Wolverine: Origins # 13 - Swift and Terrible: Part 3
is an issue published by Marvel that was released on 6 / / 2007Plot Summary
(Contains Spoilers)
In Brussels, a fire is started in an office building. It turns out to be a diversion as Wolverine is breaking into the bank next door. The alarms are vibration sensitive so it's his hope that the police will regard it as a false alarm due to the fire. Wolverine needs to get the C-synth the Black Widow stashed at the bank in order to make some Carbonadium before he faces his son.
As Wolverine is about to open the security deposit box, he hears the vault door close behind him. He knows it could be an officer or fireman but there is no scent, just like back in Berlin. Then he hears, "Daddy, will you play with me?" Wolverine is once again standing in front of his son.
Daken is quick. He puts two puncture wounds in Wolverine's chest before he can say a word. Wolverine tries to slash at Daken, but he easily dodges it. Daken gets in some more jabs until he slips in a puddle of blood and Wolverine grabs him by the throat. Daken lets out his third claws into Wolverine's forearm that makes him smile. He says he always thought he had a son. Daken is outraged by this comment. He says that he may be his biological son but Wolverine will never be his father. As he's about to reveal who that honor goes to, Wolverine cuts him in the face.
Daken regains his composure as Wolverine lunges for him. Wolverine's throat has been slashed as Daken tells him that he is better. As Wolverine sits on his knees, bleeding from his neck, he knows it's over. His son has beaten him. Daken is about to investigate what it was Wolverine was interested in at the bank when there is a long klump. Cyber has arrived. He says he's not there for Wolverine but rather the kid.
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Swift and Terrible: Part 3
This could be the best issue of Wolverine Origins so far. It's not because it's all that good, it's just that there's less stuff to complain about then usual. The flashbacks that plagued earlier issues in the series are completely gone now. It's almost a shame however, as that one the only real glimpse into Wolverine's past, but it was never executed properly.
This issue is kept fairly simple, although a lot of the elements in the story make no sense. Wolverine breaks into a bank after hours... and for some reason the vault door has been left open. Those are the little things that kinda scream out "lazy writing". There's another very odd scene... and I mean ODD, where either Daken turns invisible, or he's so fast that Steve Dillon's pencils can't keep up with him. I mean really... the sequence is confusing, and there's no explanation as to what's going on.
I almost started liking Daken for a split second this issue, but then Daniel Way chickened out. He's trying to make Logan's son seen creepy, but badass at the same time. Way should just bite the bullet and go all the way and make Daken into a creepy sicko, instead of hinting at it, and then pulling it back to try and make him look like he's a badass. It would have been much more interesting to just make him a disturbing character to the very core, with no redeeming qualities at all. It would give Logan an even tougher dilemma.
That is probably the biggest problem this series has. It's playing it safe, and not taking any chances. Instead we get "safe" stories about Logan's past that are littered with C-List characters, and when they finally do something big (Logan's son), Way seems confused as to exactly what kind of character he wants to create here.
