In the not so distant future, the supervillains of the world decided to pool their resources
and defeat every single superhero by overwhelming them with their sheer numbers.
The world’s government collapsed and its land was divided up amongst the villains with
America’s territories belonging to Dr. Doom, Red Skull, Abomination, and Magneto, but the
Incredible Hulk and a new Kingpin took over those last two respectively.
On the day the world went to hell, Wolverine did something unspeakable.
Mysterio made Wolverine believe that he was fighting a horde of villains, but in reality,
he murdered ALL of the X-Men.
This broke Logan.
And since his suicide attempt did nothing, he vowed to never pop his claws and never
feel rage again.
Fast forward many years later and Logan is an old man.
He’s settled down with a wife, kids, and a farm.
What could possibly go wrong?
Well… his tractor could break down and make him not be able to afford his rent because
that’s what happens.
See, Logan and his family live in what used to be California which is now part of the
Hulk’s territory.
When Banner’s grandchildren find out, they beat Logan the pacifist to a pulp and declare
that if he doesn’t pay double the rent next month, they were going to kill his entire
family.
Without much of a choice, Logan agrees to be the navigator/bodyguard for the now blind
Hawkeye on his journey to deliver a mysterious package to the east coast…
In the freaking Spider-Mobile.
The two go on one hell of a road trip, fighting the Ghost Riders gang, running away from a
T-Rex that’s also infected by the Venom symbiote, inadvertently helping Hawkeye’s
daughter kill the Kingpin. and take over his territory.
You know typical road trip movie stuff.
Eventually, the two make it to their destination and Hawkeye reveals that the package was filled
with vials of the Super Soldier Serum and that he and his clients were going to bring
back the age of superheroes and finally fix their broken world.
Just kidding.
Hawkeye’s friends are actually undercover agents of Red Skull.
There never was a resistance.
Hawkeye was lied to.
Logan ends up fighting the Skull, kills him with Captain America’s shield, hijacks Iron
Man’s armor, steals a case of money, and then flies home.
However, when he arrives, Logan discovers that even though he has the money on time,
the Hulk Gang got bored and by early to murder his family.
Once again, Logan was broken, but THIS time he popped those claws.
He killed EVERY member of Hulk’s family, and he even stole Bruce Banner’s brand new
baby boy to raise as his own as poetic justice.
Now that’s the end of the story, but it’s writer, Mark Millar, wrote a Fantastic Four
story at the same time featuring a group from an alternate future with two noteworthy members.
The son of the Hulk and his “stepfather”, the Hooded Man A.K.A.
Wolverine.
It’s heavily implied that this is Old Man Logan and the baby Hulk that he stole.
However, all of that was thrown out the window because of the recent Secret Wars event.
This is going to be crazy and stupid so please just try to follow along.
After the entire Marvel multiverse was destroyed, chunks of the various universes were pieced
together by Dr. Doom to form one giant planet, Battleworld.
All of North America from the Old Man Logan book makes up a part of Battleworld, around
here.
The Secret Wars tie in picks up right where the Old Man Logan storyline ends off and has
our protagonist wandering the Wastelands, toppling villains, and giving control back
to the people.
That is until the head of an Ultron falls from the sky.
After consulting with a dying Emma Frost, Logan decides to scale the wall that separates
the Wastelands from the rest of Battleworld and ends up in the Domain of Apocalypse where
he’s immediately thrown into battle against its version of Sabretooth who in this area
is a Horseman of Apocalypse.
You with me so far?
Okay, great!
Logan is rescued by this world’s X-Men which allows Sabretooth to track them down with
the other horsemen AND Apocalypse in tow.
Thankfully when the Thor Ti Asha Ra intervienes, Logan takes advantage of this distraction
to get away from EVERYONE, and hunts down the Thor after she and Apocalypse exchange
conversation.
Logan is then somehow teleported to Technopolis, gets in a fight with the Thor War Machine,
loses, and is shipped off to the Deadlands where he fights all the Marvel Zombies.
It’s here that he meets a version of She-Hulk and convinces her to throw him over the the
giant wall that keeps the zombies out.
This somehow lands him all the way in the Kingdom of Manhattan where he runs into ANOTHER
set of X-Men.
Yes, Logan has been five regions of Battleworld for no real rhyme or reason.
The Emma Frost of this group says that Logan will lead the charge against Dr. Doom, but
then he suddenly wakes up in an alleyway of the All-New, All-Different Marvel Universe
because that makes sense.
Okay, so let me explain something real quick.
Marvel is trying to use the Secret Wars event as a way to bring the best parts of their
giant multiverse into one super awesome mainstream Marvel continuity.
This is why we have Miles Morales joining the 616 universe and it’s also why we have
Old Man Logan coming around.
The problem though is that the tie-in story for Secret Wars for Old Man Logan looked like
it was going to be so much better, but was scrapped because they decided “Hey, let’s
make the Secret Wars event go longer and we’ll also launch All-New All-Different while it’s
still going!”
So does Old Man Logan fight Dr. Doom and help destroy Battleworld?
Well we don’t know because the Old Man Logan book is going to come out while Secret Wars
is still running.
Which is complicated...
and stupid.
Also, there were never two Logans in the Old Man Logan storyline!
I think this cover was made before it was changed because it really feels like it was
just shoehorned in like “Hey!
Get him to the new All-New All-Different multiverse!”
… Universe thing.
And that’s why he just wakes up in Manhattan and I’m really sad because it looked like
the storyline was going to be really really good, but this theory of mine does kind of
help explain the inconsistencies of why Logan knows who the Thors are in the first issue,
but then near the end of the series he’s never heard of them even though he clearly
does.
I really wish I could have seen what the Old Man Logan story for Secret Wars WOULD have
been, but we’re never going to and now he’s in All-New All-Different, enjoy.
So there you go, you’re ready for the All-New All-Different Marvel with Old Man Logan #1.
If you want to read more about this geezer for yourself, you’ll want to read the Old
Man Logan storyline from Wolverine issue sixty six to seventy two, but you can also read
it as a self contained graphic novel.
After that, read the five issue Secret War tie in (or not because it’s really not that
good), and then pick up the brand new Old Man Logan issue one.
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