Wolverine v Hulk
26 June 2018 – Newcastle
Honestly, why is it that I end up buying all of these comic books that turn out to be rubbish. I know, because I insist on going and checking out every new comic book store that I come across, and end up being disappointed because none of them happen to stock those awesome French/Belgium graphic novels (unless you happen to be in France or Belgium, or at least one of the major cities, such as Brussels, and then again they happen to be in French, and despite the fact that I can sort of read French, my abilities don’t go to the extent of being able to read one of those graphic novels, though I have attempted to read Tintin in German, or Tim and Stuppi as it is known there).
Actually, the other reason was because I was in this particular comic shop and when I saw this comic I remembered that that movie Logan was nothing short of awesome, so I decided to see what Old Man Logan was like. Well, first of all, these things called rights seem to get in the way of some of these comics being renditioned faithfully, in that in the Old Man Logan series they happen to live in a post apocalyptic world in a territory ruled by the hulks. Not the Hulk, as in Bruce Banner, but rather hulks, or what I gathered, his descendants, and also other hulks that have been brought over from alternate dimensions. Oh, and these hulks happen to be bad guys as well.
Anyway, this comic is basically another story set in this world, though Logan happens to have a companion, namely Hawkeye. Yeah, they even comment about how useless his bows and arrows happen to be in this situation, but then again it is the Hulk we happen to be talking about, so I get the impression that pretty much anything and everything is pretty much useless. In fact I’ve even read somewhere that apparently the Hulk is even immune to death. You would have thought that this would be the case with Logan as well, but it turns out (sorry spoiler) that his adamantine skeleton does hinder his ability to be able to regenerate, so while he can regenerate, it is nowhere near as good as it was previously, which is why he has become ‘Old Man Logan’. Oh, and the Hulk is an old man as well, which is quite interesting.
I did quite like the idea of seeing Logan as an old man. It sort of adds something to the character that we generally aren’t used to. One of the things that I have noticed is that none of the superheroes happen to be old. They all end up being at the prime of their life. Well, not quite because Professor X and Magneto happen to be older than the rest, but then again the reboots have changed that a bit so that Professor X and Magneto are younger, but then again those movies were set in the eighties. However, having both Logan and the Hulk as older men does give us the idea that superheros can and do age. Like, Spiderman is always really young, as are the others. Sure, superpowers and all that, but sometimes it would be good to see a bunch of much older superheroes running around doing superhero type stuff.