Weapons of Mutant Destruction

Weapon X (2017) (Collected Editions)

by Greg Pak, Greg Land (Illustrator), Stonehouse (Cover Art)

Collects Weapons of Mutant Destruction: Alpha #1, Weapon X (2017) #5-6, Totally Awesome Hulk #20-22.

The worlds of Weapon X and the Totally Awesome Hulk collide - and the results will be explosive! The mutant-hunting Weapon X Program and its new director are out to end Homo superior once and for all with their army of cyborg killers - and they've put a target on the back of Amadeus Cho as well! To save his gamma-infused hide, the Hulk must ally with Old Man Logan, Sabretooth and more - but, in the company of killers, what will he become? Find out in an incendiary epic that could only be called Weapons of Mutant Destruction!

Genres: Comics, Marvel, X Men, Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book

142 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 25, 2017

About the author

Greg Pak is an award-winning Korean American comic book writer and filmmaker currently writing "Lawful" for BOOM and "Sam Wilson: Captain America" (with Evan Narcisse) for Marvel. Pak wrote the "Princess Who Saved Herself" children's book and the “Code Monkey Save World” graphic novel based on the songs of Jonathan Coulton and co-wrote (with Fred Van Lente) the acclaimed “Make Comics Like the Pros” how-to book. Pak's other work includes "Planet Hulk," "Darth Vader," "Mech Cadet Yu," "Ronin Island," "Action Comics," and "Magneto Testament."

Reviews

[Baba · Rating 3 out of 5]

Weapon X have the capability to build Adamtium cyborgs and have the DNA of everyone in the team including the Awesome Hulk! So Awesome, Old Man etc. have to go after Weapon X. The word 'Hulkverine' is used twice in this book. Creed lurks on Twitter. The Awesome Hulk is very much against killing is the glaring obvious sub-plot of this drama. Overall an OK read but with little mutant destruction, it scrapes a high 6 out of 12, Three Stars.

2019 read

[Jeff · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think Old Man Wolverine and Bambi both smell something that’s not quite right.



Correct again, Bub and how did Bambi end up as a name reserved for strippers? What’s with that?



Ugh! Combo in candy-assed Amadeus Hulk, random (but, you know, not really) assortment of mutants…



(“If you snikt me, do I not bleedeth”)

…life-sized killer sentinels…



…and somehow resurrect this long-dead mutant hatin’, sentinel creatin’ dude…



…and you have yourself a hot, headache inducing mess.

Bottom Line: Considering that the outcome of this cross over event was the Weapon X Super Friends book and that bastard child Hulk/Wolverine mush-up dude, I think I’d only recommend this for senior citizens who wish that having a mutant healing factor would enable them to drink liquids after 6 PM, just like Old Man Logan (geezers are people too, kids) and those misbegotten Hulk fans who think their lives are incomplete without a Gray/Grey Hulk/Wolverine combo character running around in the Marvel universe.

Two and a half indifferent stars rounded down.

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun in a Summer blockbuster movie kind of way but, like said movies often are, ultimately unsatisfying. I enjoyed it while I was 'eating' it but I have a feeling I'll be hungry again in half an hour.

The artwork was of variable quality but mostly pretty good and I have a feeling there will be ramifications from this crossover in both books (this was a Hulk/Weapon X crossover... I probably should've mentioned that earlier). Also, there was a lot of pizza in this book.

Now I want pizza, damnit.

[Chad · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well, now I know where the term Hulkverine came from. (Marvel actually released Hulkverines as a comic this week by sheer coincidence.) This was a crossover between Weapon X and Totally Awesome Hulk. Strangely enough an evil corporation creating killer cyborgs seemed to be the main character. This wasn't bad but could have been wrapped up in half the number of issues. Weapon X and Amadeus Cho just kind of futzed around until the last issue where they finally found the evil corporate lair.

[Subham · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was surprisingly good!

SO Hulk and members of WX team up to find the cyborg assassins who took their blood and they suspecting something fishy and in the process they find some strange friends with ulterior motives and discover how fundamentalist bigots maybe recruiting young men in order to transform them into mutant hunting weaopns and they search for such volunteers but this leads them into fight with the forces of Stryker and his people and the inner conflicts in the team and Hulk not liking what these WX members do like the line they cross and the conflict it leads to plus the epic conclusion to the whole thing and the birth of a new Hulkverine!

So yeah a volume filled with pure fun and frolic and its got some nice concepts and flows really well and does well to highlight different opposing members and all, and shows some nice fights. Plus I ike the way they show Amadeus and his moral lines and also the monster side he has been trying to supress and how it leads into PH2 again and all. Plus the art gets so much better and I love the banter and the action-supporting writing really well. PAK really shines in these moments and does well to show a new concept and establishes a new character quite well.

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 2 out of 5]

[Read as single issues]
Considering the first four issues of this series and some of Totally Awesome Hulk has built up to this crossover, I was very disappointed. This falls prey to the Marvel problem of a crossover that doesn't have enough story to fill its six issues, and considering it's all written by the same writer, I'm totally lost as to why this happened.

Weapon X and Amadeus Cho team up to find Reverend Stryker and his new pet project - crossbreeding Hulks and Wolverines (because it's the 90s all of a sudden). There's an attempt to try and humanize some of the test subjects and the doctors involved, but since they're all disposable characters, it's hard to care. There's also a moral debate between Amadeus and the team about murder, which again falls to the wayside near the end of the story. It's a mess, really.

The art is a little stronger, but there are a lot of artists on this one. Robert Gill, Ibraim Roberson, Mahmud Asrar, and Marc Borstel all get in on the act, with Gill taking the Hulk issues, Asrar the one-shot to set things up, and Roberson and Borstel tag-teaming the Weapon X issues. They're all decent, Asrar easily being the stand-out, but even their visuals can't save this hodge-podge of a storyline.

[Robert · Rating 3 out of 5]

This ended stronger than it began, generally, and I liked Pak's through-line of the banality of evil as portrayed through a corporate-sponsored gated community in Texas.

It felt like most of the "Weapon X" mutants were just hanging around without all that much important to do, though.

[Frédéric · Rating 4 out of 5]

3,5*
Being a downright pessimist has its advantages. You only get good surprises. That's the case with WMD. I didn't expect a total mess but it fares much better than that.

The Weapon X pack and Amadeus Cho are on the trail of good ol' Reverend Stryker who wants to eradicate all mutants with the cyber-monstrosities seen in WX last volume. With the help of a totally psychopathic female doctor, he seems to be near his goal with an ultimate killing machine.

Greg Pak, not on a never-seen-before basis, manages a very decent plot with extreme violence, thrills, humor-some good dialogues here-and even some frankly creepy moments-the  issue with the mouse!

It's pure entertainment with OTT fights, chilling lab sequences, good pacing and well used (stereotyped) characters.

The -1/2* is because of the art: If Mahmud Asrar delivers some very good stuff in the introductory issue, Robert Gill is ok without being amazing on Hulk and Marc Borstel is none of that on Weapon X.

[zara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Had fun while reading it but the ending left me unsatisfied.

[Silas · Rating 4 out of 5]

I haven't really been following either Weapon X or Totally Awesome Hulk, but figured I knew enough to get by. I pretty much did. I don't know how they got together, since that wasn't covered here, but just accepting that they did worked fine. The story is relatively fast-paced and interesting. I enjoyed it quite a bit, though it was marred by some serious screw-ups with the art, notably some ridiculously huge Hulk hands in comparison to his head, and some terrible-looking Sabretooth claws, but the story moves quickly, and has both internal and external threats, along with some pretty despicable villains. It has me a bit more interested in reading the two books (particularly Weapon X), and was an interesting story on its own.

[Adam Spanos · Rating 3 out of 5]

The "Weapons of Mutant Destruction" crossover suffers from the same problem that has plagued the new Weapon X comic from the start. The character dynamics are strong, but the conflict itself is very bland and unremarkable.
I can't bring myself to care about the umpteenth return of Weapon X/Department H or that of its new mastermind, Reverend Stryker. Like too many X-books, it seems we're stuck revisiting the greatest hits for the duration of the ResurrXion relaunch.

After all the time wasted on Bobby's characterization, the new Weapon H turns out to be a complete stranger who is artistically and thematically underwhelming.

Overall, a mediocre story with an unsatisfying finale...

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Other than Marvel's tendency to excessively waste time and ink introducing and articulating characters over and over and over again, the story is a good one. It's not the most original comic tale(Weapon's X stories are by definition a rehash of older plots) and in fact it's not even the most original tale, period (A prominent sci-fi film is ripped off mercilessly), but the parts are used well so the theft can be overlooked if not forgiven.

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a follow up to Weapon X vol 1. This is a team of good guys and not so good guys, working together to stop the end of mutants. The Hulk was introduced to the group towards the end of the last story, and is all through this story. The graphics are wonderful and the story is easy to follow. I find myself cracking up reading Sabertooth and Logan. I find I really like these characters. I am looking forward to a continuation of the story.

[Liz (Quirky Cat) · Rating 4 out of 5]

3 1/2 Stars

I read Weapons of Mutant Destruction as single issues through Marvel Unlimited.

Weapons of Mutant Destruction is another one of those volumes that collects issues from multiple events and plots. In this case it pulls from one event, and two series. For those of us that aren’t reading it in true volume form (like say if you were reading it on Marvel Unlimited) the reading order goes like this: Weapons of Mutant Destruction Alpha 1, Totally Awesome Hulk 20, Weapon X 5, Totally Awesome Hulk 21, Weapon X 6, and finally Totally Awesome Hulk 22.
Also, there are a good number of heroes mixing in together here that you’d probably never expect to see working together. Most of them are mutants, which makes sense given the plot. Included in this team-up we have Wolverine, Totally Awesome Hulk (the one non-mutant of the ‘team’), Lady Deathstrike, Sabretooth, Warpath, and Domino.



If you have any idea what Weapon X is about, then you’ve probably got a good idea of what is going to happen in this volume. Still, the team-up alone and its dynamics would probably make it worth reading as well. With this many characters involved odds are that there’s at least one character you care about showing up, right?
If you don’t know the Weapon X plot, there are a few basics you should know. The Church of human Potential has been actively working on ways to kill all the mutants. They don’t much care if they’re innocent, children, elders, or any of that. They basically see all mutants as being subhuman, and therefore worthy of extinction. It’s some pretty sick stuff, to say the least. Anyway, they apparently don’t have any problems with taking in humans (volunteers, supposedly) and adding mutant DNA and doing other modifications to turn them into weapons. Apparently that’s acceptable, since it’s for the greater good or some such BS. Like I said, it’s pretty messed up.
So my first impression when reading the Weapons of Mutant Destruction issue was…why on earth is a secure facility like the Weapon X program allowing the pizza boy inside? I don’t know about most places, but I work in a facility that’s secure (but not nearly as much as this place, obviously) and we don’t let pizza guys past the front door. Somebody at the door will sign for the food and deliver it internally. Or the person ordering would meet the pizza guy outside. The idea of this pizza guy making it all the way to the most secure parts of the lab…it makes my skin crawl. Also, there is no tip worth going through that hell. Sorry, but it’s true.
Once Hulk gets attacked by these very fanatics (with poor security, if I may say so) it doesn’t take long for him to track down the team already working on handling the problem. You can probably guess who that is. While they’re all more than willing to kill everyone behind this, Cho puts his foot down firmly on the subject. It leads to a whole lot of conflict. I honestly don’t ever see their relationship being repaired after everything is said and done. The truth of the matter is these teams work very differently, and it was foolish to expect otherwise. It reminds me of all the team-ups Batman has done, and how he always expects everybody to follow his orders and rules, even though that wouldn’t work against people who don’t recognize his authority.
I’ll confess that I really wanted to like this plot. I thought the combination of characters here would be really interesting, and therefore I was looking forward to it. Still, there were times where I found it lackluster. It had potential – the labs and experiments were super creepy, and the Bobby plot was gut wrenching. I think the problem is I just don’t have respect for any crossover mutant combinations. I mean, a Hulk/Wolverine mutant? Uck. Talk about overpowered. When they put too much effort into something like that it’s hard to respect it. On the bright side it was interesting seeing the different failures for said attempts, if just a little bit gross.


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[Guilherme Smee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bom, dizem que a curiosidade matou o gato. Comprei essa HQ porque sou curioso e também porque sou uma fã "xiita" dos X-Men, então precisava saber que salada de batatas estavam fazendo quando resolveram mesclar elementos do Hulk e do Wolverine num mesmo novo perosnagem. E sabe, até que esse gatinho não morreu de curiosidade, nem queimou seu rabo (ui!), nem subiu no telhado. Até que esse encadernado, comparado com o primeiro que li dessa nova fase do Arma X, é bastante, hum... como direi... curioso, hehe. Mas o que reparei é que os personagens, tanto os integrantes do novo Arma X, quando o Hulk Amadeus Cho são bem trabalhados, definindo seus pensamentos e contrastes e o que faz cada um ser o que é. Algo que tem faltado de forma assustadora nos quadrinhos de super-heróis. Os desenhos do brasileiro Roberson, de Gill e Borstelmann são competentes e deixam a história mais deglutível para o leitor que já vinha de nariz torto com o primeiro encadernado. No próximo encadernado, os mutantes (sem a ajuda do Hulk) terão de se virar com a nova Arma H e tentar detê-la antes que cause mais destruição em seu caminho.

[Tesutamento · Rating 3 out of 5]

Weapon X(2017) serisinin Totally Awesome Hulk ile crossover'ı olan bu cilt iki seriyi de takip etmeyenlerin de okuyabileceği bir hikaye sunuyor. Aslen Weapon X serisinin devamı niteliğinde olan bu hikayede ilk ciltteki adamantiumdan yapılma robotlara bu kez de gamma radyasyonlu DNA ilave ediliyor. Hulkverine diye de tabir edilen bu yıkım makinesi sanki ergen bir çocuğun aklından çıkma gibi. "Hulk'ın durdurulamaz gücü ile Wolverine'in kırılmazlığı birleşse süper olurdu" gibi bir fikir bence biraz fazla basit.

Neyse ki Weapon X serisi hikaye anlamında oldukça sığ ve basit bir seri de bu Hulkverine fikri hiç sırıtmıyor. Bol dövüş, lineer bir hikaye desem bu seriyi anlatmaya yeter. Biraz zaman geçireyim, aksiyonu bol olsun, kafamı da çok yormayayım denilince okunacak bir serinin ikinci kitabı.

[Rick · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've got to admit that I'm not a big fan of some of the characters in this book. Domino, Lady Deathstrike and Sabretooth have been over-killed in my opinion and Wolverine, sorry Old Man Logan, is pretty much the same. Still there was Amadeus Cho as the Totally Awesome Hulk which was fun. Pak did some good work illustrating the differences of opinion and the philosophical approaches and motivations were well handled. Nice art as well (although there was a weird shift from nighttime to daytime between two chapters that was completely bizarre). This was a fun read.

[Earl · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good job merging Hulk and the old Project X at once, but I didn't find the story too compelling. It's just another Deadpool case.

[Beelzefuzz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good ideas. Overly padded out and no great resolution to speak of. I guess it was a set up to get me into the Weapon X book by way of Hulk? Didn't work.

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 4 out of 5]

V1 of the new Weapon X had good characters, but was dragged down by a dully repetitive plot and a non-ending. As the missing half of that story, WMD gets a chance to set things right ... and it mostly does, offering up a much better story than the non-story of its predecessors.

The characters continue to shine, even if they are occasionally a bit one note. Seeing Amadeus and the X-crew bounce off of each other is particularly fun The plot itself is also stronger, because we get clever investigation that only descends into mindless fighting in the last few issues, by which time we're well ready for that. Everything is also well marinaded in X-Men lore, from the core villain to the reborn Weapon X silliness.

All around, a decent volume, that jumps up to 3.5 stars, after the 2.5 stars or so of its predecessor.

[Juan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this for several reasons. Frankly I really like the humor between all the heroes. Perhaps the funniest moment in the whole book is a scene were the team is constantly weighing the pros to nuking a enemy Weapon X facility, much to the chagrin of Amadeus Cho who desperately does not want to kill anybody. I think Domino is really cute. Even Sabretooth has some really good moments. There is one character in particular, a doctor named Jennifer, that sort of has a moment of importance but she then disappears and we dont really know what happens to her. I felt compelled to reread/skim through the back end issues to see if there was something I missed.

On a somewhat related note, I really dislike Amadeus Cho. I never paid attention to Pak's "Totally Awesome Hulk" and I am kinda glad I did. I think I get enough of him in the Champions title.

[Dimitris Papastergiou · Rating 3 out of 5]

A Fun read with great artwork even though just like I explained on the Weapon X & Totally Awesome Hulk reviews, creating a "new" character out of old characters, has gotten old for a few decades now and it's not interesting anymore.

[47Time · Rating 2 out of 5]

There's a fun scene where the Weapon X minions order pizza. That's a point of view that's hard to come by when they minions are usually just cannon fodder for the good guys. Logan's team have to get past their differences and work as a team if they want to have a chance against the Weapon X cyborgs. Of course, the green 'genius' has to botch it up. Hulk is annoying AF and definitely not a super-genius, nor a team player. And we find out who the blast-from-the-past bad guy is. This story was a pain to read, mainly because of the Totally Craptastic Hulk.

William Stryker is now a reverend of the Church of Human Potential. He is also the leader of the Weapon X program that is gathering mutant DNA to build some of the coolest cyborgs since the sentinel program. Ok, those were androids. The program's latest target for conversion is Robert Andrews. The good guys want to save him.

The Incredibly Incompetent Hulk manages to lose the target, so the rest of the guys consider blowing up the facility sky high. Dushy-hair Hulk again opposes logic. Hell, I would also gauge his eyes out if he called me 'Sabes' (from Sabertooth). The others demonstrate how this is, in fact, a PG-13 comic and agree to his so-called plan. 'I'm the only bomb you need' my ass.

Logan's team kicks butt like there's no tomorrow. What a stupid coincidence that head scientist Alba's latest 2 cyborgs are only minutes away from hatching. Hulk doesn't forget to be a total horse's ass even in the middle of a fight. 'Those guards are people!' Waaah! Baby wanna baba! He gives the bad guys just enough time to finish their latest and greatest cyborg. What a Totally Retarded Fu... Hulk!

I have to root for the 'Hulkverine' cyborg no matter how cool Wolvi's other teammates are. Hulk finally taps into the 'Hulk smash' persona within him. But it turns out he didn't have to. The second cyborg turns on the first, then on Stryker's minions. Deus ex machina anyone? Then he hops away like an overweight bunny.

[C · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars.

Continuing the great x-read of 2017/18....

I am shocked that I enjoyed this volume as much as I did. After reading the volume of weapon x leading up to this crossover, I kind of hated Cho Hulk (what happened to regular Hulk anyway? I feel a bit lost with the "regular" Marvel Universe outside of the x-books right now...) and felt that the story was sort of going nowhere. Couple that with the idea of wolverhulk or hulkverine (which is just fanboy crap taken too far) and I was *really* not looking forward to this one.

But you know what? This really wasn't bad at all. All of the characters act in character, Cho Hulk ends up being much more interesting than he was in that last volume (and one of my favorite characters in the story...). The Hulkverine story is... well, predictable, but not nearly as bad as I thought that it was going to be.

This one feels a bit like the summer blockbuster film - an extremely fast paced story that keeps going, keeps you reading... But ultimately doesn't change a whole lot and ends basically exactly how you expect it to.

I'm not sure that I am too interested in reading more about Weapon H or that the Marvel Universe needs yet another freaking wolverine running around, but it is what it is. This was an enjoyable enough read...

[Adam Fisher · Rating 4 out of 5]

Taking place after Weapon X Vol 1 and Totally Awesome Hulk Vol 3, we see the Weapon X program continuing to ramp up production on new and deadly creatures. First smaller animals, then robots hiding in human shells, the program is learning from every fight with our crew, absorbing their DNA and incorporating it into the next batch. Only when Hulk comes on scene do our Weapon X people (Old Man Logan, Sabretooth, Domino, Warpath and Deathstrike) realize the danger coming up...
"Batch H" is almost ready... body of Hulk, claws of Logan, healing and strength of all, with the luck of Domino... how will they be able to take down the amalgamation of all of them?
Though the book unfolds exactly like you'd expect, quite a bit of the story revolves around Cho trying to stop the murderous nature of the Weapon X members, even to the overall detriment of the team's mission at one point. It leads the reader to ask themselves "How far is too far to get the mission accomplished? Especially when the enemy has no qualms about killing you..."
Other than being a little bit predictable, I thought this crossover was full of the right amount of action and story. Will definitely continue with both titles. Recommend.

[Jimbo · Rating 4 out of 5]

A near perfect story of evil, bigotry, and genocide of an entire race.

Again it is Stryker who is involved. With secrets experiments, killing in the name of science. Continuing from The Totally Awesome Hulk and Weapon X Vol 1, Doctor Alba has been perfecting (cooking) her latest killing machine Weapon H. Amadeus Cho, The Hulk, tries to get the Weapon X originals NOT to kill the humans in the secret base of Stryker's.

Hulk tries to save a young man names Bobby, and in that battle, quits working with the Weapon Xs and their killing ways.

Doctor Alba, thr evil that has no emotions, sets out to control her Weapon H and have him kill an entire city of people. The New Wolverine gets involved. Weapon H (a hulkverine - hulk and wolverine DNA in an adamantium body with a piece of Cody, an ex-military guy who could watch innocent people die, becomes more aware of what he is being used for and finds a conscience. He is probably strong enough to kill everyone in Weapon X and millions of people in what was established as three minutes. He fights the programming with the help of Weapon Xs and lucky Domino.

Great story leading into the other volumes of Weapon X and the story of Weapon H in his own comic.

[Adam Stone · Rating 3 out of 5]

A solid crossover between Weapon X, Vol. 1: Weapons of Mutant Destruction Prelude and The Totally Awesome Hulk, Vol. 1: Cho Time. The world's smartest Hulk and a team of mostly clawed/healing factored mutants work together to take down a Weapon X like facility run by anti-mutant preacher, William Stryker.

There's a lot of history between mutants and Stryker but you don't need to know any of it to enjoy this solid morality-centric action book.

The Weapon X run goes rapidly downhill after this volume, so enjoy it while you can.

Fans of Pak's work on Hulk titles should enjoy this. It's also nice to see subtle dissidence between Old Man Logan and Sabretooth, as opposed to the operatic melodrama in the next couple of volumes.

[Alex E · Rating 3 out of 5]

This crossover pits the (then) current weapon X team together with Amadeus Hulk to combat evil scientists who have taken over the weapon x program to make Hulk/wolverine hybrids. Yep, they are called Hulkverines.

So this was actually pretty fun. The team members have enough history to make it entertaining - even if it doesn't make much sense that they work so well together. Usually they're trying to tear each other limb from limb, but hey it works. I guess the added member - Hulk is a pretty good deterrent for any shenanigans. I think Great Pak was smart to add him, as he is the level headed and most powerful one, the lead kind of defaults to him.

Ultimately, the story is pretty stretched out - I mean, they seriously could've done this in maybe 2-4 issues, but still, it was a fun story with plenty of action. But now I guess there's a deadly Hulkverine out there somewhere and the team just kind says... meh we'll deal with it later... Comics, am I right!?!

Highly recommended for fans of Wolverine or Hulk.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars. So Grek Pak is writing Totally Awesome Hulk and Weapon X. So it’s only natural that he cross his two books with each other. I mean I would if I were writing two books. Cho and the mutants do some detective work and find where the facility is that’s creating these cyborgs that are trying to KILL ALL MUTANTS!! That sounds like a video game. Anyway, they eventually find this place and put the plan together to destroy it. They could have done this quick but lame ass Cho gets in the way of our mutants doing what needs to be done and almost gets everyone killed. Sucka. I liked what happened at the end with Weapon H tho. I have that run lined up to read once I finish this Weapon X run. All in all this was descent. Some cool artwork, nice action and enough of a story to be enjoyable.

[Villain E · Rating 3 out of 5]

Continuing off of Weapon X vol. 1, a new Weapon X program has started up under the leadership of William Stryker. They've gathered the DNA of Logan, Sabretooth, Lady Deathstrike, Warpath, Domino and the Hulk. They're trying to create a Hulk with an adamantium skeleton, but when the test subject grows, their muscles rip off the bone. Hulk and the mutants work to figure out where the facility is while the scientists perfect their process and search for new recruits.

For the first time in a long time, an X-Men book is about the metaphor again. There a strong undercurrent of bigotry in this. The art is hit and miss. The climax was a bit of a let down.