The Comics Canon

Episode 242: Weapon X


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After a brief but worthwhile interruption, All My Xs, our decade-by-decade look at Marvel's X-Men franchise, returns with 1991's Weapon X, written and drawn by Barry Windsor-Smith!

Originally serialized in Marvel Comics Presents #72-84, this Wolverine story largely focuses on three members of the shadowy Weapon X program, which captures a scrappy loner named Logan, gives him an adamantium skeleton and claws, and turns him into a ruthless killing machine.

Will the evil Professor, along with Dr. Cornelius and Carol Hines, suffer any consequences for what they've done? What's the deal with that twist, anyway? And can this popular X-Men-adjacent storyline survive a confrontation with that super-soldier program known as … The Comics Canon?

In This Episode:

· Wait, why does he need an adamantium skeleton, exactly?

· Moss Introduces Jen to the Internet

· Curt casts Weapon X

· Low-Down Road by Scott Von Doviak

· Conan the Barbarian #16, "The Frost Giant's Daughter"

· The Whole Wide World

Join us in two weeks All My Xs – and the X-Men – roll headlong into the 2000s with Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's New X-Men: E Is for Extinction!

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