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So often the Wolverine one-shots are a desperate attempt to continue the never ending information drop of Wolverine’s shady past. How did he become Weapon-X, did he have a relationship with Marilyn Munroe, did he date your mother? Rarely does any writer simply stop, and decide to tell a decent unimportant Wolverine story.

 

Thankfully in this world, we have Brian K. Vaughan.

 

From the start, I’ll tell you, I have a massive fanboy-crush on Brian, and pretty much everything he puts his hands on (except anything to do with Lost). But, it isn’t as if I’m the only one. The man’s a freakin’ genius, and he could tell a story about a rubber ducks desire to be more loved!

 

Within a few pages, Logan opening issue surrenders to every writer’s favorite cliché, the flashback. I won’t begrudge Vaughan this, considering how effortlessly he manages it. Logan – the Canadian soldier in the First Parachute Battalion – finds himself locked up in a Japanese POW cell with an American soldier.

 

Naturally, this is not a state of affairs that lasts for long, and within no time, we’ve got the pair on the outside trudging through snowy landscapes, decked out in  Japanese uniforms that surely wouldn’t fool anyone for the time it would take to ask “Hey, who are you!?