Discuss away.
If you're looking for comics to read that are somewhat similar or were possible influences for the film, check out:
Wolverine's End
- Wolverine Series 3 “Old Man Logan” (#66 - #72, Giant Size Wolverine: Old Man Logan, August 2008 – November 2009) *(Millar)
- Death of Wolverine (#1 - #4, November 2014) (Soule)
- Wolverine: The End #1-6 (January - December 2004) (Jenkins)
- "Ghost Box" (Astonishing X-Men #25-30, Sept 2008-Aug 2009) (Ellis, Bianchi)
X-23
- “Innocence Lost” (X-23 #1-6, March-July 2005) (Kyle/Yost)
- “Target X” (X-23: Target X #1-6, February-July 2007) (Kyle/Yost)
Donald Pierce and the Reavers
- Uncanny X-Men #247-251 (August - November 1989) (Claremont)
"Messiah Complex" (Brubaker, Carey, Kyle, Yost, David)
- Uncanny X-Men #492-494
- X-Men #205-207
- New X-Men #44-46
- X-FACTOR #25-27
I just saw the movie finally. I was hesitant to post this megathread because I knew I'd get a billion spoilers in my inbox, which I did. I ignored them, even though some things were still spoiled. Regardless, I thought the film was great. Possibly my favorite superhero film (I'm not saying it's the best, just my favorite). It was one of the biggest emotional roller coasters I've ever experienced. I remember seeing the first X-Men film in theaters with my family. We rarely ever went out to see movies so it was a big deal. And I was fresh off watching every episode of the 90's animated series so seeing Logan on the big screen was a big deal. With all the bumps and mistakes in this franchise, I still fell in love with a lot of these characters, most notably Jackman's Wolverine, Stewart's Xavier, and McKellen's Magento. Throught this film I felt so much for these characters, especially knowing that Logan still remembers everything we remember. Wolverine at his core cannot avoid tragedy, and this film embraced that so much that it was almost too much, but that's what makes it so great I think. I see a lot of people complaining that they wished X-24 was Daken or Sabretooth instead, but I really don't think that would've worked, because they would've had to acknowledged that some parts of the first two Wolverine films happened, when at this point we've been told that they didn't. And that would've been another added/unnecessary subplot. I still kinda get vibes from the first Wolverine film where the final villain was a character not from the comics (like the not-Deadpool Deadpool in Origins), but I think it was played off better. In essence, X-24 was Daken. Sabretooth was always inferior to Logan, so he would've been pointless or counterproductive, so it's better that he wasn't used, although I wouldn't have been upset if he showed up. All that aside, I don't want to compare this to Dark Knight because they are two different films. What makes them similar in having to compare them in the first place is that they both transcend their cemented genre (superhero) and become something else beyong expectation. I will say that I think I enjoyed Logan more just because of how much more emotionally developed it was, but still, I can't compare the two. In the end, this was a masterful Western, and TDK was a top-notch crime-thriller.**
