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X-ual Healing: Old Man Logan #43 – My Name is Joy Jones. You Killed My Husband. Prepare to die.

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OLD MAN LOGAN #43
ED BRISSON (W)
JUAN FERREYRA (A)
Cover by MIKE DEODATO JR.
REQUIEM FOR A SHARPSHOOTER: LOGAN VS. BULLSEYE CONTINUES!
• BULLSEYE's back and he's got a score or twenty to settle.
• But this time, it's personal – and LOGAN won't stop until he sees BULLSEYE laid out on a slab.
• Who is SHADOW TRACER?! And why is she gunning for BOTH LOGAN and BULLSEYE?
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99

The issue starts with Sarah Dewey, author of the Kingpin's autobiography and ally of Old Man Logan from a few issue back, being murdered by Bullseye. The next day, Logan is packing up to leave his motel in the Bronx. He considers leaving his briefcase full of healing-factor restoring Regenix behind, being as it's a dangerous drug that will kill him if he uses it too often, but he decides to take it with him, just in case. As he's about to check out, he learns of Dewey's murder on the TV behind the front desk. Sorry, Logan. The original Wolverine hasn't returned yet, so you've got to stick around for a couple more issues.

Logan heads to the crime scene, Dewey's apartment, and looks for clues, finding a piece of the playing card Bullseye threw from across the street through a window to kill Dewey. Logan is interrupted by Joy Jones, who helpfully provides her backstory though X-pository dialogue. She's a former FBI agent whose husband was killed by Bullseye, which happened in Bullseye: The Columbian Connection TPB, a caption box lets us know. Logan may not go by "Wolverine" anymore, but that doesn't mean he's just gonna team up with some Joy Jones. They agree that Jones will use the codename Vendetta, which is a little on the nose. Of course, the solicit calls her Shadow Tracer, so who the hell knows.

Logan and Vendetta track Bullseye's trail to his contract killing agent and threaten him into providing info on Bullseye. Since Logan beat Bullseye a few issues back, he's been crazier than ever before. He's been killing everyone that's ever crossed him, including some of his own clients. Now it's the agent's turn, as Bullseye kills him with a card as well.

Bullseye motions from across the street for Logan and Vendetta to pick up the phone. They do, and Bullseye taunts Logan, telling Logan it's his fault Sarah Dewey is dead. He also wasn't a fan what she wrote about him in her book. Jeeze, everyone's a critic. Someone get Bullseye a YouTube channel so he has a mildly healthier outlet for his hurt feelings.

Vendetta tries to play chicken with Bullseye, firing her machine gun at him while he tosses a card at her skull, but Logan tackles her before either one can win. Bullseye set a bomb in the office, so Logan and Vendetta have to escape quickly. They run across the street and into the building where Bullseye was attacking from to find he murdered an entire office full of innocent people just to set this trap. And he wrote a message on the wall taunting Logan. We'll have to see how this turns out next issue.

The Bottom Line

Is it too late to cancel Return of Wolverine and just keep Old Man Logan around instead? Please?

Further Reading

The comic references Bullseye: The Columbian Connection, which is actually a trade paperback collection of the 2017 Bullseye series. Luckily, you don't have to track down a copy. Those issues are all available on Marvel Unlimited.

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