Wolverine 50 Years from Now Old Man Logan Review

SKINT!!!!!!!!

Ahhh..the sweet sound of adamantium popping out of the most rugged Canadian ever warms this 29 year olds heart. But what happens 50 years from now when all of Wolverine’s counterparts die of old age? After all he ages a LOT slower than everyone around him, one of the effects of his healing factors. Mark Miller, Steve MicNivenand Dexter Vines give you one possible future.

Before I get into this juice slab of meat go out and buy this when it comes out in a Graphic Novel Format. The art is spectacular, gory, and mature. The story is bananas, and anyone who is a fan of Wolverine will like this. The issues included in the Old Man Logan series is Wolverine #66-72 and the Giant Sized special that concludes this story.<—-(this info is good, just go to your local comic shop and pick up these issues if you cant wait for the Graphic Novel that collects all of them)

Get ready for some SPOILER action, I will try to keep it to a minimal.

So the story takes place 50 years after Red Skull got all the super villains in the marvel universe organized and took down the heroes in one night. No one really knows what actually happened that night, as per most usual Wolverine story lines. All that is known is that the super villains now rule, and most if not all the super heroes you know and love are dead, gone or broken. Wolverine resides in what was Sacramento California now called Hulkland where Bruce Banner and his inbred gamma hick family runs the entire west coast. Confused? let me map out the future of united states 50 years from now if the marvel universe was real.

Crazy right? Red Skull carved out and gave pieces to Villains that were intricate to his domination of the world.

Anyways ex Avenger Hawkeye has a package to deliver to the east coast and needs someone to help him traverse the new nation, he needs the Wolverine, but the person he finds is Logan.

Something bad, I mean real bad happened to Wolverine, he moved to Sacramento, has a wife and kid, and gets picked on by the Hulkgang who frequently harass him for rent. In fact Wolverine hasn’t popped his claws in 50 years since all the heroes died, NOT ONCE!

Logan has to escort Hawkeye cause the Hulkgang has been squeezing him for cash he doesn’t have and have given him 4 weeks to pay for 2 months of rent. They climb into the Spidey Jeep and are off. They run across some seriously aged  villains and heroes, and some new ones. Hawkeye is portrayed as a fornicator and has multiple kids form multiple women, nice for a blind dude!

Other highlights include the Ice Queen getting down with Dr Doom, a flashback that will make you weep for Wolverine, Red Skull wearing the Captain America suit, but my favorite was the Venom symbiont merging with a T- Rex (dinosaurs were genetically engineered out of the savage land and released into Dr Doom’s territory)

Jump to the end, Red Skull is extra scary, Hawkeye was double crossed, Logan escapes in Iron Mans suit after chopping off Red Skulls head with Captain America’s shield (oh the irony of Marvel) and flys back to Hulkland with more cash than he will ever need. He arrives with a smile on his face and is greeted by one of his neighbors telling him not to go in his own house. His family has been slain, Logan was 2 weeks early, and his neighbor tells him that the Hulk gang killed them for fun. And after 7 comics, Wolverine #66 to #72 the pages end with a 2 page spread, black black drop and in big bloody red the words you have been waiting for…

SKINT!!!

The story concludes with the return of the Wolverine, and he is out for some serious vengeance. Wanna know what happens? its pretty fucking epic, filled with some serious horror and some nasty Wes Craven type shit. Am I gonna spoil the ending, NOPE. Go out and buy it, the battle is EPIC.

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