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Howard Mackie told me that when they were looking for shots to demonstrate powers in OHOTMU, they’d first check to see if I had ever drawn that character. Reason: I almost always included cause and effect in the same panel.

Fast forward twenty five years, and find a shift in fan attitudes (bad boys rule!) and a bit of clumsy scripting, and we suddenly had Scott transformed almost instantly into a "dick".

Leads to one of my long-standing rules: Do not blame the characters for being written badly.

As Shooter himself mutated, Logan’s homicidal maniac nature became less and less acceptable, and Chris began slipping in references to Wolverine’s “berserker rages”. Entirely contrary to the basic underpinnings of the character.

All of which adds to the many reasons I could never take this book to Marvel. Too many people have been drinking the kool-aid for too long.

(In a desperate effort to quiet such a fan I once suggested the beams emerge in rapid pulses, so fast they appear to be a continuous stream. Light sneaks thru in the microseconds the beam is “off”.)