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Weapon X: Days of Future Now #1-5
Weapon X: Days of Future Now
Weapon X is back The War of the Programs is over; now, Director Malcolm Colcord is ready to take his plans to the next level It's the Weapon X you love - only now, all bets are off. Witness the beginning of the end of Frank Tieri's Weapon X saga Starring Agent Zero, Fantomex, Sublime, Chamber and of course, Wolverine Collects Weapon X: Days of Future Now #1-5.
120 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
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November 24, 2023
Oh wow. So this is a how many times can you kill off various X-Men or other Marvel Supers while mentioning "Days of Futures Past". There are a few moments when you watch some character die and they are back and fine on the next page and it is not even a cliffhanger between issues. I'm not sure they know how mind control powers work (sigh).
Did I mention? Days of Futures Past.. yet? A sure sign there is a problem if that is your hope that someone would buy this mini-series simply based on a old trope. Maybe they should check out old man Logan for ideas next. ;-)
I see why this was in the discount bin at my local comic shop.
Did I mention? Days of Futures Past.. yet? A sure sign there is a problem if that is your hope that someone would buy this mini-series simply based on a old trope. Maybe they should check out old man Logan for ideas next. ;-)
I see why this was in the discount bin at my local comic shop.
November 13, 2017
Continuing the (not always so) great x-read of 2017…
Ah, is there a writer of the X-books that I loathe their output as much as Frank Tieri? Probably not, but really, this one is not the worst thing that he has ever written. In fact, there is very little in this one that is actively annoying or childish or bigoted or just plain stupid. Which makes it a pretty big leap over the other Weapon X and Wolverine volumes that I have read of his.
Overall, it is an overly convoluted story that assumes the reader has taken in all of the Weapon X stories so far and has at least a passing knowledge of X-men touchstones like Days of Future Past. Problem being, this one just isn’t written nearly as well as those touchstones of x-history are. There are odd jumps, a lot of weird logical leaps, a lot of characters that I just can’t find it within myself to care about…
Your mileage may vary, obviously. And I have a bit of a bias (to say the least) against Tieri’s writing, so your mileage may greatly vary if you are a fan.
Me, I won’t shed a tear that this series is apparently over. It certainly hasn’t been one of the highlights of Wolverine’s long career in my opinion.
Ah, is there a writer of the X-books that I loathe their output as much as Frank Tieri? Probably not, but really, this one is not the worst thing that he has ever written. In fact, there is very little in this one that is actively annoying or childish or bigoted or just plain stupid. Which makes it a pretty big leap over the other Weapon X and Wolverine volumes that I have read of his.
Overall, it is an overly convoluted story that assumes the reader has taken in all of the Weapon X stories so far and has at least a passing knowledge of X-men touchstones like Days of Future Past. Problem being, this one just isn’t written nearly as well as those touchstones of x-history are. There are odd jumps, a lot of weird logical leaps, a lot of characters that I just can’t find it within myself to care about…
Your mileage may vary, obviously. And I have a bit of a bias (to say the least) against Tieri’s writing, so your mileage may greatly vary if you are a fan.
Me, I won’t shed a tear that this series is apparently over. It certainly hasn’t been one of the highlights of Wolverine’s long career in my opinion.
April 10, 2021
Despite the fact that I didn’t know half the characters in this book, I really enjoyed it! What I think happens is that Wolverine is trying to stop a future where literally ALL the mutants die. I thought that the story was great, I was totally interested the whole time, and I never got bored. It was a tiny bit hard to follow, but I got the basic gist of it. The one thing that I really didn’t like was the art, because Wolverine looks super weird (plus bald Angel was weirding me out, but that’s just because I’ve been reading ANXM), so that’s why it’s only 4 stars. But I thought it was a really good Wolverine story!
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June 30, 2018
An interesting alt-universe take.
July 21, 2025
Updated Review From 2025 Reread:
If you ever walk into a comic book store and wrinkle your nose because it smells like a sewage treatment facility exploded nearby, don't worry, it just means that somewhere on the store's shelves is this steaming peice of paperback garbage.
Tieri tries to hide his weakness as a writer and his lack of clever ideas by using a lot of time jumping, thus making it impenetrable in several different ways.
This isn't the worst X-book he's written, but that's a Very Low Bar. There is absolutely no reason anyone should ever waste their time reading this.
***
Original 2018 Review: A convoluted story about an alternate timeline that's better left unexplored. Tieri has to spend so much time explaining what happened to get the world into the place where these events take place that the actual events seem like an exhausting afterthought.
The art is inconsistent but much stronger than the story.
If you ever walk into a comic book store and wrinkle your nose because it smells like a sewage treatment facility exploded nearby, don't worry, it just means that somewhere on the store's shelves is this steaming peice of paperback garbage.
Tieri tries to hide his weakness as a writer and his lack of clever ideas by using a lot of time jumping, thus making it impenetrable in several different ways.
This isn't the worst X-book he's written, but that's a Very Low Bar. There is absolutely no reason anyone should ever waste their time reading this.
***
Original 2018 Review: A convoluted story about an alternate timeline that's better left unexplored. Tieri has to spend so much time explaining what happened to get the world into the place where these events take place that the actual events seem like an exhausting afterthought.
The art is inconsistent but much stronger than the story.
August 2, 2011
Providing closure for the Weapon X series, this adventure takes us through the Director's decades of trying to eliminate Wolverine, and where it will ultimately lead. A good coda to unfinished business.
April 4, 2017
Recommended to me by a friend, and sadly, I don't feel like I can review this fairly. While the book itself is solid X-Men stuff and good art abounds, it's very much a coda in the Weapon X saga. A wrap up to a VERY long, VERY involved story arc... of which I have no knowledge or information. I come to the Xverse from the 90s cartoon, the movies and a handful of TPB stories like Age of Apocalypse and God Loves, Man Kills. I just don't have a frame of reference to go on with this story. I'm sure some of the events (and deaths) are meant to be epic OMG moments, but I wasn't there for all the set up, so they were left empty.
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