3 out of 5

Again, kudos to Tom Taylor for successfully navigating his way through a crossover event.  While this storyline suffers from the same sort of disconnected feeling as the prior Civil War lead-in issues, it shares the same relative positive: That our main characters emerge wholly intact and recognizable as the same characters we’d dug when the title started, and though specific events may have detoured, the tonal telling of the story was right in sync with the series.

Civil War redux features a mutant who can see the future, thus setting up a Minority Report debate that has people civil warring over whether or not it’s cool to lock suspects up over crimes not yet committed.  For Laura and Gabby, this just so happens to impact the dude temporarily bunking with them – alternate timeline old Logan.  Taylor appropriately plays both sides of the issue by having Laura dutifully stand up for the dude and then he goes all feral, but whichever way it turns out, ’tis a crossover book after all, so all’s well that ends well and Logan exits the title having coincidentally only been around for the Civil War issues…

New artist Ig Guara is a much better match for the more serious actionry than Marcio Takara.  There are elements of a lot of artists in there – the movement is very emotive, reminding me of Adam Kubert, but his character models and acting are finer than that, almost Mahnke-esque in their weight but without the bodybuilder vascularity.  I was especially impressed with a fight scene between Logan and Laura; each character moves with their own (appropriate to their personality) body language, and both are very clearly strong but Logan is built with a blockier, old man body versus Laura’s leaner, tighter frame.  It really shows some great awareness.

Cory Petit is certainly an established name in lettering, but his work felt too “loud” here.  The boldness of the font and height of the letters wad a bit too brash for the art style, making it seem like people were always yelling.

Still, my Tom Taylor love affair aside, these would totally be viable issues in a regular comic series.  They get the scry eye due to the tie-in thing, and, of course, because what came before it was so awesome, can’t wait to ditch the CW banner and be back to it.