Gorgeous art. So much slaughtering.

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Underwhelming at best. ( )

Wolverine: Old Man Logan
Volume 1
Author: Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Publishing Date: 2018
Pgs: 115
Disposition: Hoopla eBook via Irving Public Library - South Campus - Irving, TX
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REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS

Summary:
Beyond the Heroes’ Fall, Wolverine still lives. Old Man Logan has survived the slaughter of his family by the Hillbilly Hulks and the murder of his one remaining friend from the old days, Hawkeye. But something has changed. Logan awakens in the present world of the Marvel Universe, still an old man. The Fall hasn’t happened yet. The Wasteland exists only in his memory. He can change it. He makes a hit list that would change his future and keep it from coming to be. Only the Hulk that he encounters first isn’t the Hulk that he’s looking for. The Hawkeye who he goes to for help, isn’t the Hawkeye that he knows. And then, he encounters Old Man Rogers.
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Genre:
Marvel Comics
Superheroes
Apocalypse
Post-Apocalypse

Why this book:
Because the original OML series within the Wolverine book was freaking awesome.
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The Feel:
It’s a Western, like OML was, only with a Terminator dropped on top of it.

Favorite Character:
Always OML. He’s Clint Eastwood from the Sergio Leone classics with claws.

Least Favorite Character:
Banner. It’s obvious that the Gamma finally drove him crazy, but not enough is said about that. He went hillbilly into the caves and took his cousin as his bride. And Banner would see that as logic? It disrespects the Hulk. Though the Hulk as being currently presented, Devil Hulk, I could totally see that guy evolving into incestuous, gang leader Hulk. Most of Banner’s other personalities would be disgusted by him.

Favorite Scene:
Naked, time travelling, old man popping into the street, in public, very, very naked.

Cap leading Logan to Logan’s own tomb. Showing him in no uncertain terms that this isn’t his world. ...even though later on in comics, young Wolverine will be alive again. … ...younger Wolverine. :/

The Sentinel crying for Wolverine not to hurt it would be a mind f’er.

Favorite Concept:
Naked, shot Logan running from the cops in New York City. Old man, you need some clothes.

Logan named his son Scott. I’m not crying, you’re crying.

Hmm Moments:
Not his Hulk, not his Hawkeye...maybe it’s dawning on him that this isn’t his world. Maybe?
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Last Page Sound:
The denouement flashback/reprint of OML’s last showdown with the Hulk gang. Woof.

Questions I’m Left With:
Have we ever gotten Wolverine and Hawkeye friendship beyond the OML alternate history/alternate world?

Author Assessment:
I’m in on more OML.

Editorial Assessment:
Didn’t necessarily need the flashback/reprint to the final showdown with Banner and his Hillbilly Hulk Gang. Would’ve been a strong finish with just him and with Storm, Iceman, and the Sentinel and Storm asking if it’s really him.
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I have so many questions as I finished Volume 1. First off, the art was fantastic. The turmoil of Logan was palpable through the pages. And this comic was gritty and graphic in a lot of places. I maybe got a stomach ache a few times based on what I was reading. All in all though, great job by Jeff Lemire!

This volume collects Old Man Logan (2016) issues #1-4.

There is a lot going on in this volume, but I was able to follow it very well. We find Logan in I believe the current version of the Marvel universe. We have lady Thor, another Hulk, Old Man Rogers, etc. I am not going to look at what universe that is though. I just don't have the energy to do the research. But somehow, someway, Logan wakes up in New York before the fall. And that fall ended up being the end of all of the Avengers, X-Men, etc. pretty much the good guys when the super villains got together and wiped them out.

Logan thinks that maybe he has been sent back in order to stop the fall from happening, which means he can start taking out people who he has an axe to grind against. First stop, a man who smacked his son (yes Logan has kids in this one) in a different time and place. And next, Banner. Yeah our Hulk apparently went full on evil after the fall and his scenes were gross. I maybe got queasy with him talking about him siring kids with his cousin She-Hulk and how she was the only one who could "handle" him. GAH!

I think that the volume combined shows how disoriented Logan is with the new time and place he is in and his need for revenge against those who he believes must be killed. This Logan does not seem to have a code anymore. It is straight up kill or be killed.

We have a look at a lot of familiar faces in this one. I am not going to get into them here though. I thought the writing was graphic as were the panels. I would suggest not eating while reading this. And the flow was top-notch between showing the past (future) and present (different timeline?) so at least I was not confused by that.

I definitely think that this volume kicks off with Logan feeling out of time and out of place and wondering what he is supposed to do if it's not to avenge those he loved and lost.

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I think the story is pretty good, and it's an interesting way to have Old Logan in the main Marvel universe. I don't care very much for the art style, though. It's a little choppy, and at times it's hard to recognize characters. This volume also includes the climax chapter of the original Old Man Logan TPB as a bonus, which seems a little out of place. ( )