
This book gets three stars for Cyber, the Masamura blade and bringing in the Tinkerer.
June 28, 2011
Didn't care about Wolverine & his son's relationship or the fmsaily mystery. The writer loses points for making Cyclops take the sword to meet Daken. That was a really dumb move that no leader of his level experience woul dmake.
February 10, 2014
I have always loved Wolverine... he was my favourite character of the X-men.
And I was given this edition as a gift for my birthday.
I just got to reading it yesterday.
I loved it to the point that I am going to go and buy the 5 previous editions and the other 2 new editions to read and COLLECT :D
And I was given this edition as a gift for my birthday.
I just got to reading it yesterday.
I loved it to the point that I am going to go and buy the 5 previous editions and the other 2 new editions to read and COLLECT :D
December 6, 2010
Wolverine and his son Dakken battle each other and also battle others together. Looking for the original Romulus
Good art and decent story.
Good art and decent story.
June 29, 2011
Ok, a bit repetitive with Wolverine and Daken but I suppose this story had to be told to move the character of Daken on.
February 18, 2013
It was ok. I usually like Wolverine related comics, but this one felt flat to me. His whole back story is too jarbled for me to particularly care about.
April 27, 2013
Despite my not reading them in order, they are still extremely entertaining, the drawing is fantastic and the storyline is as compelling as ever.
August 5, 2013
Accidentally got volume 6 instead of 1, so there were some events spoken about that I didn't know. Still, a good volume about Wolverine and his son. Apparently Wolverine has a son!
November 29, 2013
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