Wolverine: Old Man Logan

Wolverine: Old Man Logan is an American Superhero comic book series written by Mark Millar and illustrated by Steve McNiven. Set in an alternate history timeline where the X-Men and Avengers have failed, the series follows a long retired and deeply traumatized Wolverine who's desperate attempts to live a normal life with his wife and children are upended by the arrival of Hawkeye with a proposition to deliver dangerous materials across the ruined United States for a large sum of money before the Hulk Gang come back.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The series completely revamped Wolverine as a character, making him go from a cocky roguelike to a realistic, vulnerable, even somewhat pacifistic but also brutal, new character instead.
 * 2) A very interesting premise that's never been fully explored before, while Days of Future Past may have also explored the possibility of every Marvel character being defeated, it wasn't really the entire premise of the story. With this one, we get a very bleak look at a possible future where the heroes have well and truly failed and evil has won in a way, but there are still some willing to risk it all against them.
 * 3) Magnificent artwork throughout, with a downright insane amount of detail put into all the panels.
 * 4) It also introduces a plot where some beloved heroes have turned bad, case in point Hulk, who's been more or less driven completely insane and downright villainous.
 * 5) Lots of lore in the world, like how Thor's hammer, despite the hero's defeat, is now a marker for hope to the masses and how the United States have been split between several villains, like Hulk controlling the West coast, Kingpin controlling the center, Red Skull controlling the East Coast, and so on.
 * 6) It does a fantastic job selling Wolverine's trauma and new, weakened state as a result fifty years later, how he no longer uses his claws out of fear and how he still has great regenerative power, but much weaker than before, in turn making him that much weaker both physically and emotionally.
 * 7) Many likeable characters throughout, like Hawkeye, who's been blinded but still able to drive the Spidermobile perfectly and adds a lot of comic relief, as well as Wolverine's family who feel very much like real people despite the fact that their father used to be a superhero. The Hulk Gang are also pretty disturbing people who are an incestuous generation that rules Wolverine's town through fear and violence, especially towards Wolverine as he won't fight back and will regenerate every time.
 * 8) Lots of fun and also disturbingly violent action scenes throughout, which fit the tone of the bleak new setting that Millar has made.
 * 9) Great usage of fanservice throughout, with Daredevil and The Punisher appearing and still fighting evil, the aforementioned usage of Thor's hammer, and Red Skull not only donning the ripped up Captain America costume, but also having his shield and many other souvenirs of his defeat of the hero.
 * 10) Plenty of great moments and twists throughout, like where Hawkeye's daughter, who previously wanted to be Spider-Girl, holds none of Spiderman's morals, kills her enemies, names herself Spider-Bitch, and rules with an iron fist.
 * 11) A mind-blowing and utterly tragic plot twist where even a goofy villain like Mysterio is made absolutely terrifying. It's revealed that when the heroes were losing, Wolverine saw all his friends being attacked and killed and desperately fought and killed them to try and protect his friends, only for it to be revealed that that was all a hallucination Mysterio cast on him, and he in fact killed all the X-men unknowingly. This twist was absolutely horrifying and heartbreaking and does a perfect job establishing the new Logan as someone completely broken beyond repair.
 * 12) Lots of satisfying villain deaths despite all the hero deaths, like Spider-Bitch killing Kingpin and Logan surviving Red Skull's assassination attempt and decapitating Red Skull with the good Captain's shield in a vicious and pretty iconic moment.
 * 13) An insane conclusion to the story where Logan seeks bloody vengeance on the Hulk Gang, finally popping his claws (after almost being tempted to do so earlier by a heckler) and basically spends the last while of the story brutally ripping them to pieces before fighting the Hulk, getting beaten up in his human form and eaten alive in his Hulk form, before he literally bursts out of him.
 * 14) A shockingly bittersweet moment at the very end, where as Logan rides away from his town, it's revealed that he didn't kill the newest baby of the Hulk Gang and instead chose to adopt him and raise him right to make a new hero instead.
 * 15) The series, while pretty loosely, inspired the excellent film Logan, which was Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart's last performances in the series, offered a whole new conclusion, and is the only superhero movie to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Screenplay.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Daredevil and The Punisher are literally just there to die, which completely contradicts their characters as they were much more competent than that, and their deaths are pretty unnecessarily gruesome and gratuitous.
 * 2) The ending is intentionally left open-ended, which isn't inherently a bad thing as there was plenty of story that couldn't be resolved in such a short time, but it might be a little frustrating.