Logan #3 - Marvel

This was an excellent little series in the Marvel Knights line of books. The best part about the book, actually, was the creative team. Brian K Vaughan wrote it, and Eduardo Risso was the artist. Each of these issues came out in 2 volumes . . the regular, colored, edition and a black and white translation. I'd be hard pressed to pick which one I liked better. Eduardo's artistic style lends itself nicely to the black and white interpretation. He already uses a lot of shadows and heavy lines, so the black & white style fits his work perfectly. That's why I was confused when I bought the black & white copy of issue #1, and then later, about 3 weeks, found out that there was actually another colored copy. Color me . . oh so surprised! Anyways, I was thrilled with the black & white version, but being a completest, I had to get the other. Not so surprisingly, it was quite beautiful also. The colorist for this series, Dean White, did an incredible job. I mean just look at the color on that cover. It's beautiful. Anyways, Logan, after having some of his memories returned, has gone back to Hiroshima, where he fell in love with a Japanese woman named Atsuko. This happened near the end of WWII and he happened upon her when he and Lt. Warren were escaping from a prisoner of war camp. It turns out that Lt. Warren had an intense hatred for the Japanese, which Logan could not abide, and they ended up splitting up. While Logan stayed with Atsuko, and fell in love with her, Lt. Warren war planning on how to make Logan see the error of his ways. Eventually he ends up breaking into their little hut, and kills Atsuko. But not before she delivered a fatal blow to him. That's when Logan discovers that Lt. Warren is also a mutant and he can't be killed. Almost immediately after that, the Americans drop the bomb on Hiroshima. In all the confusion, Logan lost track of Lt. Warren. But, now that he's got his memories back, somehow he just knows that he'll still be in that little village, and that it's time for him to avenge Atsuko's demise. Long story short, they both hurt each other severely, but, in the end Logan ends up cutting off Lt. Warren's head. In the end, he has a fever dream, and sees Atsuko once again. She offers to erase his memories of Hiroshima before he returns, but that also means that he'll forget about her. I don't think that's something he's willing to do. Like I said, this was a fantastic series. It was incredibly written and drawn. I'm sure we'll see it out soon in TPB form. So if you haven't read it . . get it then. You won't regret it.