Jordan Anderson's Reviews > Wolverine: Old Man Logan Vol. 5: Past Lives

If anything, Old Man Logan reminds me of Marvel Zombies a previous Marvel IP that started amazing and then began to fizzle. While “OML” is nowhere near the fall off that “Zombies” encountered, this series is slowly beginning to lose its edge and everything it had going for it.

Somewhere after Shogun Lemire seems to have lost his spark and is phoning it in, and nowhere is that more clear than Past Lives. While I probably liked this collection a bit more than most other readers seem to, I can’t deny argue that this 5th volume felt weak and lackluster, with Lemire going the simple route of using yet another time manipulation storyline that inevitably goes awry when Logan decides to use Asmodeus as a vessel for returning, once again, to the wastelands. Instead of something fully original, it’s just the titular character revisiting past lives and stories that have already been told.

I guess Lemire tries to put a bit of an original spin on it as none of the jumps are Logan’s fault or intention, but even then, it really feels kind of lazy and a failed “last hurrah” of sorts since Ed Brisson was tapped to take over stating with issue 25. This collection also suffers at the hands of Andrade’s art, which, true to form, is incredibly basic and elementary. No characters have any distinguishing details. I don’t know why it seems so difficult to keep original artists with the original series the whole way through because replacing Sarrentino only managed to make an already weak storyline look even worse with such “meh” artwork.

I hear Brisson’s takeover gets the series back on track so we shall see if things can be salvaged.