Marvel is announcing some of their Civil War II plans this weekend at C2E2. You can see the list of Civil War II tie-ins HERE.
In the ALL-NEW WOLVERINE tie-in, Laura Kinney will come face to face with her father, except this is the Old Man Logan version. Will they choose the same side or will the end up fighting? We asked Tom Taylor some questions about the story and Laura, in general.
COMIC VINE: Will the Civil War II tie in issue feature the first meeting between Laura and Old Man Logan or might it be teased the issue before?
TOM TAYLOR: We will definitely see Old Man Logan in the lead up to Civil War, but how we see him and the circumstances we find him, should come as a bit of a surprise. It's not pretty. He won't be happy.
Will we get to see them interact and react to each other or will there be too much fighting going on?
There will be a lot of fighting on multiple fronts. There's a big problem coming that will have ramifications for Laura, Logan and even Gabby. But we'll absolutely have time for the characters to interact. It's such a strange coming together that we have to explore it and give it a little time. On one hand, you have a man from an alternate future who has lost his family. On the other hand, you have Laura, who has recently lost her father. HER Logan. How she reacts to another Logan, so similar to the man who she lost, but NOT the mentor she lost, could go in very strange directions.
Is this meeting something you've thought about since you first came onto the book?
Yeah. I wasn't expecting to get to it so soon but Civil War threw an idea up, and we just had to run with it. It means this coming together will be a very significant one for both characters.
What's your approach to writing Old Man Logan?
It's all built on what Mark Millar, Bendis, and then Jeff Lemire have been doing with the character. There are some great stories there and there's been a great consistency in the character. At his core, he's Logan, but he's been through even more trauma. He's even angrier and more hurt. Laura and Gabby could offer him something unexpected, something he thought he'd lost... Or things could go very, very wrong.
Marcio Takara is taking over the art. Have you started seeing his pages come in?
Absolutely. He's already finished up on our Squirrel Girl team-up issue and it's one we're all very happy with. It's zany but it's also very personal, and Marcio has delivered on this completely.
There's been some wild action scenes so far in the series. How intense will things get in the Civil War story?
Very. Very intense. We're throwing a lot of raw emotions, and a lot of claws, into a Civil War-shaped powder-keg.
You can see all the action in June's ALL-NEW WOLVERINE #9. Marcio Takara's first issue will be issue #7, on sale April 27.