COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Logan's Run 7 Modern
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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4112890015
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Owner:
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Qalyar
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
This wasn't supposed to be the end.
Logan discovers hints that the basement computer may have been sabotaged, a plot element that was never able to be revisited. But for now, there are more pressing concerns. The Cubs -- the army of feral children we were warned of in issue #6 -- make a largely successful assault on the remains of the City in this issue. Fellow ex-Sandmen Modar-9 and Priest-7 are obviously being worked up into ongoing antagonists as well.
In order to move beyond the film, Warner starts to lean more heavily on elements from the novels here. The novel is very tonally different from the film, and so some of these introductions feel very strange. I wonder how far this might have gone had Warner been given enough time to continue. Would we have eventually visited a space station at Mars? For now, though, we see the youth-only super-drug Muscle, along with a re-introduction of the novel's Guns -- sidearms loaded with a collection of weird bullets that each did something different. To explain their absence from the film, they're presented here as having been retired from use on account of being horribly impractical. Awesome, but impractical. Still, Logan had one stashed away. The book ends on a cliffhanger related to the fate of that Gun. Will Priest turn it against our hero?
We'll never know. The editorial in #6 may have talked about a full-length story being delayed by "contractual negotiations with Hollywood", but they probably should have been delayed longer. As it turns out, Marvel's deal with MGM was only valid for an adaptation of the film itself, not for any continued stories or other elements of Nolan's books. And so, the ongoing story of Logan forever ends here, defeated not by the Cubs, nor traitorous fellow Sandmen, nor the computer's unknown saboteur...
...but by intellectual property lawyers.
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