Wolveriner # 173-176, Weapon X # 1-5
Sabretooth is on the loose and has decided - on Mariko's death anniversary - that he's going to tear down Logan's world. Recruiting Omega Red and Lady Deathstrike, they go after Nightcrawler, the Hudsons, Yuiko, and Amiko. Logan - his powers removed by Leech - eventually confronts the trio in Vegas. There, he squares off with all three - until Sabretooth, the captured Amiko, and himself are all teleported to the old Weapon X facility.
There, Logan and Sabretooth have a beat down. Thanks to Weapon X, Sabretooth's powers are removed, but he manages to teleport out of there quickly enough to evade capture. Wolverine kinda dies, meets up with Colossus and denies himself the answers he's sought (he had early learned that his own healing factor was hiding his memories from him). Logan returns to the mansion and is reunited with Amiko.
Afterwards, Weapon X hunts down Sabretooth, who has set himself up as an information broker. He goes after various Mutants, eventually leading to a confrontation with Aruroa and Wild Child. He tears Aruroa apart, tramuatizing Wild Child in the process. Eventually, as deals are being brokered within the program itself, the mysterious Agent Zero takes Creed down and brings him back in. Sabretooth is then reintegrated into the program.
Meanwhile, Weapon X has constructed what is basically a Mutant Concentration Camp called "Neverland." A family of Mutants is brought there and offered to join the Weapon X program. They refuse. The Mutants are then given either a red M or a green M. Ex-X-Man Maggot is there (with Reyes) and he gets a red M. He gives one of his slugs - Eeny or Meany - the children of the family and then is executed. The kids are then smuggled out by a Doctor named Widsor.
Not bad. Overall, the art is decent. The story is actually pretty good, but the dialogue is not so much. There are a lot of cliches catchphrases that have caused these books to not age well. The issues of the "Weapon X" are the superior ones here, as I like seeing the depths of these villians. At this point, having villians as the main characters is nothing new, but it's nice to see it done in the X-Universe.
They're like the anti-X-Men!
I also have the compliment Tieri on the use of "old" X-characters. Kane, Marrow, Maggot, Reyes, Mesmero, and Wild Child all would have been in limbo if not for Tieri coming in and using them in new and interesting ways.
Though I would have liked to have seen some Marrow/Reyes/Maggot interaction . . .
And Maggot's dead. Put that one on the "Dead X-Men List." I wish that the X-Men actually knew he was dead, but I'm sure they found out somehow . . . from Chamber or something . . .
It might be a while before we see "Weapon X" pop up in the X-Periment, simply because of the continunity was during this particular peroid of time. But no worries, true believer . . . they'll be back.
Just like Maggot will be.
Maybe.
~W~
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