Wolverine 1990s influence | Ramblin' & Amblin' | Oct 26, 2026

When I was in high school, between 1990 and 1994, already Wolverine, especially Weapon X Wolverine, with his big, all those cables and crazy headset. If you look up Weapon X Wolverine, circa 1990, I would draw it. The mask, it was iconic, but that he was... always angry.

And, uh, always ended up by himself, because he would, uh, inevitably hurt the people he was around with his, his behavior. I don't feel like walking through there, just walk back. Doing some maintenance over there. Same thing with the hulk, is that, um, he was, oh, there's another Caterpillar here.

I'm gonna have to look those up. I think that's a monarch. I'm not sure. But, um, The Punisher, because he was the absolutist.

Um, again, this is a 1990 skateboarding kid, and he should, he would draw this, the, draw the Punisher skull, and draw Wolverine , um, for my, uh, Yeah, there was something about, that you just, you just take a beating, and you just take a beating, and you just take a beating, and then get up, and then take a beating, and get up. And the Hulk, and the Hulk, and the Hulk, and the Hulk, and the Hulk, and the Hulk, and the Hulk, was that he was, you know, Bruce Banner, dealing with his anger, and this, um, and that it was actually Bruce Banner, who was more dangerous than the Hulk, in some ways. even later when a spawn came out that was so edgy I loved it at age I used to draw spawn real big spawn pictures that was unfortunately unfortunately whatever it doesn't matter I'm leaning into the current um dung uh complaints about Bob Liefeld but he was I read Cable I read X-Force I read all that stuff when I came out because you could get it at Sears and the comic shop that I used to go to when I was even littler um closed down so I would buy my comics at Sears um you know get all of the uh dark not dark horse um uh image comics and um brigade wild cats something hawk um stuff like that it was all pretty it wasn't great but uh I I had until my kids destroyed it I did have the second appearance of Deadpool uh comics still in my um collection I had a little teeny tiny collection that I kept for years in the after high school um when I re-enlisted all of my belongings were destroyed in a fire I lost almost everything except a few things that were just like tucked away in my parents basement including these comics but um uh I would I was just don't say obsessed with these characters but but Rob Liefeld did and Todd McFarlane um uh and their love of pouches and big weird looking future heuristic energy weapons uh really inspired me to the point where from my high school um my high school uh final art for my I was in art class and I fancied myself I was going to be an artist but really all I did was I drew not very well and I was fixated on drawing certain types of scenarios certain types of characters and I didn't have a whole lot of interest in really refined art um which would explain why I was so attracted to what I'm like because come on let's like I'm sorry man like you made enough money I don't have to feel bad and I 've seen I saw Deadpool Wolverine eight times and yeah yeah yeah it's before I knew what I know now about those individuals but it was a very meaningful um poignant movie for me at the time it's odd to think about Ryan Reynolds movie as poignant but it was especially for the time and what I was going through and just like in high school I was going through a lot of anger frustration impatience I I was overwhelmed all the time I didn't trust anybody I was recovering from a lot of bullying um it was pretty bad not just the teachers I mean not just the students but also the teachers and my parents weren't helping and my family wasn't really helping but so I was carrying a lot of anger that really uh was why those characters appealed to me so much because each one of them Hulk his rage is invincible and the angrier it gets the more powerful they got and Wolverine same thing the angrier he got and the more you hurt him the the um more dangerous he became and and more formidable you didn't want to mess with him and uh Punisher he was an absolutist he knew who was good he knew who was bad he was the judge um it was a very much high school kid and that's how these stories resonated with me at the time he said he was like power um fantasy but the power fantasy wasn't to have power over other people i didn't imagine myself as even superman or anything like that but i do love the new superman and you know what i also read lobo and i i was i'm aware there was a parody now but that's kind of what makes it even funnier i love i freaking love lobo he was not necessary for the ruin of tomorrow that was such a cop out by the studios putting him in there because she didn't need anybody's help she pulled that off you got to go read the book well supergirl woman of tomorrow amazing story oh hi i'm sorry so i think i pass amazing story but um these characters aren't always about when we see power fantasy we don't always mean power over somebody else domination it's also resilience um trying to deal with with a hostile world how to protect yourself and the stories that you try to put in your head to say like okay yeah i'm gonna be like that and uh yeah it was my high school year uh end of end of high school and my art teacher was so mad at me because i did this um because i i kind of rushed it in the usual adhd fashion but i drew um the spawn lifel mcfarlane cable more at that time than even maybe even deadpool uh inspired mickey mouse so it was mickey mouse uh full full profiles from face on and he's kind of got his head turned to the right again this was lost to time but it was the big mickey 's head and then he's got a ripped body you know absolutely ripped like uh a comic book character with uh you know straps of like suspenders with pouches that i don't even know why i just drew pouches on there i'd try i think i'd probably try to imagine what was in them but uh and he 's holding up a pistol a futuristic uber photon whatever energy weapon pistol like cable or one of them would have had in that era and uh there's a dystopian uh backdrop that is all buildings burning and smoking and and uh you know he's just coming from a battle you know and he's uh he's ripped but he's like oh you know however uh however mickey doesn't don't copyrights drug me i'm so accurate but um when uh deadpool wolverine came out and it was about disney oh my god i lost my mind i i've always been an insufferable i called it but i called it sure enough there it was there's uh there's deadpool and mickey mouse because you know that's what you look like that's what you look like it was deadpool really with mickey mouse's head and then uh deadpool wolverine comes out suck it fox yeah it's unfortunate about those two actors but uh i love that movie still it's um it is what it is and it is a really hard time to separate the artist from the art but um i drew the picture when i did and then the movie came out and it blew my mind and i saw it eight times with friends with family by myself um then i bought the dvd and then the news starts coming out anyway yeah hulk wolverine and the punisher 1990s just absolute gold and um the eyes of uh 1990s era mike hall and they would just draw their symbols i put them on skateboards so that's why when the police started putting punisher skulls on everything i knew that they didn't know because these exact same kind of people that used to beat me up for liking comic books and make fun of my drawings in high school and now they love it so i must say that kind of story for the next video all right thanks bye