“There’s suspense and tense atmosphere built into an audio drama, because you’re unable to see all around you,” he says.
“He has a tremendous offstage mythology.” Working with a character of few words in a medium with no visuals, he decided to reintroduce Wolverine by keeping him in the shadows.
“We wanted to mystify him again,” says Benjamin Percy, a novelist and comics writer who penned the podcast.
It's a fitting means of reaffirming the mystique of a character who’s more than a few years in the pop-culture spotlight.