In 1986’s The Uncanny X-Men #205 (also included in the recent Wolverine: Weapon X Gallery Edition,) Windsor-Smith already told a classic Wolverine story, teaming with Chris Claremont to tell a defining story about the man, his struggles, and his sense of honor. Windsor-Smith finds a unique angle to the story. Because within these pages Windsor-Smith sneaks in a horror story about mankind’s hubris into what should have been a marketing exercise- the origin of Wolverine, see it here for the first time!!!! Sounds exciting, doesn’t it? Live within this experiment of turning a man- a troubled, drunk, and violent man- into a weapon by people who should know better. Just forget all of that kind of stuff as you live in the space of Windsor-Smith’s masterful cartooning for the length of this story. Calling Weapon X a Wolverine story is a matter of marketing, something to draw the kiddies and the rubes into Barry Windsor-Smith’s 1991 monster story (but not Monsters that’s a different book.) This isn’t a story about mutants or superheroes, and it may not even be exploring good-versus-evil.
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