Logan: Shadow Society (1996)

Logan: Shadow Society #1 (1996) - written by Howard Mackie and Mark Jason, art by Tomm Coker, Keith Aiken and Octavio Cariello

 

Another one shot about Wolverine before Weapon X (don't worry, that's coming up next). In this one, he teams up with pre-superpowers Carol Danvers to face the Hellfire Club and Sabretooth. It kinda goes nowhere and I think it's due to the problem with prequels where it's already established the characters don't have certain information, and it limits where the prequel story can go.

Honestly, the story is nothing special. The pairing up of Carol and Logan is not bad, but their chemistry is built on a basis of cliches. Logan and Sabretooth have history already, but nothing concrete is mentioned.

This is set before the existence of mutants was public knowledge so we have a professor that believes there's a secret society of mutants running the world and they might not have good intentions. Turns out he's right and the Hellfire club really is planning on forming an army of mutants. Logan thinks it's bullshit, but there's hints the Canadian government does not (more on that next time, probably). He does admit he’s a mutant to Carol, and then tells her to forgot about what happened.

This could have a decent story, even if it's nothing exciting, but the art brings the whole thing down. The action lacks dynamism and Logan's face is just off. He ends up looking like a leprechaun in some panels. It's just not very good.