A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE! Blood- and whiskey-soaked tales from the lost episodes across LOGAN's life! In the wake of the first World War, Logan finds himself hip deep in trouble with a bootlegging operation - and maybe a taste for the good stuff - in a revelatory tale by Benjamin Percy and Robert Gill. Logan's days as a secret government operative reveal a startling truth about the Marvel Universe - and an untold mission with Carol Danvers! - by Wolverine stalwart Frank Tieri and Raffaele Ienco. Superstar Mirka Andolfo takes Logan on a job that changes his destiny as man and a mutant!
Benjamin Percy is the author of seven novels -- most recently The Sky Vault (William Morrow) -- three short fiction collections, and a book of essays, Thrill Me, that is widely taught in creative writing classrooms. He writes Wolverine, X-Force, and Ghost Rider for Marvel Comics. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in Esquire (where he is a contributing editor), GQ, Time, Men's Journal, Outside, the Wall Street Journal, Tin House, and the Paris Review. His honors include an NEA fellowship, the Whiting Writer's Award, the Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, the iHeart Radio Award for Best Scripted Podcast, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics.
Logan gets no peace and no reprieve, as this collection follows the ol' canucklehead from war to cargo ships to spy missions; this man never sleeps. Luckily, he does get a small reprieve with some Kentucky Bourbon in Percy & Gill’s “First Kiss,” a fine-enough little tale that is more fluff than I ever expected a wolverine story to be. Andolfo’s “One Last Crossing” is a little grittier, but with some odd pacing choices and some fairly contrived choices. The art itself was manga-esque, but a safer style of it that resembles Avatar and Naruto. Nothing offensive, but nothing worth remembering either. Tieri and Lenco’s “The Children of the Altered Mind” follows with a black-ops throwback that is a bit too in keeping with Andolfo’s pattern. Bloody and 60s-stylized, but not exactly for the better. Overall, this is a subpar entry for the series. Staying constrained in the same time periods and choosing lighter touches rather than harsher bumps. I just want some more carnage with my Wolfy-time, please.