i'm with Red Skull getting knocked the fuck out. Wolverine #72 Review.

Hello one and all, I thought i'd kick things off today with a review of the latest issue of Wolverine, #72.

Being the penultimate chapter of "Old Man Logan", I thought I was in for something different to what I got. What we get IS very entertaining, I mean, it's Mark Millar. The guy was born into explosions and people saying cool, slightly mean things in bold.

So what it is is basically a fight between Logan and the Red Skull. There's very little follow-up on Hawkeye's death (which I find a shame), and we see a brief flashback to the day Captain America died. Precisely which Captain America is up for debate, but as he's depicted wearing the costume Bucky's wearing currently, i'm just gonna go with Bucky.

As the flashback ends we see Red Skull in his trophy room with loads of mementos from our fallen heroes. I loved looking at the cabinet and seeing what came from which character - loved the inclusion of Beast's head and shoulders, fur just sliced right off him. Pretty chilling.

The fight is sick, as any McNiven-drawn fight is. The Civil War homage shot was great, although why exactly there's a Civil War homage shot when this title has no relation to that story save for the creators is anyone's guess. I think I just made my guess, as it's probably just because it's Millar and McNiven again and they wanted to hark back to it.

Logan dispatches Red Skull in a very gruesome way, which made me cheer inside. Personally, I love it when heroes kill the villains. You'd think it wouldn't take Red Skull gathering up all the villains, annihilating all the heroes, then ruling over the U.S. for 40 odd years before someone decided it was just better to off him. But hey, killing off villains in an in-continuity title is never really good as it can ruin characterisation of your heroes, and you lose a perfectly good villain (lord knows after 75 years it must be hard to ocme up with new villains) and killing off villains in a (supposedly) out-of-continuity title is what out-of-continuity titles are for.

Then we get to the end, and Logan finds out his family have been killed by the Hulk gang. He pops his claws and declares himself Wolverine, and man McNiven can draw. I did see it coming that Logan's family were gonna get whacked, but I was still shocked when I read it. I guess I just thought "Millar'll probably kill 'em, but how much shit is he gonna make Logan take?" That much, apparently. and now, i'm excited for the Giant-Size Old Man Logan Special Extreme Deluxe.

Solid writing, fantastic art (I would like to have a child with Steve McNiven), the only real problem being the pace. I read it in about 3 minutes flat. Too many big panels with not much happening. If I read all of "Old Man Logan" in one sitting it'd probably be less noticeable, but this isn't good in a single format. Especially if i'm paying $3.99.

7.9 / 10 SNIKTS