OF A GOLDEN AGE

. . . Really?:

The slightly insane but entertaining zenith of this cheesy melodrama was the 1985 publication of the graphic novel God Loves, Man Kills, a morality play about racial discrimination in which passages from the Bible are quoted and the leader of the X-Men, Professor X, is crucified on top of the World Trade Center.

From the aptly titled “Wolverine is Ridiculous,” today on Slate.

Selections of this article are making me laugh like a crazy person.

According to his new biography, Wolverine has been, at various times, a Canadian cowboy, a ninja, a private eye, a secret agent, a bootlegger, a mercenary, a bodyguard, a caveman, a victim of the Holocaust, a Vietnam vet, a World War II vet, a corrupt cop, and a lumberjack.

And this last one:

Oh, and he’s saddled with five children. (One died in utero, one is an evil clone.)

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