As of the day this comic was originally posted, it’s been around 21.5 years since the first Fox X-Men movie came out. It’s probably no surprise that my one of my then-closest friends and I took a bus to the movie theater to see it on opening day; as dyed-in-the-wool fans of Marvel Comics, and Star Trek, we were easy marks for it, and got enraptured by Hugh Jackman’s performance as Wolverine the same as most everybody else in the audience.
It’s weird to think that Jackman’s Wolverine has been a fixture of my life for longer than I’ve legally been an adult.
Like most of the other people who cheered when he said, “Bub,” for the first time in that first X-Men movie, I’ve been hoping to get to see Jackman put on one classic Wolverine suit or another,* since the summer of 2000. Fortunately, thanks to the magic of action figures, and the patience of another good friend of mine offering his perspective on photographic color correction, I am now able to put Hugh Jackman into a classic Wolverine costume! I think it works.
*Personally, I hope it’s the brown-and-yellow, like the one that was teased in that deleted scene from The Wolverine. I’m not sure the blue-and-yellow would translate as well to live-action as other people apparently think it will.