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In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel celebrates the Old Man Logan flavor of Wolverine and Emma Frost. Plus, Groo and Shirley Jackson.

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Wolverine… and the Sea?

The Marvel Old Logan and the Wasteland Sale runs through Monday, 6/23.

Yes, the Old Man Logan storyline has spawned a series of miniseries set in “The Wasteland” setting from the original… and that before they brought back the Old Man Logan character after Wolverine’s “death.”

Wolverine: Old Man Logan by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven is what started the line.
Old Man Logan V.0 : Warzones! by Brian Bendis and Andrea Sorrentino is the Secret Wars / Battleworld version.
Old Man Logan is the ongoing series, initially by Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino.

That’s what the real spread is here with the rest of the sale being side attractions you may or may not be into. The original storyline of a cranky, aged (“Old Man”) version of Wolverine living in a dystopic future came off as a sort of Elseworlds tale and is fairly well regarded as a standalone tale.

It was popular enough that the “Old Man Logan” version of the character was contrived to appear in the present (his past… before the disaster that spawned a dystopia) in the period when Wolverine was supposed to be “dead.” It even lasted 50 issues. We’d say give the Jeff Lemire issues a look if it sounds interesting, particularly the Lemire/Sorrentino issues. This was one of their pre-Image collaborations and it’s much more entertaining than the editorial premise sounds.

Past Logan, there have been a couple other attempts to spin-off new titles in this settings, notably:

Old Man Hawkeye – Ethan Sacks / Marco Checchetto
Old Man Quill – Ethan Sacks / Robert Gill; (i.e. Peter Quill / Star-Lord)

A Touch of Frost

The Marvel Emma Frost Sale runs through Monday, 6/23.

Yeah, there was an Emma Frost series from Karl Bollers / Randy Green, but the emphasis here is a little more on the X-Men.

The Grant Morrison X-Men run (with an artist rotation including Frank Quitely, Igor Kordey, Phil Jimenez and Marc Silvestri) is probably the centerpiece. The “Ultimate Collections” are here. There’s also an that appears to be the first Ultimate Collection with a different trade dress, so it looks like you can mix and match if you like?

While the entirety of Astonishing X-Men is on sale, this title is most remembered for the opening arcs by Joss Wheedon / John Cassaday and you can get their full run a little more cheaply in this set of Double Volumes.

Finally, there’s Generation X, which was sort of Scott Lobdell’s take on New Mutants. Most remember it most for the Lobdell/Chris Bachalo team that opened the series.

Unannounced Sales

As always, we see discounts, but we don’t know how long they’ll last.

Bad Dreams in the Night – Adam Ellis
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations – Mira Jacob
Groo – Sergio Aragonés / Mark Evanier
- Groo: Friends and Foes
- Groo Meets Tarzan – w/ Thomas Yeates
- Groo: Play of the Gods
Let’s Make Ramen!: A Comic Book Cookbook – Hugh Amano / Sarah Becan
Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”: The Authorized Graphic Adaptation – Miles Hyman

Additionally, it looks like most of the Black Widow and Strange Academy material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes. Go back a couple columns for the links to find the Epic Collections.