By: Mark Millar Publisher: Marvel Comics Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 224 Publication Date: January 01, 2009 Studio: Marvel Comics
Product Description: Mark Millar and Steve McNiven - who last teamed for the monumental Civil War - bring us the most important Wolverine story of the 21st Century. Nobody knows what happened on the night the heroes fell. All we know is that they disappeared and evil triumphed and the bad guys have been calling the shots ever since. What happened to Wolverine is the biggest mystery of all. For 50 years, no one has heard hide nor hair from him... and in his place stands an old man called Logan. A man concerned only about his family. A man pushed to the brink by the Hulk Gang. A man forced to help an old friend - the blind archer, Hawkeye - to drive three thousand miles to secure his family's safety. Get ready for the ride of your life, Logan! Collects Wolverine #66-72, and Wolverine Giant-Size Old Man Logan.
Loved it! ^ I don't read a lot of comics, but I really enjoyed this. Great post apocalyptic story!
Flair, Style, and Falling Flat ^ Man, Wolverine as the Hooded Man over in Fantastic Four: World's Greatest? That was pretty sweet. He had Hulk as a son, and kicked all sortsa butt subtly, back before Marvel stuck him in your face, sorta like Claremont did years ago. Remember that?
Well, this is Wolverine IN YOUR FACE AND OLD AND STAY OFF HIS LAWN, oh yeah. He teams up with high-fan-following-but-not-mega-star Hawkeye, who is blind and they run around in the Spider-Buggy, which is mentioned yearly by Marvel Comics and appears maybe once every 3 or 4 years. They wanna take a package across Super Villain, USA, which seems like it's pretty much a "What if?... The bad guys won the Acts of Vengeance" scenario. We get lots of cameos from Marvel Universe dead guys, live guys, and some are pretty neat, but overall...
..Spoiler...
...It's Meh as all get out. There's not really lots of excitement here, there's little to get sad at when Hawkeye dies, we get pitiful Emma Frost trying to make herself look hot, we get Black Bolt killing Tyrannosaurus Venom, and we get Banner with super powers eating Wolverine, and how Logan got that Hulk guy to be his kid in F4:WG. But all in all, this really isn't a superstar book. It's just there for Marvel geeks to get a little fan-release over, and that's about it. "Ultimates" did that, and it was at least 17 times better. That's really all I have to say about this.
Another boring Wolverine story. ^ Growing up I read books, not comic books, but now that I'm growing tired of books I've turned to comic books and have found many great stories among great and bad artwork. It took me a while to realize that I just don't like Marvel, they produce the same crap over and over again with a pretty picture to make it look worthwhile. I gave this 2 stars for the artwork, because as an artist myself, I have to say it's spectacular, but I was barely able to reach the end of this book simply because the story was so incredibly bad. I really wanted to like Wolverine, he looks cool, has a couple of cool one liners, but I have yet to read a good Wolverine story and I thought Old Man Logan was going to be that story. Turns out they just ripped off great ideas from great stories like Unforgiven. Ripping off from good stories isn't a bad thing, but Unforgiven is all about pacing, Old Man Logan rushes into these crazy moments and it's clear that the writer and artist just couldn't wait to show some gore. With proper pacing and a little more subtly to the story this could have been great. Unfortunately it's a piece of crap with some pretty wrapping paper. Mark Millar needs to realize that story is the most important part of a book.. not pictures.
Quality Content & Packaging... ^ If you're looking at this book, chances are you know who Mark Millar is, and you know all about Wolverine.
I didn't read this elsewhere, so I felt inclined to praise the packaging of this title. It has your standard dust-jacket, but undernearth is a pearly-white hardcover, with ice-blue lettering.
Truly, this is the most beautifully packaged book Marvel has put out to date. Typically, when you remove the dust jacket, you're greeted with the plain-black cover, with plain-white/silver lettering. Some exceptions are the Daredevil omnibus (black with shiny-red outlined letters) and the Ultimate books (colored covers with black lettering)...
Yet, this book stands out with elegance.
Great ^ I purchased this item as a gift. I had not recieved it in a timely manner, so i contacted the seller. i was shipped out another book within the day. I did appreciate the gentleman that I had contact with and will continue to purchase items thru them. The book was in good condition and the service was excellent.
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