Marvel Comics

Old Man Logan is Mark Millar and Steve McNiven's definitive post-apocalyptic Wolverine story — set fifty years in a future where the villains won, the heroes are dead, and an elderly Logan who has refused to unsheathe his claws since the night he was tricked into killing the X-Men lives as a broken man on a continent carved up between Hulk Gang territory and Red Skull's new America. The story uses the western genre's elegiac mode — the reluctant gunfighter dragged back into violence one last time — to tell the most emotionally resonant Wolverine story since the original Miller miniseries.

Mark Millar's Wolverine run is built around two back-to-back storylines — Enemy of the State and Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. — that function as a single complete narrative: Wolverine is captured, brainwashed by HYDRA and the Hand, used as a weapon against every Marvel hero he knows, then deprogrammed and turned loose to hunt down everyone responsible. The premise is engineered for maximum action spectacle and John Romita Jr. delivers one of the defining artistic performances of his career — the two-year run moved faster and hit harder than anything Wolverine-related published in years.