As much as I love Wolverine, I was quite interested to see how he’d play out as an “old man”. We’ve all seen most of the X-Men (and other superheroes) in their earlier forms. X-Men Evolution is a great example of this, but I mean, really, who wouldn’t want to read a comic book about Peter Parker in his 50’s or 60’s. Is he married to MJ or someone else? Does he have kids that continue his legacy like the Goblins did? Is he still Spidey himself? These are questions I’d like answered. However, this is just about Wolverine (mainly) and his being old and stuff, so this will have to do for now.
The first thing that you need to know about this is that it is set in a post apocalyptic type environment, reminiscent of Mad Max. I like this because even though it’s not technically a Post Kaiju Apocalypse, it is kind of a Post Mutant Apocalypse and that’s close enough for me. All of the villains out there decided to get together and finally take out the superheroes. While this idea has probably been toyed with before, I really do like the concept of it. I mean, any superhero really spends certain arcs of a story battling a bad guy. Then it gets boring or old or both and then the hero moves onto someone else. Spider-Man probably has the most arch-enemies, what with there being practically a different one in every episode of his animated series. And it’s obvious that, when you really think about it, sure there are far more baddies than good guys.
So we enter the life of Logan, who no longer wishes to be called Wolverine or draw his claws. He has a family now and has somehow aged to the point that he kind of looks like Tom Sizemore. While Wolvey has an obvious self-healing power, I didn’t really think that he could age. I thought that he’d just stay the same age as ever, you know, because he’s not actually a human. Guess I was wrong and Logan can go grey.
Wolverine might be old, but he’s still hard up for money. All these different villains own different parts of the U.S. and the Hulk family wants rent money from Logan and he doesn’t have it. Needless to say, Logan ends up going on an adventure with his old pal Hawkeye (who I once referred to as the “Marvel version of Green Arrow”, which he basically is) and they get into some shenanigans along the way.
While this has the post apocalyptic appeal to it, you also get to see many of the Marvel universe and their new roles in this time period. So bad news for most all of the superheroes, because they’re all mostly dead, but we do get to see some Hulk-like kids that look like they’re straight out of The Devil’s Rejects, a dinosaur who is part Venom, Red Skull and Emma Frost.
It also needs to be noted that despite this being a comic book that I’d like just based upon the atmosphere, it is also very VERY violent and filled with over the top gore. In fact, if you ever want to see people shot through the head and other such things happen along those lines… Yeah. Wolverine always comes off as a gentle anti-hero in the movies (and most of his comic books), where even though he can be totally badass and wreck shit, you know he’s got this soft side because he has to save the poor little children. This book, basically, rips off those stereotypes, and despite the fact that Wolverine is doing this to save his family, this still would get a really harsh rating if it were a movie (Or if it was unrated) mainly for the violent content.
So what you need to know about this comic book, for the most part, is that it is set in a post apocalyptic time frame with that whole “the world has been killed” vibe, plus there is a LOT of violence and ultimately, Venom-dinosaur, so yeah, read this because you won’t regret it.
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