Ray's Reviews > Wolverine: Weapon X

I do wish this stayed as the definitive Wolverine origin. Revealing just enough, with still plenty of mystery. He was a government agent, they experimented on him, that was all we needed to know. Why was it necessary to have so many details with Logan’s childhood? Ambiguity worked much better for the character.

What made Weapon X perfect was the Barry Windsor-Smith art. The structure was odd, as it was composed of very short chapters in the Marvel Comics Presents anthology comic at the time. It was such a unique style, about pain and torture and turning a man into an animal. Some of the images remain iconic, worth adapting into film and animation more than once.

It’s also a good self-contained graphic novel. Not bogged down by continuity and tie-ins, just one dark story. Recommended reading for both the completist and novice alike.