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[WWC] JASON AARON 'WOLVERINE: MANIFEST DESTINY' Q&A
| | Wolverine's got a past everywhere he goes and writer Jason Aaron took some time to explain why heading to San Fran is a bad plan for the three-clawed man | | | By Jim Gibbons | | Posted 6/28/2008 | |  | | | Jason Aaron's put the ol' Canucklehead in a pit and pumped him full of lead, sent him to the Middle East to get blown up by Mystique and now he's got a new tale for Logan that'll have him set for a John Woo style beating. Alongside artist Stephen Segovia (Wolverine Origins), Aaron's sending Wolverine into Chinatown for four issues of throw down! | | ![[WWC] JASON AARON 'WOLVERINE: MANIFEST DESTINY' Q&A](http://ep.yimg.com/ip/I/wizarduniverse_2057_433375130)  WIZARD UNIVERSE: Can you give me the run-down of Wolverine: Manifest Destiny? Is it just him heading to San Fran?
AARON: Yeah, it's just tied into the current X-Men event, with their change in their base of operations to San Francisco, and just focuses on Logan's move and the—we figure as old as he is and as much trouble as he's been in over the course of his life, there are a lot of places around the globe where he's got a history, and San Francisco turns out to be one of those. And his moving there kind of stirs this bad blood from almost 50 years ago that he's gotta deal with.
It in particular starts when he sets foot in Chinatown. He says, "Well, I might as well get this over with," and as soon as he sets foot in Chinatown, we see a couple of older-looking gents who recognize him and are shocked and confront him and say, "What are you doing here? You were never supposed to set foot in Chinatown again." And the next thing he knows, the entire city is out to get him. So, we'll find out what he was doing in Chinatown 50 years ago, and how he's going to work things out now so that he can stay.
Is this going to be the Hand, another stock-Marvel syndicate or a whole different group? Who's going to be the main antagonist?
AARON: It'll involve the local criminal organization, the Triad, so he'll be pursued by-—initially, he's pursued by fighters from every dojo in town. At the end he comes up against the main protagonist, which is the local triad, which happens to be headed by his ex-girlfriend from 50 years ago and her group of super-powered warriors who are actually strong enough to do the unthinkable, and that's kill Wolverine.
So, your "Get Mystique!" arc in Wolverine was very much the classic Wolverine "hunt" story. Is this going to be more of a classic Wolverine's past story? What aspects are you really exploring with him in this?
AARON: It won't be as driven by flashbacks as "Get Mystique!" was, it'll touch up on what happened before, but almost exclusively it'll be dealing with things in the past. It'll relate in a large part to Hong Kong Cinema. Kung Fu films, especially the older stuff from the '70s, and also the John Woo heroic bloodshed movies, just all of that. We'll be dealing with San Francisco cops, and gruffy sort of newsboy legion street urchins, in addition to all the different dojos around town, and also the Triad, just all in sort of one big group looking to Logan, who's in the middle. Whether or not he can make up for the mistakes he made 50 years ago.
Is this going to be just a Wolverine solo story or are there going to be any team-ups?
AARON: I think it'll just be a solo story. He'll be fighting and teaming up with different characters as we go along, for the most part new characters, so... but we might see one or two of the X-Men pop up. I'm not sure yet.
You've been doing quite a bit with Wolverine since you went Marvel exclusive. Do you have any other upcoming plans with him?
AARON: Yeah, I hope to do a little more Wolverine. With this story line, I think it'll be very different from "Get Mystique!" as "Get Mystique!" was different from my story in Wolverine #56. If I do something else, I would like it to be something as different from this as everything else has been. I think that's one of the cool things you can do with Wolverine, is you can put him in totally different settings, totally different genres, totally different tones and everything, and it'll still work. He's that kind of character, he's got that history and that depth so he'll work in different stories.
I was reading Rick Remender's Wolverine: Dangerous Games story recently and he's a Kansas City guy, isn't he?
AARON: No, he's friends with all the Kansas City guys.
When I was reading that, I liked his stuff and it seemed like something that would mesh with yours, and I had to ask if you guys might be looking to team-up on a Wolvie book.
AARON: [Laughs] That's a possibility, we've been talking about something but it's just in the talking phase. He and Matt Fraction and I are all pretty good friends. He and Matt are already collaborating on Punisher. That's a possibility. Funny you should suggest that.
To wrap it up, I know you've got the Black Panther Secret Invasion tie-in stuff coming up soon, but do you have anything else at Marvel you can tease?
AARON: Just the three Secret Invasion issues. I'm actually just finishing up the last part this week.
I've had a lot of fun on all three issues, but the last is my favorite and it's probably going to be the best. And that's been a lot of fun to do in that it's not—it hasn't been a superhero story, it's going to be a war story, which is kind of why I was asked to do it [because I did The Other Side]. So with this last part I'm getting to focus on the Skrull commander, and it's pretty much told from his perspective, so it's more just a straight war book that just happens to involve the king and queen of this land, who happen to be Black Panther and Storm. Beyond that, I don't think I have anything else I can announce. But I'll have a couple of specials that might make it out at the end of this year but probably next year. New stuff a couple of characters I haven't written before. But for the long term, I'll be focusing on Ghost Rider, beyond Wolverine, and things popping up here and there.
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Note: The art shown here is a cover of Wolverine: Killing Made Simple by Stephen Segovia. | | | | | | | |
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