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Comics: Old Man Logan

Comics: Old Man Logan

Story

A while back, something bad happened, and almost all of America’s heroes are gone. Logan is now living on a small farm with his wife and children, where they barely have enough to make ends meet. When the story begins, Logan’s behind on a payment and the Banners show up to beat the crap out of him for nonpayment. They give him a deadline and make threats against his family.

A blind Hawkeye shows up and talks Logan into driving cross-country with him (in the Spider-Mobile, no less) to make a mysterious delivery. As the story progresses, the two are put into several situations where Logan refuses to pop his claws or fight, much to Hawkeye’s disgust.

We find out that all of the villains of the Marvel Universe got together years ago and launched an attack on the heroes. Wolverine single-handedly takes a bunch of them out until he finds out that (oh no!) he’s been tricked into fighting his friends!

Seriously, I can’t tell you how many times the “Wolverine is brainwashed/possessed/duped/whatever and has to fight his friends” plot has been used. There’s even an issue of Wolverine where Cyclops comments on how susceptible Wolverine is to it. Anyway, it messes him up so much that he attempts to commit suicide – you can guess how that goes – and “Wolverine” dies that day. So now Logan’s a pacifist who won’t use his claws.

Right.

Anyway, the Logan/Hawkeye road trip ends in tears, surprise surprise, and we find out it was all a sting operation run by the Red Skull to draw out remaining heroes. Of course Logan ends up fighting him.

With barely enough time left on his deadline, Logan heads back cross-country so that he can pay off the Banners and won’t lose his farm. This, of course, doesn’t work and he arrives to find his whole family slaughtered because the Banners “got bored”.

This in turn results in Logan popping the claws and wiping out almost the entire clan. That didn’t last long.

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