To no-one’s surprise but his own (and only then for contrived dramatic purposes), Daken discovers that he’s Wolverine’s son. Apparently the bone claws and healing factor weren’t big enough clues! Some baddies kidnap Daken so Logan and Xavier set out to rescue him.
X-Men: Original Sin is a messy and pointless crossover arbitrarily forced into Daniel Way’s Wolverine Origins series. The storytelling is awkward at best. Xavier’s apparently back from the dead and walking around on his miraculously uncrippled legs without any explanation nor is it clear how and why Wolverine and Daken got separated after the opening scene. One minute they’re hijacking a pickup truck in the country, the next they’re in the city and Daken’s been kidnapped! Such is the jumbled nature of crossovers.
Also for no reason Mister Sinister is a woman who’s psychically trying to mind-control Daken into being the muscle for Sebastian Shaw’s takeover of The Hellfire Club. Except Shaw’s strong enough to bend adamantium so that whole subplot doesn’t make any sense! And the “original sin” of the title refers to when Xavier used Logan’s conditioning as a weapon when they first met, or something - it’s a tenuous connection at best to what’s going on with Daken and only further highlights the unnecessary nature of this book.
I really liked Mike Deodato’s cool artwork, particularly that flashback scene to Wolverine’s first Marvel appearance as a Hulk villain. The Daniel Way issues are readable too. Mostly though, X-Men: Original Sin is an unmemorable and poorly conceived spinoff that nobody, even those reading Way’s Wolverine Origins series, need bother with.
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