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Greg Rucka throws together a teenager who thought he lost his father, and a father who missed out on his son’s childhood to create a touching drama with intensely satisfying swashbuckling cosmic action.

I’m really curious to see how Chris Claremont will tackle the new Nightcrawler comic. Will Kurt be the glue that re-cements the bonds between Logan and Summers? Will he bring unity to the X-Men? God, I hope so.

'The Wolverine' essentially traces the heroic journey of Logan from despair to hope, from hiding and running from life to embracing it with a passionate ferocity worthy of his nickname. And it is not an unlivable ideal. It is a symbol of what we are all capable of.

Freed from the onerous task of having to tell Logan’s convoluted origin story, 'The Wolverine' plumbs the popular anti-hero’s tortured psyche and emerges with introspective gold while also delivering the kind of ballistic, berserker action that fans expect of the character.

Choice is the most powerful force in the universe, not prophecy, not destiny, not bad genes or traumatic experiences, not anything. Hellboy chooses to be good, to resist the darker impulses that are wired within him.

Somewhere between the two archetypes of Xavier and Magneto is the key to unlocking your potential. And balancing them just may be the key to reconciling your conflicting feelings and contributing to the world while protecting and looking out for your own interests at the same time.

The X-Men's struggle is essentially your own struggle. It is the struggle to find gifts amidst one's pain—to balance the need to be true to oneself, on one hand, with the natural desire to be accepted, on the other, and through it all to shine with dignity and grace.

There's often a thin line between what separates heroes and monsters. If you think about it quite a number of horror/thriller movies are basically superhero stories gone wrong. This post will talk about a sub-genre (or more like a sub-sub-genre) of horror that I'll arbitrarily call "superhero horror" and the morals and lessons we can extract from them.