Dark Wolverine #90

It's not a horrible costume, really - I appreciate the way they sort of kept the pattern of Wolverine's mask without giving him the flare things (what the hell are those supposed to be, anyway?). The rest of it just seems like Evil Ninja Variant #7, though of course they couldn't resist the urge to work some kind of "X" in there.

I kid, sure, but on the whole I kind of enjoy Daken as a character. His specific plans with regard to dominating the world (their terminology, not mine) are just maddeningly vague; especially now that Romulus has been dealt with. Issue #90 was alright, but all he really does is prattle on about how sheeplike everyone else is - the same thing he's been doing since the series started focusing on him (including through most of Siege). And again, I don't think that costume is helping him any. It sort of works from a design perspective, but when I really think about the character, he's more of a Luke Cage type - street clothes all the way. That's all he really wore prior to Dark Avengers, and he only started wearing the brown-and-yellow then to piss off daddy. But he doesn't go around calling himself Dark Wolverine, so there's no reason to build a visual identity off that - he's Daken, and that's what he'd want people to know and fear him as.