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See if this makes any sense: in April readers of Marvel Comics got Wolverine #73, which had nothing to do with the current “Old Man Logan” arc and was mostly a promotional issue for the X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie. But last week Marvel delivered Wolverine #72…

I must ask aloud: was X-Men Origins: Wolverine really worth mucking up the publishing of what many are already calling the greatest comics story ever told about Wolverine?

Probably not. But be of good cheer: Wolverine #72 gets us back on track with “Old Man Logan”.

To recap: it’s been fifty years since “the night the heroes fell” and Wolverine hasn’t popped his claws once since. He has relegated himself to being simply “Logan”: a pacifist farmer scratching out a meager existence alongside his wife and children in the wastes of California. When the now-blind ex-Avenger Hawkeye approaches Logan with ...

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While we’re waiting for the swine flu epidemic to either burn itself out or dispatch most of civilization to “the Choir Invisible”, here’s some encouraging literature to read in the meantime: Marvel Comics’ AMAZING adaptation of the classic Stephen King novel The Stand.

The ongoing series, written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and illustrated by Mike Perkins with oversight by King himself, is scheduled to span thirty issues consisting of five story arcs. The first, “Captain Trips”, just wrapped up and you should be able to find the collected trade paperback version at most well-stocked bookstores. If you’ve ever read the novel, you can probably figure out that “Captain Trips” covers the first several days of the superflu plague that wipes out more than 99% of humanity. The next and current arc, “American Nightmares”, deals with what happens to those lucky (or unfortunate) enough to have survived the pandemic.

As a ...

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