Logan, the movie of James Mangold, has only been on the world billboard for a few days. With her I know close the trilogy dedicated to the most famous and charismatic character of the X-Men in its version more dark, violent and twilight. We reviewed a couple of the different series of Old man logan that have served as the basis for the script, tone and atmosphere of this latest film adaptation.

For the most unconditional and more or less purists of the saga about Wolverine, in their original comics, they will have already made their choice between these and the movies. Obviously the cinema always takes its licenses. In this case, its greatest influence I think is from the series of Millar and McNiven. Or at least it is what it seems to me after seeing the movie, incidentally, is magnificent.

That far I think my childhood readings of the comics for the Patrol x and you are extraordinary graphic stories what is there now. Obviously the readers are different and the genre, so long devoted to that childhood, has long satisfied everyone. And adults, knowledgeable and demanding with their favorite series and characters are always demanding new perspectives, plots and designs.

Old man logan was the answer both for that audience and for many authors. The most antihero of the X-men superhero, the supposedly immortal, the most charismatic, deserved that evolution. To become almost "human" at all. Taking off costumes and fantasy, putting gray hair, wrinkles and pain, that his claws will rust despite their indestructible metal. So it gets old. There are and have been many authors who have reflected it.

Wolverine. Old man logan - De Millar and McNiven (2008-2009)

El English screenwriter Mark Millar and Canadian cartoonist Steve McNiven are responsible for these eight deliveries collected in a complete graphic novel. The story it tells is the one that the script of the last cinematic Logan drinks from. And its aesthetics is also the most similar.

We are in the very near future where supervillains rule USA. The superheroes have disappeared and wolverine has a own family with which he lives apart from the world. And his healing power, with age, is no longer what it was. But one day Hawk Eye He shows up at Logan's farm asking for his help. The two will undertake a road trip full of difficulties and dangers. On that trip we will find out what happened to the X-Men and why Wolverine decided to hide his claws.

The drawing, the colors and the atmosphere, in addition to that trip, have all the touch of western and they distill a brutal violence, something that he shares 100% with the film. It is enough to see the trailers.

Wolverine. Old man logan - De Lemire and Sorrentino (2016)

This series is signed by Canadian screenwriter Jeff Lemire and Italian cartoonist Andrea Sorrentino. And they pick it up where Millar and Mcniven left off, so it's recommended to have read the previous one not to get lost.

Now we are introduced to a Wolverine who awakens before the catastrophe that Millar and Mcniven end up with. Lemire and Sorrentino narrate how Logan must acclimatize to the new world and have a chance to make amends for your biggest failure, to save the world. He does not intend to let her escape no matter how much blood he must spill along the way. And it is a lot.

So they keep showing us a Wolverine very wild and pissed off, which also has many parallels to this latest cinematic Logan. Nevertheless, aesthetically it is of a different style the previous. But both series they maintain the level of that violence without concessions which has also very aptly reflected the film adaptation.

Comics or movie?

Both. The most knowledgeable of these series will undoubtedly have the curiosity for the comparison. It is unavoidable. Although perhaps there are those who do not and deny that they touch their sacred paper references. But if the character maintains its essence, you can enjoy any version that they want to do to him. So do not stay with the desire. The important thing, as always, is to enjoy what you like.