Characters With Clout

Wolverine

The X-Men workhorse dominates comic books and the action-figure, video, and movie industries. Twentieth Century Fox hopes to release ''X3'' in May 2006, and the Marvel comics provide a wealth of possible future story lines. But first they need to figure out when Hugh Jackman -- a candidate to one day replace Pierce Brosnan as James Bond -- plans to shed Logan's adamantium skeleton.