Marvel, in fact, has the potential here for a fun (I know! That word is not allowed!) sort of "What If?" scenario. Give anybody who wants it their own crack at any existing title, beginning at any point in the continuity. And whether or not they'd ever worked on the book before. I think it would be a hoot to see different versions of the FF, the X-Men, Spider-Man, Hulk, etc, all picking up from different points and spinning off in their own directions, not bound in any way by canon.

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This wouldn't be unprecedented.  About 10 years ago, Marvel did a Fantastic Four miniseries whose high concept was, in essence, "What if instead of Jack Kirby just sort of leaving the FF, Stan and Jack had capped off their run with a yearlong celebration of the 100 issues that came before, pulling together all the various threads of the Marvel Universe that were in existence at that time."  It was a fun mini.

Fantastic Four: The Worlds Greatest Magazine was the name of the 12 issue series if I remember correctly, plotted by the same Erik Larsen who's busy on the "Growing Roses" thread as we speak.

I really enjoyed the Kirby "tributes" by Steven Rude, Ron Frenz, Bruce Timm and others.

Keith: The claws are adamantium claws.

I suppose that the "bones laced with adamantium" rather than "adamantium skeleton" explains what we see. Just my two cents though.

One man's "fun mini" is another's masturbatory crap.

If we assume that the claws do not telescope into the housings on the backs of his gloves (or hands, apparently, according to this image), they have to get up into his forearms somehow. Which means his wrist joint cannot be anything like normal -- and normal is what we see in that drawing.