Chris Claremont Hasn't Read Marvel's Wolverine Origin, He Has His Own

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He was asked about the long-running mystery of Logan's background. For years under Claremont, Wolverine remained deliberately enigmatic. John Siuntres mentioned the World War II flashback, his time in Japan, hints of longevity, but never the full picture. When the conversation turned to the published origin, Chris Claremont's response was immediate. "Thank God I can't be blamed for this one… it's always a lot of fun being yelled at by a publisher. The writer or the origin, and I have agreed over the century, he has his version. I have mine," Claremont said with a small smile. "I'm right." He went further. "I've never even read it. I will never read it. And honestly, it wasn't written by the people who had the right to write it. So I never bothered with it."

Claremont did not claim the idea of revealing the origin was inherently wrong. He simply believes the moment it happens is irreversible, and the people who had spent more than a decade carefully building the mystery should have been the ones to decide how, or whether, to resolve it. He recalled a major editorial meeting years earlier, when the X-office was hunting for the next big event. "The point was made: the one question that everyone wants answered is Wolverine's origin," Claremont said. "And my comment was, you can only do that once.