March
28 Review: Logan #1

Creators: Brian K. Vaughan, writer; Eduardo Risso, artist
Marvel, 32 pages, color, $3.99; also available in a 24-page black-and-white edition for $3.99
So? Normally, a new Wolverine miniseries wouldn't elicit much interest from fans — but when it's written by Brian K. Vaughan, creator of "Y: The Last Man" and now writing for "Lost," and drawn by Eduardo Risso of "100 Bullets" fame, it's definitely worth a look. This comic, the first of three issues, was released in both a regular color edition and a black-and-white edition. If you only get one copy, get the black-and-white edition, which in a classy move excludes all the color ads and terrifically shows off Risso's astounding ink work. The story is as good a Wolverine story as Marvel has published in a long time. Set in Japan, Logan returns to the place where "he became a man" and flashes back to being a Japanese POW camp in World War II. His escape brings him into contact with an ethereal Japanese woman (he does have a tendency to fall for that type) and she protects him. This story doesn't reinvent the wheel, but the final page does present a plot twist that is sure to make the next two issues as cool to read and look at as this one is. Grade: A-