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Summary: The making of Wolverine!
Review: The Weapon X TPB shows the story of one of Marvel Comics most popular characters, Wolverine. The plot details one of the most integral points in the characters life; when he was used as a human weapon by the orginization Weapon X and how he recieved the adamantium metal bonded to his skeleton. An excellent story and an interesting period of the characters life, its a great read for those not only interested in the character, but comic history as well.
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Summary: Doesn't deliver
Review: There's NO way this story even approaches revealing Wolverine's origin, but on the surface, it seems like Marvel made an attempt, maybe paving the way for other stories to set it up. This whole story probably could have been told in a 32 or 64-page comic, but it was instead drawn out over many issues of Marvel Comics Presents, thereby building anticipation, yet achieving nothing other than a very vague look at Logan's transformation into a killing machine. You get no personal info on Logan, don't get any insights on his personality, etc. It's told from the point of view of the scientists who did the work on his famous skeleton and who use him as a remote-controlled zombie for field tests. That's pretty much all there is here. I personally feel that this story, like so many other chapters in the life of Wolverine, achieves absolutely nothing. The art is beautiful, and that's the only thing that saves this book - also the only reason I hang onto it. Wolverine used to be a fairly straighforward character, even with an unknown past, but his increasing popularity has oddly turned him into even more of an enigma. I guess Marvel feels that an origin would pin him down too much and keep them from concocting more stories of his past which defy reason. Continuity continues to be thrown out the window, more and more chapters are added to his "history" with no thought of the resulting picture. It's to the point now where he's just like an Image Comics character - all flash and design, and no reason or backstory to speak of.
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Summary: X-cellent!
Review: This book was my introduction to Wolverine and BWS. It's compelling images and masterful storytelling really blew me over. It wasn't what one expected of "comics". It was passionate, loud but subtle and mature. I must say that every other Wolvie story i've read pales both art-wise and story-wise compared to this one. In a field where societal and cultural respect and acknowledgement is a forgone conclusion ("comics are just for kids!" etc.) BWS and others like him hammer out the exceptions in the fire of passion for their work and a real desire to create a viable art-form and not "just comics". Try and get all you can by BWS; he is a master of the medium.
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Summary: Excellent and haunting...
Review: This is the graphic novel that tells what happened to Logan when he received his adimantium. Mind games... physical changes... training... everything. The artwork is first rate and the writing is even better than the art work. It is one of the few trade paperbacks that are on the same level as DC's Kingdom Come and Dark Knight Returns
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Summary: An over-hyped story
Review: Weapon X was an extremely dissapointing read. As I was reading it, I kept waiting for something to happen but nothing exciting or engaging ever took place. Before this story was written, Weapon X and the way Wolverine's skeleton had been laced with admantium had remained a mystery. It should have been kept that way. Barry Windsor Smith's take on the origination of Wolvie's indestructable skeleton is bland and it was the type of comic I had to force myself to finish.
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Summary: tieri's new series
Review: [...]this book was more violent than average, but as a result it had a stronger sense of atmosphere. dark and tense. for those who don't know, the basic premise is that the weapon x program (which was behind wolverine's transformation) is being reinstated (although the goals aren't exactly clear from this book). this setup allows for some of the more obscure characters (sauron, mesmero, aurora, marrow, wild child, etc.) to get some attention. the first five issues are written and drawn by diff people. they're one shots setting up the series, but this tpb includes these as well as the first story arc written by frank tieri. i'm not too sure what i think about the series having only read this book, but even just from these early issues i can tell that it's setting up some interesting threads and that it's def. better than the mediocrity of the core titles (morrison's new x-men and claremont's x-treme x-men). i plan on reading the next book in the series.
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