Written by Jeff Lemire
Penciled by Filipe Andrade
Cover by Andrea Sorrentino
Published Mar 29, 2017
Cover by Andrea Sorrentino
Published Mar 29, 2017
After fighting to the bottom of the Raft, Logan finds what he was looking for. The time traveling criminal Asmodeus. Studying up on him and learning about his run ins with the Avengers, he offers him freedom from prison in exchange for sending him back in time. Logan produces a bag of artifacts from which Asmodeus procures his powers. Pilfered from Dr Strange, Logan cleverly snuck around the sanctum until he found what he was looking for.
With his distraction running it's course, he tells Asmodeus that time is of the essence. Spider-Man draws closer to them with a SHIELD guard in tow, and right before encountering them, the criminal and the mutant vanish. Materializing in a low rent storage locker in New Jersey, Logan pops the lock off and just making sure the spell is temporary, Asmodeus begins. As long as Logan wears the amulet he gave him, the spell will only last 4 days. Then his consciousness will return to his body - a tidbit of info that Logan isn't too keen on. Regardless, these are the terms. Asmodeus cuts Logan's hand for the blood needed for the spell. He drinks it and quiets the mind... With that, he sees all of Logan's past, freeing his consciousnesses and leaving his body at the storage unit. There a sinister looking Asmodeus brandishes a knife.
When Logan awakes, he's in the snow with blood on his hands. Unaware of which part of the Wastelands the villain sent him to, he begins to walk down a trail of blood when he reaches the end of it. A heap of dead soldiers lie in the snow when a rifle is lowered at his head. Telling him to freeze, the mounted general tells his brigade that Canada's best assassin is now their prisoner. Old Man Logan is smack dab in the middle of the war of 1812 and with that, we're left to be continued...
While I'm disappointed that the only Sorrentino art we get now in this book is the covers, the story work is still pretty solid. We've been being teased with the "Past Lives" storyline forever now and it looks like we're on the cusp of finally getting into it. What Logan is supposed to find out is a mystery we'd all like to know. With this issue acting as a setup, I still have continued hopes they can sharpen up the pencil work a little bit more. But overall I still give it an 8/10.
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