Old Man Logan #7 Review
By Este
Despite originating in one of the X-men’s many dark futures, Old Man Logan brings us the best incarnation of Wolverine in forever. This is the Wolverine we all fell in love with and the book bloody enough to hold him.
Old Man Logan #7
Writer – Jeff Lemire
Artist – Andrea Sorrentino
Editor – Daniel Ketchum
Published by Marvel Comics
Old Man Logan #7 is the conclusion of the “Bordertown” storyline in which Logan travelled out to a tiny mining town in Northern Canada called Killhorn Falls in order to find and protect the young girl who would eventually grow up to become his wife.
Unfortunately for Logan, the Reavers followed him to those peaceful lands and began to shower the snow in the blood of innocent townsfolk.
Old Man Logan is telling the best Wolverine stories we have seen in a long time. Under the tenure of Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino, we now have a book about an old soldier who has seen much too much of war, who despite sacrificing everything within him to do so can never seem to protect those he holds most dear.
This series transforms the old cliché’s of Logan’s life into metaphors he’s struggled against all his life. Wolverine’s brutal fight against the Reavers is as ugly as it is inconsequential. Logan has lived too many lifetimes and the Reavers are just the current group filling the role of adversaries willing to kill innocents.
This book is cinematic and ugly, emotional and grounded. Logan has ceased to be the indestructible terminator he had been now that he is a little slower, in both action and healing. Every action now has a reason and a consequence. This is no longer a simple excuse for a popular character to have another book, it is the story of a loner surrounded by the ghost of his past placing himself upon the hero’s quest to rid the world of such monsters.
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The Bottom Line: At its worst, Old Man Logan has been a slow book, covering way too little ground in an issue, but at its best it is a glimpse into Wolverine’s soul, a look at his demons, and finally, how those beasts are forcing him to grow.
Grade: Despite being the end of a storyline, it’s a great Jumping On point. The art is gorgeous, the writing is spot on. This is some of the best Wolverine you will ever read.