A quarter of a century after Marvel finally revealed the origins of Wolverine, the publisher is headed back to the character’s early days for Wolverine: Origin III – The Dark Age. The five-issue miniseries will be written by Paul Jenkins, writer of the original 2001 Wolverine: Origin miniseries, with art by CAFU.
When Wolverine: Origin arrived in 2001, it was one of those rare Marvel stories that actually answered a question readers had been asking for decades. Wolverine’s past had been deliberately kept mysterious for most of his existence, but Jenkins and artist Andy Kubert finally introduced readers to James Howlett and revealed the traumatic events that transformed him into Wolverine.
“Wolverine: Origin was foundational. It did not simply tell us how, why and where a young, frail Canadian named James Howlett became the super hero we know as Wolverine, it also showed his loss of innocence and his understanding of a cruel and difficult world,” Jenkins said. “Now, after 25 years, I’m privileged to present this story I have waited over a quarter of a century to tell. Where did Logan go? Which parts of his story were lost to history? What led to the events of Weapon X? The answers are not going to be what you expect.”
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