Warning! Spoilers ahead for Marvel's Dark Ages
While Marvel's Dark Ages miniseries might not be done just yet, it's already proven itself to be a narrative worthy of receiving the Old Man Logan treatment. Old Man Logan may have been similar in its initial execution as a self-contained 8-issue story set in an alternate timeline and future, it's since blossomed into its own universe with spinoff series, one-shots, and even podcasts. As a result, the world of Old Man Logan has been fleshed out on a grand scale since the original story ran in 2003, and the same should be done for the dynamic alternate timeline of Marvel's Dark Ages.
In the dark future of Old Man Logan, supervillains take over the world and kill several heroes in the process. Under the presidency of the Red Skull, the United States becomes a wasteland of territories divided up by powerful villains with the innocent simply trying to survive. Logan was one of these survivors, attempting to keep his head down and provide for his family. However, a road trip with a blind Hawkeye convinced him to become a hero once more, killing the Red Skull and traveling the wasteland to try and make it a better place. That being said, this wasteland future has been expanded upon in the years since it was published in deeper ways beyond what the original Old Man Logan was able to tell with only 8 issues.
Thanks to spinoff series featuring the children of fallen heroes who become the Avengers of the Wasteland and recent one-shots featuring Hawkeye, Doctor Doom, Black Widow, and Old Man Quill (formerly known as Star-Lord), Old Man Logan has been able to grow with new stories to flesh out the Earth in the greater Marvel Multiverse. As such, Tom Taylor and Iban Coello's Dark Ages should follow suit. Featuring a Marvel reality without power or electricity due to a planet-wide EMP, the Avengers assembled the world together to form a better society and utopia with Wakanda as a new world capital. However, threats and dangers still exist in this future timeline, the biggest one being Apocalypse who has laid claim to Europe, recruiting villains and corrupting heroes against their will to join his growing army. As such, several heroes and villains have brand new status quos in this alternate timeline just like in Old Man Logan. In the same way, Dark Ages is very much a story with a wealth of avenues for Marvel to revisit and explore once Dark Ages concludes with its final 6th issue.
An older Spider-Man who has a wife and daughter. Black Panther and Storm married with a child. Iron Man is an alchemist with a steam-powered suit in the absence of electricity. Nightcrawler living his best life as a swashbuckling ship's captain battling Ghost Rider pirates. There are so many exciting and intriguing concepts introduced in Dark Ages that deserve to be explored further beyond what an overarching narrative spanning only 6 issues can achieve. It deserves to be its own Earth in the multiverse just like Old Man Logan is now identified as Earth-807128.
While Dark Ages' creator Tom Taylor recently signed a deal to be an exclusive writer for DC Comics, that shouldn't stop Marvel from bringing in new creators to add to this alternate Marvel Universe just as they've done with Old Man Logan. Likewise, they could also start producing Dark Ages podcasts if they wanted as well, continuing to explore the exciting and engaging new reality where Marvel's heroes have brought the world together despite all the darkness. It would certainly be disappointing if the upcoming Dark Ages #6 was the end for this dynamic new take on the Marvel Universe.