Old Man Logan #39-40

GLOB LOVES, MAN KILLS pts I and II

Written by Ed Brisson
Penciled by Ibraim Roberson
Covers by Mike Deodato Jr
Published May 9 and May 23, 2018

   Logan returns once more to the mansion and the younger, C-list X-Men are happy to see him. They immediately share news of Glob's upcoming date. Meanwhile, Dr. Reyes begins running tests on Logan to find out why he's not healing. High white blood cells counts mixed with the regenix has the old mutant healing far too slow. She promises to research with Beast, but advises he stay out of trouble in the interim.

Regenix? You druggie.

   Upstairs, Glob chats with his mutant mingle hookup, Sasha. As Shark Girl teases, he heads out while the rest of the X-Teens gossip. But when he walks up to her house, he steps into an ambush. Sasha is tied up, and the Purifiers plan to kill her if Glob doesn't do exactly as they say. They fit him with a suicide bomb and send him back home.

Well that's something you don't see everyday.

   When he returns, Logan can smell it. He begs him to stay away and blows up the mansion foyer. Inside, he explains what the plan was. He was supposed to bomb the mansion's security center, but picked a less occupied place instead.

Dammit... didn't Dr Reyes just tell you not to do that?!

   Outside the Purifiers bum rush the mansion. Logan directs Anole to escort all the kids to the Danger Room while the Diet X-Men fight back. Later, Glob sees the perps with flame throwers. He leaps towards them and notices Sasha is one of them. It was all a ruse, she said, and she insults the mutant over and over again. Luckily Shark Girl decks her out, and before long, all the commotion comes to an end.

If you were a shark, I'd expect you to bite.. not punch. But whatever.

   The issue wraps with Logan explaining to Glob that he's never alone. With the X-Men, he'll always have a family. With that, he climbs on to his trusty motorbike and this issue and storyarc come to a final conclusion.

Wolverine riding away on a motorbike. What a new way to end things.

   So... wait. What is Marc Guggenheim's typically terrible X-Men Gold doing in my Wolverine book? While Ed Brisson has been on a tear for awhile, it's only fair that every book can't be a winner. Enter these two issues - just to remind you that putting the X-Mansion in Central Park is still the dumbest thing I could ever imagine. Unfortunately the next round pits Logan against the always tired Kraven the Hunter. I'll give it a chance, but it's got to do better than these two did. I give them both a series record low of 6/10.

It's a long way from those Jeff Lemire/Andrea Sorrentino days...

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