Daken: Dark Wolverine

Over 24 issues from 2010 to 2012, Marvel’s Daken: Dark Wolverine carved a brutal, morally complex path through the X-Men corner of the universe, starring Akihiro—the son of Wolverine—as its antihero. Writers Daniel Way and Marjorie Liu, alongside artists Matteo Buffagni, Mick Bertilorenzi, and Giuseppe Camuncoli, explored Daken’s manipulative cunning and fractured family legacy, often pitting him against figures like the Human Torch, Johnny Storm. This series matters for giving Wolverine’s most dangerous offspring his own spotlight, deepening the noir-tinged, emotionally volatile side of the mutant underworld.