Author: Mark Millar
Publisher: Marvel
Starting in issue Wolverine #66, Old Man Logan takes place fifty years in the future in an alternate Marvel Universe. Fifty years ago in this alternate Marvel Universe, all the supervillains teamed up to kill all the superheroes and did just that. America is now split into four areas, going from east to west, Hulk Land, Kingpin Land, Doom land, and the President's Quarters.
Wolverine, who only goes by the name Logan now, lives in Hulk land as a poor farmer with his wife and two kids. Since the night all the superheroes were murdered, Logan has vowed to never fight again or even pop his adamantium claws.
In the first issue, Wolverine #66, the Hulk Gang, descendants of Bruce Banner, come to collect their rent money, but Logan does not have it. After beating Logan up severally in front of his family, the Hulk Gang leaves saying they will be back next month and that they want double the rent money.
That night as Logan is healing from the attack he sustained from the Hulk Gang, former avenger Hawkeye, Clint Barton, offers Logan a deal that he cannot refuse. Clint has some “precious” cargo that needs to make it all the way to the President’s Quarters and if Logan tags along with him, Clint will give Logan enough money to keep the Hulk Gang away from his family. Logan agrees to go, but under one term, he will not be a party to violence.
Fast forward through six amazing issues of Wolverine: Old Man Logan and we find ourselves at issue #72. By this time, we learn what actually happened that night fifty years ago when the supervillains murdered all the heroes and why Logan won’t pop his claws, Logan and Clint have made it to the President’s Quarters, Clint may have a hard time getting back, and who the president actually is, is finally reveled!
Without giving anything away, Logan has been through hell throughout this entire series and in issue #72 things just get way worse.
It was the most gratifying comic I have EVER read.
SNIKT!
10 out of 10
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