Wolverine #56 - Marvel

This was a nice little one shot. It was written by Jason Aaron and drawn by the incredible Howard Chaykin. Basically, this Romulus person has decided to make Logan suffer. This is the extent he's gone to, he's gotten a building and obviously set it up with a fake business. From there he set up a military type installation in the basement. He's got hired hands and guards. I'm sure he has all the high-tech security that goes along with that. Then he went out and hired some killers. Actually, that may be, but the main character of this story is an ex-cop. He has them working in shifts. There's a counter on the wall. I assume it's timing the healing factor of Logan's. When it gets to zero, he's probably in the danger range, as far as recuperating to much and being able to fight back. So, before the clock gets to zero, whomever's shift is is, takes the high caliber gun and shoots a butt load of bullets into Logan who's in the bottom of this pit, in the basement. And this has been going on for weeks. If not months. But, as I said, the main character of this story is Wendell, an ex-cop. After weeks of this repetitive action, Logan starts talking to Wendell. He starts to psychoanalyze him. Eventually he gets to the heart of the matter, his childhood. He gets him so do and so depressed that he wants to die. But he know that only person that will do that is the man in the pit. So the next day he goes in . . . he just doesn't fire any bullets. Logan gets out, but rather than kill him, he just shoves him into the pit himself. The whole time during the story, there's this secretary that keeps running around with a Polaroid. She keeps snapping off pictures. We assume it's morbid curiosity. But in the epilogue, we find out that it's WildChild who's making a collection of Logan's suffering. "Too bad we couldn't keep it going for a couple more weeks. We might've been able to cover the whole wall. Still, if you ask me . . . it ain't a bad start." So obviously, this is the direction we're going to be heading in this book for a while. And next issue we start a new story-arc. It's by Marc Guggenheim and Howard Chaykin, and we're going to have covers by Arthur Suydam. Fan-frikken-tastic!