Daniel Way talks Deadpool, Origins, Dark Wolverine

[Mark Caringer]

www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=20375

[Megalictis]

When Daniel Way first began promoting Wolverine: Origins he said in interviews that he had gone back through the years of stories and created a timeline for Wolverine's past. (And as enjoyable as that might have been he could have saved the time by just looking here - loganfiles.com/w-history.html - the end result would have been more accurate). That should mean he's Marvel's Wolverine expert. These first two questions sum up the problem I have with Way's comprehensive vision of Wolverine's history:

CBR: Monolith gets the ball rolling with a couple of continuity queries.
I'm quite enjoying “Wolverine: Origins.” It's impressive to see someone take up the challenge of mapping out Logan's history with as much detail as you have done. I do have some questions about the timeline though… Silver Fox has been dead/not dead many times over the years. You've stuck with her original death in the cabin. Do you have any plans to address who that Hydra woman was who showed up in the 90's claiming to be Silver Fox?
Daniel Way: Hate to be rude and answer a question with a question, but have you ever heard the story of Pandora's Box?

For anyone unfamiliar with the screen-name "Monolith," he's a moderator at the UXM forum and seems to have an encyclopedic mastery of Marvel continuity (X-Men in particular). Monolith is to Marvel "canon" what Capt. America is to - um - America. So when fandom's champion of keeping the record straight asks Marvel's controller of Wolverine's past about the single greatest continuity connundrum in Wolverine's history... Way ducks the question!

And then when it comes to addressing and perhaps resolving the conflicting information he wrote surrounding the actual time period when Wolverine lived at Jasmine Falls and Daken's birth, Way ignores the contradictions and just sticks to the vague answer:

Was Daken born (and Itsu killed) in the 1930s or 1950s? It seems to vacillate…
The Forties, actually.

This is my problem with Wolverine: Origins overall: before this story Wolverine's past was a jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces, and outright fake pieces thrown in; but the single magnum opus that's supposed to set the record straight (Origins) contains it's own internal and external contradictions.

[Mark Caringer]

I still wish i could get a picture of the so-called wall Way created to map out Wolverine's past. I also don't mind a few flaws in the history, because no one is perfect, but if they make a mistake, just say so, or tell us it will be explained later, through time travel or other such craziness.

as for the "the forties. actually" answer that was a golden opurnunity to back down the events of that time and really redem himself.....but...he didn't