Wolverine #67
By Mark Millar and Steve McNiven
Published by Marvel Comics
Release Date: 07/30/2008

If you aren’t reading Mark Millar’s current run of Wolverine, you are a damned fool.

It’s not to late to jump on board as the run just began last month with Wolverine #66, often referred to as Old Man Logan. Issue #67 out this Wednesday.

As an unrepentant source book fanatic and amateur scholar of alternate Marvel Timelines, the phrase “In one possible future…” send uncontrollable nerd chills up my spine – and this “possible future” smells an awful lot like The Dark Knight Returns for the Marvel Universe – 50 years after all hero’s have fallen under the boots of the conquering villains who have carved the country up like a turkey. I currently reside in the Kingdom of The Kingpin near Fisk Lake City (formerly the Domain of Magneto)

While the arc is only in it’s second issue ,the setting as well as the setup is building to a boil with perfectly placed hints of things to come – though in this Universe, the mysterious past is as enthralling as the build up to future events as seen in a chilling single paneled flashback rendered perfectly by Steve McNiven, who honest to God has never looked better. These are bad times as a blind Hawkeye recruits a washed up pacifist Logan (don’t call me Wolverine) on a post apocolyptic cross country road trip in a spidermobile to deliver a mysterious package.

No plot spoilers here – just a sterling recommendation that you pick both issues 66 & 67 up next time you’re at the comic book store if you haven’t already. A little Unforgiven, a lot of Mad Max and a smattering of Lebowski – this series can only get better.