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Robert Shepherd
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Take a look at the way Barry Windsor Smith drew Wolverines claws in the link below? I'm talking specifically about the metal sheaths attached to or coming out of his hands. 

I've seen the claws done in many ways over the years but I don't recall this version before. I always assumed the metal sheaths were part of his gloves.

It made me wonder, what is the right way to draw Wolverines claws? 

I know the movies have opted to have his claws pop out from between his knuckles. But thats not the original intent of how his claws work.

Thoughts?



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Brian Miller
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He didn't draw them that way for WEAPON X. 
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James Woodcock
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JR JR used to draw slightly raised sheaths during his run on X-MEN. I kinda liked it at the time. Very noticeable in the issue where Colossus fights Juggernaut in the bar
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It made me wonder, what is the right way to draw Wolverines claws?

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John Romita designed the character, Herb Trimpe drew his first appearance, and Dave Cockrum drew the first time he popped the claws without the gloves.

Len Wein had intended that the claws be part of the gloves (and that Wolverine be 18 years old).

Then Frank Miller ignored everybody and turned the claws into little samauri swords.

So take your pick!

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James Woodcock
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I will preface this in that I do not agree with what I write next, but ....

It looks like the current preference is for samurai swords. Which I hate hate hate
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Daniel Beziz
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I so totally agree with you James...
It makes no sense to me and I hate them !
And there is no reason at all for the sheaths to be on the hands and not on the gloves.
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It's hard to draw something on model when no one knows what the model IS.

Just a little logic says that Wolverine's claws can't be longer than the radius/ulna, or he couldn't bend his arms. They have to be anchored somewhere in the arm, or every time Wolverine tried to use the claws, they'd resist and bend backwards. He probably shouldn't be able to bend his wrist when his claws are extended.

And then the goddamned things are actually BONE?!?!?

Worst of all... why did I even have to think about this? I can't explain why Superman can fly, or why Thor can lift a car without it collapsing around its center of gravity, or why Cyclops doesn't blow his head off his shoulders... help me, I'm becoming FANBOYISH!!!
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Eric, just let it happen ;-).
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The bone idea was/is terrible -- and those bones claws were massive! 
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Josh Goldberg
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I could've sworn JB drew Wolverine's bare hands with visible external sheaths.  I pulled out my Essential X-Men to confirm, and I was surprised to see I was mis-remembering.
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Just a little logic says that Wolverine's claws can't be longer than the radius/ulna, or he couldn't bend his arms. They have to be anchored somewhere in the arm, or every time Wolverine tried to use the claws, they'd resist and bend backwards. He probably shouldn't be able to bend his wrist when his claws are extended.

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That kind of thinking is a warning sign that it is time to stop reading comics.

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And then the goddamned things are actually BONE?!?!?

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And that kind of thinking is a warning sign that it is time to stop WRITING comics!

When Len Wein conceived the character (planning him to be part of s new X-Men team even then), Wolverine was super-tough. Tough enough to bounce back from a fight with the Hulk. And that was pretty much it, as far as "mutant powers" went. The claws in Len's concept telescoped out of the gloves, as noted above.

Chris and Dave expanded on the character considerably, introducing the adamantium skeleton, and the fact that the claws were part of him. But for Chris, it did not stop there. As far back as when I was working on the book, he started talking about bone claws. I argued against the idea, as there did not seem to be any kind of "mutation" that would produce that particular configuration. No animal on Earth has claws that protrude from the BACK of its paws. Thinking I was putting the lid on that idea, and nailing that lid down tight, I did the scene in "Days of Future Past" where we actually saw the internal mechanism of Wolverine's claws.

But any idea Chris has, he never lets go of. When I left the book, the bone claws returned as a concept, and then as an actuality. And they still didn't make sense!

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Charles Valderrama
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I think I'm one of the few who lost interest in Wolverine the more I learned about him -- the last straw being when the bone claws were introduced.

-C!
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