What You should Be Reading : Jason Aaron’s Wolverine

Wolverine is arguably the most famous comic book character created this side of the 70’s. However, regardless of your view on that debate, he certainly is the most overused and burnt out character in contemporary comics books. As a member of the Avengers, leader of half the X-Men, Principal of The Jean Gray Academy, Protector of China Town and struggling father - it’s safe to assume he has a pretty busy life. So much so that, with all his appearances, readers were all pretty much getting more of the same week after week.
That was of course, before Jason Aaron (Scalped, PunisherMAX) began his work on the character.

Wolverine : Weapon X

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This is where all the madness of the current run started. After the main Wolverine title was handed over to Logan’s son Daken, Marvel announced the new ongoing Wolverine: Weapon-X by rising star Jason Aaron. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Aaron’s work, this guy has a very twisted mind and is a very mind-blowing storyteller. With Weapon-X, Aaron gave us Wolverine as he was always supposed to be written: Badass, yet intellectual and sophisticated. In Weapon X, without too many details, we have one excellent arc after one another, some delving deep into his mind while others unleash the animal. Oh yeah, he gets a girlfriend too. Bet you wanna read this book now, dontcha.

... and Emma Frost is amused

Wolverine : The Red Right Hand Saga

With the relaunch of the Wolverine family of titles in 2010, Jason Aaron got the well deserved title of the de-facto Wolverine writer. With an initial run of arcs lasting seventeen issues, Aaron scripted a tale of Wolverine answering for past crimes from a mysterious organization called The Red Right Hand. I’m not gonna give away too much, but you can guess these are essentially people who are pretty miffed with Logan, and have something worse than death in store for him.