QUOTE: Basic anatomy?  I guess that is the best reason you can come up with? If you discount some very basic concepts (that I can only assume that you don't see a problem with) with numerous other charachters, I can see you making that point. Things like Angel's wings, Sub-Mariner's wings, Nightcrawler's tail, hands, feet, and I am sure lots of other stuff that isn't coming to me right now.

Not even in the same ball park.  The Angel's and Namor's wings and Nightcrawler's tails are simply extra appendages or extended spinal cords, reduced digits, whatever.  Wolverine's bone claws are a complex mechanical system which would require complex mechanical mechanisms, like gears, springs, what have you.  Nature simply doesn't devise such mechanisms (except perhaps on a smaller scale).  Not even in comic books, before Wolverine anyway.

QUOTE: As far as them being practicaly useless, we can talk about that. Are claws useless for wild or even domesticated animals? I don't think so.

No, but then they're not made of bone either.  And they're not a foot and a half long (or however long Wolverine's claws are), so they're not liable to break as easily.  Of course, they were shown to break at times, which makes the premise even more ludicrous.

The real shame is that there was absolutely nothing wrong with the implanted claws.  And the revelation of bone claws didn't really add anything to the character.

QUOTE: And of course even if they were useless (and he has found them to be quite useful), then so what? It is a mutation.

They are useful because the script requires it.  No real thought was put into the decision to reveal Wolverine's claws as natural.  And if it's a useless mutation, what's the point?

QUOTE: There have been plenty of mutants shown in the MU to have some prety useless mutations. There was a guy in Defenders once who was a Mutant who had an extra finger. Real useful there.

It's a not uncommon condition in the real world, called polydactylism.  What's that got to do with Marvel's golden goose?

QUOTE: Keep trying.

That's quite alright.  I'm really not that interested in convincing you of the stupidity of Wolverine's bone claws.

I thought Guggenheim's arc left his healing factor as is. What it did restore was Wolverine's risk in dying, by stating that his soul might not return to his body even though his body can fully heal. It turned out that each time Wolverine died, his soul had to fight the Angel of Death to return to its body. Having a character that's been portrayed as an atheist deal with souls and angels didn't fit for me.

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That might just possibly be the worst idea I've ever heard!

And how did it come to be that Logan holds this special place in the cosmos that allow him to fight the angel of death everytime his body sustains such damage? That can't possibly be part of his mutation, can it?