Logan (never “Wolverine” in the story itself, just “Logan”, 'Mr. But that plot summary is just a Trojan Horse there’s nothing in this story to make you think that Windsor-Smith is at all interested in playing nice within continuity or even cared about some guy who wore a tan-and-black costume that had pointy things all over it. The Uncanny X-Men #205 feels like Claremont teaming up with another master artist (after Cockrum, Byrne, Smith, Miller, Romita Jr.) to refocus and recenter who this character was.įive years later, Windsor-Smith takes a solo shot at the character with a story that promises to tell us how Logan got his adamantium-laced skeleton. As Windsor-Smith’s third X-Men issue in a couple of years (following the two LifeDeath issues that focused on Storm,) Windsor-Smith left an interesting mark on Wolverine as he and Claremont used this issue to define the character in ways that the character’s popularity watered down in other stories.

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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