Review: Weapon X-Men #1

This does little to connect with anything happening in Krakoa. Instead, it feels like a desperate attempt to capitalize on the upcoming Deadpool & Wolverine movie with a forced injection of Wolverine content.

The narrative itself offers nothing new other than Jane Howlett, a female Wolverine. It’s a predictable Wolverine tale with a team of forgettable mutant grunts thrown together for a plot that also feels thrown together at the last minute. It felt like they took the playbook from Dead X-Men and replaced those mutants with a lineup of different Wolverines, swapped in Onslaught for Moira, and used Jean as their timeline pilot instead of Askani. I don’t care for Dead X-Men and I cared even less for this.

The only saving grace was that artists Yildiray Çinar & Noah Woodard made parts of the book really cool to look at. The action played well and there was a great mixture of different color palettes. Other than that, I don’t have many other positives for this one.

Rating: 5/10