Old Man Logan

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I generally don’t like alternate reality stories or future stories because I enjoy continuity.  That’s one reason I never really enjoyed DC books- it seems like the editors there are blowing up and re-creating their universe every couple of years to undo damage they did.

That being said, Old Man Logan is one of the best Wolverine stories I have read in a while (not including the Mystique story, which I enjoyed immensely).  The story is excellent, as is the pacing of the plot, and the art is wonderful.  It’s Logan as you’ve never seen him before, crossing a futuristic America  filled with intriguing new friends and villains to save his family back in California. 

The concept behind the story is quite simple: It’s fifty years in the future and the bad guys of the Marvel Universe have forged an alliance with each other allowing them to wipeout allm of the heroes, then splintered the country among the lieutenants.  Of course, this idea in any universe, including our real world, is ludicrous, because it is the nature of evil to self destruct because, quite frankly, evil always turns on itself.  Can you imagine China, Russia, North Korea and Iran ever engaging into a pact that would actually be sustainable?  Of course not.  Just like Dr. Doom, the Kingpin, and Magneto could never work together towards a common goal because the lack of trust and general suspicion among them would cause any such pact to quickly dissolve.

That being said, if you are a Wolverine fan, or simply a fan of good stories who picks up trade paperbacks every once in a while, read Old Man Logan when it is released in several months.  or start picking up the back issues- they’ve all been through multiple printings and shouldn’t be hard to find.

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