Old Man Logan #26

Written by Ed Brisson

Penciled by Mike Deodato Jr
Cover by Mike Deodato Jr
Published July 5 2017

   Flashback to the Wastelands, a blind and grizzled Hawkeye helps Logan and his kids around the farm. Scotty asks his paw why the pigs keep getting sick and Logan tells his boy that due to the nuclear fallout, the pigs are only as strong as the crops they can grow. Fast forward to today, and an old man with his grandchildren are ordered stopped at a gate. The soldiers tell him to leave and his eyes glow green... 

This kind of stuff always happens in Canada.

   Suddenly scores of hulks pounce, brutally killing the canadian soldiers as soon as they can get their hands on them. Back at their former location, Logan cycles in and smells blood. Dirt tracks and leftover nukes, he's able to tell there's a lot more of them with quite an agenda. That agenda is being laid out by the old grandpaw hulk to his inbred children and grandchildren. They plan on using the weapons they were able to obtain at Department H against the human population.
   Once Logan loses their trail, he calls in a favor. Puck answers aboard the Alpha Flight Space Station - ready to help his former teammate find the trucks with satellite imaging.

Just have a bunch of favors. You know - the usual.

 Meanwhile at that location, Paw Hulk tells his son Buck to get ready for the Wolverine. When he finds him, take him out. He tells him to also take Billy Bob, the inept member of the hulk gang that got so many of them killed in the last issue.
   Logan rides down a dark highway. He hears the sound of incoming artillery but it's too late and the bike explodes. Buck and company run him down and unload high caliber guns mercilessly into the mutant. Buck tells Billy Bob to take a pistol and fire a bullet into Logan's brain. He cautiously walks up to him, but when he pulls the trigger, the gun is empty. The rest of the gang open fire, raking the disgraced member of their family with round after round. He falls dead on top of the bloodied but likely healing Old Man Logan. We're left to wait to see what happens though, as this issue is to be continued.

That's gonna be a whole lotta mad on the ground when they wake up.

   Ed Brisson is turning into just as much the storyteller as his predecessors in this book, and Mike Deodato's art is certaibly capable enough to compliment it. I assumed that before this, there were some plans to somehow youth Logan back up, as it seems like it's been forever without our old Wolverine, but maybe not. Either way, as long as they prove they can keep it going, I'll take it. I give this one a 9/10.

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