2001 origin story for the popular antihero wolverine, told as a self-contained miniseries with no guest stars and no connections at all to any of the events in the then current marvel universe continuity. The word "mutant" is never used, there is no parade of guest appearances from familiar marvel mainstays or any reference to anything in the marvel universe. The first two issues are a moody, gothic romance with clear reference points in books like Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre , including epistolary narration by a female protaganist and really overt themes of class that mediate romance and family relationships. As an official origin, it doesn't quite work; it's too clean, too freudian, too perfect. The main character of "Rose" is too obvious and freudian in name and look. Her presence explains Logan's tendency to befriend younger women, and her red hair and name are an explicit reference to x-men character jean grey that is so obvious that it lends a eery quality to the rest of the proceedings. Origin works best as a lynchian alternate life of wolverine that neither officially happened nor didn't happen. I like to think of it as a trauma induced dream that wolverine has while being contained in that vat with all the tubes in the Weapon X facility.
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