Old Man Logan #10

Written by Jeff Lemire

Penciled by Andrea Sorrentino
Cover by Andrea Sorrentino
Published Aug 10, 2016

   Logan hears Maureen's voice, telling him to wake up..Telling him he's in trouble. Only fair warning - he's not gonna like what he finds when he wakes up. Run through with arrows, he's at the bottom of a well. He withdraws his claws and scales the walls until he reaches the top. When he gets there, he sees a face telling him that while impressive, his efforts are futile. With the draw and firing of an arrow, he sends Logan back to the bottom of the well. Telling him that he's been trying to kill Logan for the last 4 days, he'll keep trying until he finds a way. Logan tells him that isn't likely. He already knows who he is and he's already killed him once.
   A flashback reminds us how Logan got there. During he and Maureen's travels through the wastelands, the couple ended up in Japan and by decree, became property of the Silent Order. Refraining from using his claws, Maureen sees Logan murdered and then unexplainably healed. General Sohei remands them to the Master and on the way, Logan has quite a lot to explain. Back in the present, Sohei asks Logan how he knows who he is - and that the prophecy must be true. Logan asks about Deathstrike and Sohei tells him she's still alive - the perfect bait to draw the Wolverine out of Kilhorn Falls. Logan climbs the walls again, taking arrow after arrow and telling the general that eventually he's going to run out of arrows. Back to the wastelands, Maureen asks why Logan never told her he had powers and he explains he never wanted her to know about that life. The things he did, he can never ever do again. She asks him if her thinks she never had to do things she regretted and the man once known as Wolverine tells her "Not like me you didn't..."
   In the present, Logan pulls himself out to the well but Sohei tells him he'll likely crawl back in there when it's over. Deathstrike, alone and locked in a birdcage tells him it's no use, but Logan tells her that well, we'll just see about that.." He prepares against Sohei but he laughingly tells him that the Wolverine won't just have to fight. To fight him is to fight the entire Silent Order. To kill him, he will have to kill them all and with that, the issue is left to be continued.
   I recently started reading the new Avengers series, which admittingly came out months after this but I see traces of Sorrentino's influence rubbing off. The only problem is that it doesn't come close to matching this. I don't know if it's the artwork in association with the story or whether the art comes off as rushed and crappy but this book may have ruined me. Drawing similarities from the Wolverine and Havok Meltdown series from nearly 30 years ago, nobody can replicate what this book is doing. Amazing and continuing to be, I give it a 10/10 as usual and can't wait for the next one.

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