I am a complete sucker for any kind of Days of Future Past style stories because if there's one thing I love more than reading about an elaborate fictional construct like the Marvel universe it's reading about the destruction of all the heroes that populate it. Go figure.... 
 So even though reviews by friends like Brandon and Stephen put this into three star territory I was revved up to try it. Surprise, surprise. Three stars from me, too. 
 The main idea in this is pretty bad ass. The major Marvel super-villains realized they outnumbered the heroes and united in one master surprise strike that killed almost anyone who could oppose them. With the good guys out of the way the bad guys carved up most of America into territories and began making the world completely shitty. 
 Decades later in the remains of California one of the few surviving former heroes Logan (a/k/a Mr. Don't Call Me Wolverine Anymore) scratches out a meager existence on a farm with a wife and a couple of kids, but he's late on the rent to the descendants of the Hulk. Bruce Banner took California away from The Abomination, but one gets the sense that he's firmly in the evil camp these days with his offspring acting like a bunch of redneck bullies. 
 This isn't the old Logan that readers have known because this older, battered man refuses to fight and hasn't popped his claws since the night the heroes died. An old and blind Hawkeye shows up and asks Logan to drive him across the country to make a mysterious delivery. As the two men cross an America where the descendants of both heroes and villains fight for power, we eventually find out the story of what happened to the major players in the Marvel universe as well as why Logan went from bad ass Wolverine to pacifist farmer. 
 I absolutely loved the core concept of this book, and would dearly love to see a story about the last minutes of the super-heroes and the aftermath. I especially enjoyed that this is not a time travel story where the current version of Wolverine gets a glimpse of this dark future. That's how these are usually done, but knowing this isn't some future that can be prevented but rather a story of what did happen (In at least one potential timeline.) makes it a lot more powerful. 
 My problem with this is that it focused only on Wolverine, probably the most overexposed character in the Marvel stable outside of Spider-Man. Yeah, I know it's a Wolverine story, but the idea is so big and has so much potential that it seems like kind of waste to turn it into just another Logan story that you can see the ending come from a mile away. (view spoiler)[Anyone have any real doubt that Logan wouldn't be popping his claws and dealing some damage by the end of this? So despite the elaborate set-up, this became just another story of Wolverine overcoming his tragic past just in time to go berserk and carve up a bunch of people like sushi. (hide spoiler)] 
 And I had another problem with the revelation of what happened to Logan that caused him to swear off gutting people.(view spoiler)[ We learn that during the attack on the super-heroes Mysterio tricked Wolverine into killing all of his fellow X-Men by making him think they were bad guys. 
 Really? Freakin' Mysterio? The B-list villain that Spider-Man routinely beats manages to trick one of the cagiest heroes in the Marvel 'verse into killing all of his closest friends. Oh, and the entire line-up of the X-Men can't stop Wolverine? They have when he's gone nutso before. It's a powerful reveal, but it's kind of hard to believe. Maybe if they would have had multiple illusion masters or telepaths combine forces I could have believed it, but there's no way that I'm buying that Mysterio (a/k/a Captain Fishbowl) engineered the destruction of the X-Men all by himself. (hide spoiler)] 
 Like most of these types of stories, there's some powerful moments by showing us the 'deaths' of heroes and a trophy case filled with their costumes and weapons, but I've seen that before. (The Hulk story Future Imperfect is one example.) So even it's best parts aren't all that original. Fun but flawed is my final impression of it.