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Through the miracle of “Internet Magic(tm)” Josh and our friend Mikey saw “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” and agreed that the experience was worse than “X-Men 3: The Last Stand” and only slightly better than having a scorpion lay eggs in your eye. Based on the trailers, I thought the movie could go either way. It seemed equally likely of providing stupid-fun or stupid-stupid with no fun at all (as illustrated by the scorpion metaphor).
I’m sure we’ll talk more about the effect “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” had on Josh’s sensitive eye places on the Podcast (Episode 50 Live Tonight!).If you want to weigh in early, get-a-commentin’ and let us know what you thought (if you’ve seen it) or if you plan to see it at all.
MERCH UPDATE: No one bought the “Eh-Team” shirt, so it’s out of the Topatoco Store. I will make them available again, for those that missed the chance. I’ll be relaunching the HE store with Topatoco HE Shirts, my own shirts, and Comic prints (+books SOON!) some time next week. Until then, if you want to support The Experiment, picking up one of the other shirts from Topatoco would be a great idea. The better those designs do, the more likely I will be to add new designs in the future.
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Tags: comic books, hugh jackman, movies, wolverine
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Say it ain't so! I've waited since the first X-Men movie to see Gambit brought to the big screen!
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:15 pm
That's sad news to hear, I've been waiting for Deadpool myself…
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:37 pm
I agree – Gambit (and maybe Deadpool) are the only characters I've really been looking forward to seeing… I don't want this movie to be the horrible flaming pile of poo I think it's going to be.
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:58 pm
No link for "having a scorpion lay eggs in your eye"? Poo!
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:14 pm
so Liev Schreiber was wasted talent in this one? sadness.
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:16 pm
I guess I'll have to put my hope in the Magneto movie, that is still happening right?
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Well, whadjya xpect? It's leaked online, som maybe the version they saw was incomplete. What's so hard about waiting a month for the premier?
April 4th, 2009 at 12:25 am
I love how completely unfazed Panel 5 Josh is. Still wide-eyed and smilin'.
April 4th, 2009 at 1:03 am
ARMSPLODE. Win.
April 4th, 2009 at 1:52 am
*your
April 4th, 2009 at 10:33 am
wrong (you're/your)
April 4th, 2009 at 11:42 am
I've got it downloaded. I've also got a 40. Connect those things together to see how much I'm going to enjoy it.
April 4th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
I can forgive the "your/you're" mistake, since it's easy to correct.
However, once the muscles tear themselves off of Eli's bones, the arms should immediately fall at his sides, not maintain their previous position.
April 4th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
I've always wanted to see a wolverine origin story. Hopefully that will redeem any inconsistencies with the other characters. Immortal and the best at what he does!
April 4th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Maybe that's his power…he can control his limbs without the aid of muscles.
April 4th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Compared to the prior X-men movies, Wolverine was enjoyable. The only character in prior movies who managed to be at least a little interesting was Magneto. The others were just one trick ponies.
April 5th, 2009 at 2:09 am
Yeah but you can't fix stupid =(
April 5th, 2009 at 2:11 am
Ah man I was looking forward to finally seeing Deadpool they just ruined it =(
April 5th, 2009 at 3:40 am
ARMSPLODE did bring the funny, but my favorite is still the classic SHARKSPLODE! Keep up the goodness Joel.
April 5th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
"No one bought the “Eh-Team” shirt"
LIAR, because I bought one!
But I guess you mean it didn't sell well, its unforunate because I've got some compliments about mine. Guess its a shirt only a Canadian will buy, and there's only 30 million of us which equals a small market.
Oh well, I guess mine will just be really valuable when you get famous Joel.
Has Eli ever considered shaving his beard and going as Wolverines for Halloween or a con?
April 5th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
I bought one too, I wear it all the time.
April 5th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
I bought one too, I wear it all the time. And I'm not from Canada.
April 5th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
No one bought it from Topatoco.
April 6th, 2009 at 6:16 am
It's a damn shame about Wolverine.. I thought the first half of the film wasn't too bad.. Frustratingly almost-loyal to the sources.. Then it just decided to turn into the most bizarre un-required bullshit I've seen in a while
April 6th, 2009 at 10:27 am
It's a freeze-frame of the moment after Eli's arms explode. There will be a period between the loss of muscle support and gravity taking effect, therefore it's entirely right that at a given moment Eli's arms will remain in their initial position before falling through gravity.
An alternative explanation would be it's A FUCKING COMIC STRIP. Grammatical corrections are fine if Joel is serious about the strip (as we know it is), but pointing physiological inconsistencies on a piece of humour is totally pointless and, quite frankly, unnecessarily arrogant on your part.
April 6th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
I may have to see it just for eye candy consideration, no matter how much of a train wreck it is.
Wolvie's pretty hot on his own, but Liev Schreiber as Sabretooth? *swoon* I ought to have his babies, just so they'd get a double dose of rockin' hawt sideburns from both parents.
April 6th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Dude, it was a joke. Calm down.
You don't see me complaining about the fact that Josh keeps re-appearing despite the fact that he's been killed off about 20 times.