Hey, kids! Eric Mattias' name may not be on Magneto's radar but as a student enrolled at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, he observes the fabled institution from a unique set of eyes.
While other mutants are off saving the day or training to make X-Man, Eric ostracizes himself from his peers for his insecurity over his uncool power. He spends his time on the computer, reflecting about the world around him, while trying to cope with having "the world's suckiest mutant power."
You want to know what his power is, don't you? Well, in order to get all the details, you'll have to pick up Eric's book "Wolverine: Worst Day Ever" (written by his real world counterpart, Barry Lyga and due in stores everywhere April 22)!
Luckily, we've gotten hold of Eric's journal! We'll post two entries per week sure to shed insight into the life and world of Eric Mattias—look for them on Tuesdays and Thursdays on Marvel.com. The sooner we understand how mutants socially interact, the sooner our societies can peacefully coexist. 
The Scoop on Wolverine
This entry posted on May 10 at 11:52:01 pm by Eric.
Wow, so it just occurred to me, like, five minutes ago, that a while ago, I was talking about the X-Men and I listed stuff about all of them and then for Wolverine, I said I would talk more about him later. This is exactly what I said:
"And then there's Wolverine.
"More about him later."
But I haven't explained much about him at all!
OK, so since no one ever notices me, I get to hear all kinds of stuff. I linger around the X-Men a lot and this is what I've managed to piece together about Wolverine:
1) He hates being called "Wolvie."
2) He loves strawberry milk.
3) And sandwiches.
4) He calls people "bub." A lot.
5) He's the only person in the history of the known universe to call Professor
X "Chuck" or "Charlie" as opposed to "Professor Xavier" or "sir."
6) He's Canadian. (So, like, he can't vote. Oooh, bummer, right?)
7) His name is Logan. Not, like, "Bill Logan" or "Logan Smith." Just…
Logan. (Not even "Logan Logan," which would at least be two names!)
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See? Canadian!
Why else would
he wear that shirt? |
BTW, I thought a wolverine was some kind of tough wolf or wild dog because that's what it sounds like. But I looked it up on the Internet and a wolverine is actually — get this — some kind of smelly weasel. I don't know why Wolverine calls himself that. He doesn't really smell and he's not weaselly at all. Maybe he doesn't know what it means — but I'm not going to be the one to tell him!
Anyway, "Wolverine" sounds really cool, so maybe that's all that matters.
So, that's the basics. But here's the cool stuff:
First of all, no one knows how old he is. Even he isn't sure. It turns out his memories are all scrambled up and wiped out and some of them are even just plain deleted. He looks pretty young, but his healing factor could be keeping him youthful.
Right. His healing factor. That's the cool thing about Wolverine. Those claws? They're not even his main mutant power! It's totally not fair! He gets a cool power and claws.
His actual mutant power is healing. Like, if you punch him in the face and make his nose bleed, it'll stop almost right away. (I am not suggesting that you actually punch Wolverine in the nose. In fact, I'm specifically suggesting that you not punch Wolverine in the nose. Unless you like pain. Or unless you're Sam the Cannonball Who Hangs Around With Dani, in which case punch away. I'll watch.)
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Even when
he's hurt,
Wolverine
can still kick
your butt! |
He can get shot, cut, dropped off the roof and all that stuff. He'll just bounce back. The worse he's hurt, the longer it takes to get better, but he always gets better. Eventually.
At least… So far.
Anyway, so that's his power. And I am way jealous of it because I banged my knee running up to my room to type this, and it still hurts and I bet I'm going to have a bruise for, like, a week. So I could use a little healing factor right now, OK?
I'm not too sure about this next part, but from what I heard Cyclops and Marvel Girl saying the other day, it seems like a bunch of Canadian military guys grabbed Wolverine when he was younger and tied him down and injected this metal into his bones.
(That sounds way-cool and gross at the same time. There should be a word for things like that so that you don't have to say "Way-cool and gross!" What if we call it "way-gross?" I'm going to try that from now on.)
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I guess it
probably looked
like this when
the military
was messing
with him.
Not fun. |
They injected this way-gross metal into him. It's
called adamantium. (It took me forever to find it on the Internet. I kept spelling it with two d's and I thought there was a q in there somewhere.)
Adamantium is supposed to be totally unbreakable, which is way-cool, not way-gross at all. And they bonded it to his bones (I don't know how — with Super- Glue, maybe?) so now his bones are totally unbreakable.
I'm not clear on the claws — like, maybe he always had them, or maybe the military added them in. But either way — just to make things perfect — the claws are also made out of adamantium.
Whew!
This explains why Wolverine is just so tough. I mean, you can't break his bones. You can't crack his head open. And when you do hurt him, he
just gets better. Cyclops said that the only way to get rid of Wolverine for good would be to do so much huge, massive damage to him at once that his healing factor would be overwhelmed and he wouldn't be able to recover. But that's got to be impossible.
Right? Yeah, I think so. Impossible. Got to be.
I'm a little fuzzy on what happened to him after that. The Canadian army gave him the bones and the claws, and then he escaped from them. Or something. I don't know. And his memory was all goofed up like you wouldn't believe. But Marvel Girl says that it looks like his memory was messed up even before the military started messing around with him, so that might not be their fault.
Eventually, he ended up here, at the school. And even though he's not what you call a "joiner" or a "team player," he ended up being an X-Man. To fight the good fight and also get on Professor X's good side so that Professor X will help him recover his lost memories.
Well, maybe mostly to get Professor X's help and to fight the good fight a little bit.
I'm tired from typing all of that. I'm actually going to go to bed. Early.
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