Down the Road

• Writer - Daniel Way
• Artist - John McCrea
• Colorist - Avalon Studios
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Lettering - Jimmy Betancourt
• Ass't Editor - Warren Simons
• Ass't Editor - John Miesegaes
• Editor - Axel Alonso
• Editor in Chief - Joe Quesada

Summary

  Somewhere out in the rural back woods, Logan is seen getting off his motorcycle at a saloon, the Red Onion, after a long drive. As Logan gets off his motorcycle, he catches a scent which draws his attention, and investigates.

  Later on, Logan enters the bar for a drink. He overhears an old man, drunk, who had been telling his drinking friends a story. Logan follows the man into the restroom. He asks the old man whether he could get a ride with him after hearing his desire to head westward. The old man agrees, and the two board his truck and heads west.

  As the two journey westward, the old man comments to Logan how he was so quiet. Logan said he was never much for words. The old man says him neither, unless he was drinking. He pulls out a bottle of booze and begins to drink it as he was driving. Logan takes a sip of the booze, and nearly chokes on it, exclaiming how strong it was. The old man tells Logan how it was his grandfather's secret whiskey recipe, but then tells Logan, who called his bluff, that he found it in the back woods. The old man laughs, saying how he always loved a good story. Seizing the opportunity, Logan asks the old man why there was a dead body in the back of his truck. The old man tells Logan with a gleam in his eyes that there were actually two bodies in the back. Logan asks him why he had done it and why he had the bodies in the back. The old man responds that they had "done me wrong" back home and that he was driving to blow the flies off of the body. He starts another story with Logan, until Logan points out to the man that they were driving straight into the path of a big rig truck. The old man swerves at the last minute, crashing into a tree. Logan, slightly injured but nothing that his healing factor couldn't heal, takes the key and does the driving.

  Some time later, at a roadside gas station, the old man wakes up in the passenger seat of his truck. Looking in the back, he sees flies buzzing around the bodies. Logan reappears, and the two heads back down the road. As they drive, the old man asks Logan how he had knew about the bodies in the back of his truck. Logan replied that he had smelled it on him, to which the old man said he smelled it too on Logan. Logan says that he noticed one of them had been shot in the back. The old man said he had dshot him when that person had been getting into his own truck. Logan says that they, therefore, must have not been armed, to which the old man confirms. Logan asks him why he had done it. The old man thinks for a minute, then realizes that they didn't do anything wrong, that they were just two hitchhikers he had picked up alongside the road a few days back, and that he didn't know why he had killed them. Logan tosses his toothpick out the window, telling the old man that he knew exactly why. The old man looks down at the empty bottle in his hand, realizing that he probably does know.

  Pretty soon, Logan drives to the end of the road. The old man says that was his plan all along, and told Logan to pull over. Logan gets out, and as he was leaving, the old man asks Logan whether Logan had been looking for him because he had been driving on that road for so long that the police had not even taken the time to look for him, even though he wanted to be caught. Logan's reply was that he was always looking for him. The old man grins, telling Logan it took him long enough, and begins to drive towards the end of the road. But he stops, and tells Logan he couldn't do it. Logan tells him to move over, and begins to drive the car towards the end of the road. The old man apologizes to Logan for dragging him into committing suicide with him. Logan tells the old man that he'll be just fine. The truck careens off the end of the road, over the cliff, and bursts into flames as it hits the ground below.