Story
Old Man Logan #2 picks up where issue 1 left off, with Logan climbing the the wall of the Wasteland area of Battleworld.
Once he reaches the top, Logan encounters one of the Thor Corps who turns him into a crispy critter by frying him up with a massive lightning strike, sending him tumbling down the other side of the wall.
After the Thor Corp lady leaves, Logan then gets into a kurfluffel with a freaking tiger. Seriously. He gets into a fight with a tiger.
Things don’t go well for the Big Bad Cat as Logan gut stabs him right through the belly.
Immediately after this, Sabertooth shows up, but once again Wolvie is fried, this time by Storm who is joined by the X-Men.
Logan passes out and when he comes to, he discovers he’s among the X-Men, who he thought he murdered years ago.
The mind melting freak out he’s about to have is interrupted by Sabertooth who tracked down Wolverine’s scent, thus leading his and his minions right to the X-Men’s front door.
Magneto gets super pissed and sends Logan flying through a wall, and after he lands he looks up to see Apocalypse, and that’s where the issue ends.
What I Liked
Andrea Sorrentino’s artwork continues to be mind blowing and is yet again one of the high points of the book. I love some of the creative ways he works sound effects into the panels, finding ways to incorporate the setting of the story and even the characters into the actual words.
I really love the red tones as well.
Hands down, my favorite part of this entire issue was Logan taking on the tiger. I mean this is one freakin’ bad ass grandpa to straight stick this massive tiger right in his gut like that. This is just one more reason why Marvel needs to take Old Man Logan and make him the Wolverine in the new universe this fall.
I also liked the way Brian Michael Bendis took Logan out of his comfort zone, stuck him in this new place and basically pummeled the crap out of him with bad thing after bad thing, not giving him a chance to wrap his mind around any of the strangeness he was seeing.
I wonder how pissed that’s going to make him, since we all know it doesn’t take much to ruffle Logan’s feathers and making him super confused is a pretty quick way to get him worked up.
What I Didn’t Like
My biggest gripe with this issue is the length. It was barely 20 pages, and most of those pages barely contained any real story or character development.
In the first issue we had a lot of depth thanks in large part to the conversation Logan had with a dying Emma Frost, but this issue lacked that.
Sure, there was a little development for Logan, but it was so brief it felt rushed.
I really wasn’t too happy about completing this book in under 15 minutes. For the price paid for the comic, getting done that quickly without a solid pay off feels like getting a bit ripped off.
Overall, this was still a solid issue that demonstrates the story for this series still has tons of potential, but coming in at barely 20 pages with little character development and story progression, it’s not nearly as good as the first issue.
I’d give this a 8 out of 10.