QUOTE: Peter Svensson: "Personally, I think that Marvel should have released an anthology of different takes on Wolverine's origin so that none of them would be right. Like how DC did the Secret Origin of the Phantom Stranger. Chris Claremont's origin. Len Wein's origin. Roy Thomas's origin. John Byrne's origin. Cockrum's origin." That's a really good idea - seems like a good way to have the cake and eat it too. The "mystery man" concept is preserved but you still have all the dissection/deconstruction you would want.

Same here.  Brilliant idea.

The Wolverine/Mariko story I plotted, and that we would have
used had I stayed on the book, went like this (short form):

Logan and Mariko are in love. For what is probably the first time in his
life, he is happy. He contemplates retiring. He thinks about a little house
in the suburbs and a white picket fence. Bad guys attack. Mariko is
near-fatally injured. For weeks she lies in a coma. The doctors
pronounce her brain dead. Logan refuses to believe it. Jean (as originally
plotted) links his mind to Mariko. There is no one there. She is gone.
She is, he says, like a piece of meat being kept alive by machines. He
pulls the plug. "She ain't meat." He goes and slaughters the bad guys.

(A moment of this storyline ended up in FANTASTIC FOUR. Remember
when Sue has her revenge on the PsychoMan, and tells the others to stay
out of the room where she has left him? That was an echo of the scene I
had envisioned when the X-Men catch up to Wolverine, after he has
caught up to the bad guys.)

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Very, very cool.  I wish I had read that story.

I still feel that BWS's Weapon X story is the first to hint at the bone claws.