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Wolverine: Weapon X
Wolverine: Weapon X, Volume 2: Insane in the Brain
Welcome to Dunwich Sanatorium, where the only people weirder than the patients are the doctors in charge. The newest resident is a man known only as Patient X, a poor confused soul who doesn't remember who he is or how he came to be here. He only has vague memories of living with wolverines and traveling to the moon and killing lots and lots of people. Lucky for him, he came to the right place. The good Dr. Rot knows everything there is to know about the human brain. Including how to remove it...
Collecting: Wolverine: Weapon X 6-10 & Dark Reign: The List Wolverine
Collecting: Wolverine: Weapon X 6-10 & Dark Reign: The List Wolverine
120 pages, Hardcover
First published March 24, 2010
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About the author
Jason Aaron
2,357 books1,676 followersJason Aaron grew up in a small town in Alabama. His cousin, Gustav Hasford, who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers, on which the feature film Full Metal Jacket was based, was a large influence on Aaron. Aaron decided he wanted to write comics as a child, and though his father was skeptical when Aaron informed him of this aspiration, his mother took Aaron to drug stores, where he would purchase books from spinner racks, some of which he still owns today.
Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors.
In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.
Following this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo.
In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. His continued work on Black Panther also included a tie-in to the company-wide crossover storyline along with a "Secret Invasion" with David Lapham in 2009.
In January 2008, he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, though it would not affect his work on Scalped. Later that July, he wrote the Penguin issue of The Joker's Asylum.
After a 4-issue stint on Wolverine in 2007, Aaron returned to the character with the ongoing series Wolverine: Weapon X, launched to coincide with the feature film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Aaron commented, "With Wolverine: Weapon X we'll be trying to mix things up like that from arc to arc, so the first arc is a typical sort of black ops story but the second arc will jump right into the middle of a completely different genre," In 2010, the series was relaunched once again as simply Wolverine. He followed this with his current run on Thor: God of Thunder.
Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors.
In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.
Following this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo.
In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. His continued work on Black Panther also included a tie-in to the company-wide crossover storyline along with a "Secret Invasion" with David Lapham in 2009.
In January 2008, he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, though it would not affect his work on Scalped. Later that July, he wrote the Penguin issue of The Joker's Asylum.
After a 4-issue stint on Wolverine in 2007, Aaron returned to the character with the ongoing series Wolverine: Weapon X, launched to coincide with the feature film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Aaron commented, "With Wolverine: Weapon X we'll be trying to mix things up like that from arc to arc, so the first arc is a typical sort of black ops story but the second arc will jump right into the middle of a completely different genre," In 2010, the series was relaunched once again as simply Wolverine. He followed this with his current run on Thor: God of Thunder.
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June 30, 2021
This was quite cool and its mostly Logan in a mental asylum not knowing who he is and how it got there and it plays like one of those movie where he meets the guy trying to escape but thank god he didn't because the crazy Dr Rot does insane stuff and we follow the villain and his origins and feats of insanity and crazy Frankenstein monster like experiments like attaching chainsaws in place of the hands of a man and he is curious about Logan and that leads them to a collision course and what will happen? Will Logan remember the man he used to be and also whats with Melita?
And finally my favorite story in this volume which is the romance of Wolverine and this new girl and Logan consulting all his lady friends in the MU about this. It was funny and a bit meta and also quite romantic and treading new ground for Wolverine considering his history and probably one of the best stories in the book and I love the crazy dynamic art here!
And finally my favorite story in this volume which is the romance of Wolverine and this new girl and Logan consulting all his lady friends in the MU about this. It was funny and a bit meta and also quite romantic and treading new ground for Wolverine considering his history and probably one of the best stories in the book and I love the crazy dynamic art here!
October 26, 2010
Too violent and gory for my personal taste, but the art is nice. I'm also not a fan of trippy-mess-with-your-head kind of comics, so if you like that kind of thing, you'll probably enjoy this way more than I did.
January 15, 2023
Wolverine gets kidnapped by a mad scientist who has taken over the asylum. Thankfully, Psylocke and Nightcrawler show up to help out. We also explore more of Wolverine's relationship with the reporter he's been hanging out with. I can't see that ending well.
October 21, 2011
If the first volume of Jason Aaron's Weapon X series was like a good action movie, the second is a solid horror film. Locking someone as tough as Wolverine in a horrible asylum is a great idea. I thought the art and colors really fit this type of story. For someone who likes the X-Men but doesn't really read any of the books, seeing Nightcrawler and Psylocke was very cool as well. The real highlight for me was the one-shot that explored Wolverine's love life. If you excuse a cross-genre reference, the story essentially explores the problem Aragorn and Arwen would have faced in Lord of the Rings, but Wolverine is such a hard luck character that it carries more emotional weight. I really enjoy the character pieces that Aaron does and they bring the character to life and show there is more to Wolverine than he lets on. I already ordered the third and final volume of this series and I am looking forward to reading it!
June 30, 2019
(This review was originally published by GraphicNovelReporter.com on July 21, 2010)
His memory erased and his identity shattered, Wolverine finds himself a patient at the Dunwich Sanatorium. Under the care of Dr. Rotwell, Wolverine is tortured by the sadistic guards routinely as part of his ongoing therapy to bring forth, and purge, his inner darkness. The mind games played out against Wolverine are, of course, part of a larger plan, as Rotwell is not quite what he seems.
Writing in a tone of old horror comics, like Tales from the Crypt or an episode of The Twilight Zone, Jason Aaron serves up a gory story of crazed medical experiments where the cure is worse than the disease. It's a particularly fitting story for Wolverine, who has had his brain messed with so many times.
"I've been brainwashed more times than I can count. I've been a plaything for mutant telepaths. I've been mindwiped and programmed to kill," he recalls halfway through the story. "But I'm not insane."
It's a lament he is forced to remind himself of as he deals with the craziness surrounding him within Dunwich.
Hospitals and psychiatric wards have long been fodder for horror stories, and Aaron works the genre into his Wolverine series nicely. Yanick Paquette's pencils are functional and his framing serves the story well. Wolverine is often depicted from above or below, and rarely in a dead-on level fashion, to remind us that he is constantly under observation within Dunwich. The panels are drawn in angles and slashes, sometimes overlapping or unevenly spaced to show the gaps between. It's a fittingly fractured presentation.
Insane in the Brain was originally published as issues 6 through 9, Aaron's second story arc, of the Wolverine: Weapon X comic book series. For the trade, Marvel has also included issue 10 to help bolster the page count, but it's an odd addition to this trade and so thematically different from the chapters that preceded it that it feels jarring and ill-placed.
The final chapter details Wolverine's acceptance that he's falling in love with a reporter and is penciled by C.P. Smith, in a style so radically different from Paquette's earlier chapters that it's almost a visual assault. While there is nothing truly wrong with Smith's art, his work here, like the tone of this individual story, is just so radically different from what came before that it provides more disruption to the trade collection than it does any sense of closure to the overall story. Aaron's writing is terrific though, and there are some really good moments, even a few laughs, throughout the closing segment as Wolverine opens himself up to a new woman.
His memory erased and his identity shattered, Wolverine finds himself a patient at the Dunwich Sanatorium. Under the care of Dr. Rotwell, Wolverine is tortured by the sadistic guards routinely as part of his ongoing therapy to bring forth, and purge, his inner darkness. The mind games played out against Wolverine are, of course, part of a larger plan, as Rotwell is not quite what he seems.
Writing in a tone of old horror comics, like Tales from the Crypt or an episode of The Twilight Zone, Jason Aaron serves up a gory story of crazed medical experiments where the cure is worse than the disease. It's a particularly fitting story for Wolverine, who has had his brain messed with so many times.
"I've been brainwashed more times than I can count. I've been a plaything for mutant telepaths. I've been mindwiped and programmed to kill," he recalls halfway through the story. "But I'm not insane."
It's a lament he is forced to remind himself of as he deals with the craziness surrounding him within Dunwich.
Hospitals and psychiatric wards have long been fodder for horror stories, and Aaron works the genre into his Wolverine series nicely. Yanick Paquette's pencils are functional and his framing serves the story well. Wolverine is often depicted from above or below, and rarely in a dead-on level fashion, to remind us that he is constantly under observation within Dunwich. The panels are drawn in angles and slashes, sometimes overlapping or unevenly spaced to show the gaps between. It's a fittingly fractured presentation.
Insane in the Brain was originally published as issues 6 through 9, Aaron's second story arc, of the Wolverine: Weapon X comic book series. For the trade, Marvel has also included issue 10 to help bolster the page count, but it's an odd addition to this trade and so thematically different from the chapters that preceded it that it feels jarring and ill-placed.
The final chapter details Wolverine's acceptance that he's falling in love with a reporter and is penciled by C.P. Smith, in a style so radically different from Paquette's earlier chapters that it's almost a visual assault. While there is nothing truly wrong with Smith's art, his work here, like the tone of this individual story, is just so radically different from what came before that it provides more disruption to the trade collection than it does any sense of closure to the overall story. Aaron's writing is terrific though, and there are some really good moments, even a few laughs, throughout the closing segment as Wolverine opens himself up to a new woman.
August 11, 2011
This book is damned tedious at the beginning - I was going to add "unimaginative" but that's unfair. The doctor is a madman and thus unpredictable, but the "drama" of Logan's plight is...ugh. It ends pretty much like all Logan stories do.
The only redeeming quality of this collection is the unexpected last story as Logan grapples with his greatest enemy...love. Still not up to the quality I'd expect from Aaron, but it's closer by far than the rest of the book.
The art in this book is uniformly middling (well, excepting the covers). I'd think a rising star like Aaron would be able to work with someone who could make the scenes a little clearer.
The only redeeming quality of this collection is the unexpected last story as Logan grapples with his greatest enemy...love. Still not up to the quality I'd expect from Aaron, but it's closer by far than the rest of the book.
The art in this book is uniformly middling (well, excepting the covers). I'd think a rising star like Aaron would be able to work with someone who could make the scenes a little clearer.
June 4, 2010
Jason Aaron is so consistently awesome it's scary...
February 27, 2024
Wolverine od Jasona Aarona byl pro mě naprostý strop. Drsné a srdceryvné příběhy, často plné brutality. A pamatuju si, že tahle variace na Přelet nad kukaččím hnízdem mě dostala nejvíc.
July 16, 2024
Slightly less fun than the previous volume, as this one was set in a psychiatric hospital, and was filled with the usual tropes to do with 'evil' psychiatric wards, which always gives me a bit of an ick. Also, one of the nurses was drawn in a really sexist way which also gave me the ick.
TW for sexism, blood, gore, human experimentation, 'evil' psychiatric ward tropes, depictions of human organs such as brains and intestines, murder, guns, death, hints at torture.
TW for sexism, blood, gore, human experimentation, 'evil' psychiatric ward tropes, depictions of human organs such as brains and intestines, murder, guns, death, hints at torture.
May 16, 2012
You just need to stop and think about what kinds of Hell Jason Aaron has put the lovable Wolverine through. You need to think real hard about what kind of asshole Jason Aaron has become since writing Wolverine Weapon X. You also need to think about how good this story is and thank your lucky stars Jason Aaron isn't writing your story.
September 28, 2010
Super creepy! This is one of the more original Wolverine stories I have read in recent times. That is saying a lot!
Awesome in its build up, as well as in it's "resolution."
Excellent art!
Awesome in its build up, as well as in it's "resolution."
Excellent art!
January 13, 2018
ABSOLUTE RATING: {3+/5 stars}
STANDARDIZED RATING: <3/5 stars>
STANDARDIZED RATING: <3/5 stars>
September 8, 2021
Aaron uderza z siłą młota. Ponownie. I udowadnia, że nie tyle czuje Wolverine'a, a potrafi naskrobać naprawdę mocną historię kierowaną raczej dla dorosłych.
Wolverine podejmując się śledztwa, na podstawie informacji, jakie uzyskał od pewnej dziennikarki, a która ma na niego chrapkę, nie myślał na pewno, że spotka go w związku z tym piekło na Ziemi. Trafi do Dunwich (Lovecraft jak w mordkę strzelił), które okazało się bardzo specyficzną placówką dla ludzi chorych. Bo tutejszy doktorek wydaje się stosować bardzo niewłaściwe metody, a jego zachowanie wskazuje, że sam powinien znaleźć się na oddziale zamkniętym.
Do tego mamy skołowaciałego Logana, który nie pamięta nawet jak się nazywał. Co się u licha stało? Co się dzieje w tym ponurym budynku? I jaki związek ma to z krzykami dobiegającymi z podziemi... Plus fajny gościnny występ dwóch postaci i mamy naprawdę smaczny koktajl dla fanów Wolverine'a i nie tylko. Bo historia miejscami potrafi być BARDZO krwawa i niepokojąca. Uważam to za duży plus i tak trochę się rozczarowałem w pewnym momencie, bo myślałem, że Aaron będzie się bawił konceptem i okaże się, że Loganowi naprawdę odwaliło, zwłaszcza gdy do pokoju weszła pielęgniarka...
Cóż, widać wszystkiego nie można mieć, ale były tu zadatki na więcej. Kreska jest miejscami aż za mocna, a projekty psycholi świetne. Czuć ten brud tego miejsca, że aż chce się tam wracać. Nie wiem jak to o mnie świadczy, wiem jak to wpływa na odbiór. Mocne 4/5. Naprawdę się tu świetnie bawiłem.
Wolverine podejmując się śledztwa, na podstawie informacji, jakie uzyskał od pewnej dziennikarki, a która ma na niego chrapkę, nie myślał na pewno, że spotka go w związku z tym piekło na Ziemi. Trafi do Dunwich (Lovecraft jak w mordkę strzelił), które okazało się bardzo specyficzną placówką dla ludzi chorych. Bo tutejszy doktorek wydaje się stosować bardzo niewłaściwe metody, a jego zachowanie wskazuje, że sam powinien znaleźć się na oddziale zamkniętym.
Do tego mamy skołowaciałego Logana, który nie pamięta nawet jak się nazywał. Co się u licha stało? Co się dzieje w tym ponurym budynku? I jaki związek ma to z krzykami dobiegającymi z podziemi... Plus fajny gościnny występ dwóch postaci i mamy naprawdę smaczny koktajl dla fanów Wolverine'a i nie tylko. Bo historia miejscami potrafi być BARDZO krwawa i niepokojąca. Uważam to za duży plus i tak trochę się rozczarowałem w pewnym momencie, bo myślałem, że Aaron będzie się bawił konceptem i okaże się, że Loganowi naprawdę odwaliło, zwłaszcza gdy do pokoju weszła pielęgniarka...
Cóż, widać wszystkiego nie można mieć, ale były tu zadatki na więcej. Kreska jest miejscami aż za mocna, a projekty psycholi świetne. Czuć ten brud tego miejsca, że aż chce się tam wracać. Nie wiem jak to o mnie świadczy, wiem jak to wpływa na odbiór. Mocne 4/5. Naprawdę się tu świetnie bawiłem.
December 12, 2017
This story goes off the beaten path, especially in regards to Logan and the state of his mind. Mental institutions always seem to bring out the worst in fictional characters and the horror stories told in this setting are chilling to say the least.
Logan is in a psychiatric institution with no idea about his identity. He is having doubts about belonging there given the torment he goes through during Dr. Rotwell's supposed treatment.
Logan is in a psychiatric institution with no idea about his identity. He is having doubts about belonging there given the torment he goes through during Dr. Rotwell's supposed treatment.
September 10, 2021
Writer Jason Aaron transplants the main character from the standard Wolverine/Logan storylines and plops Logan in the middle of a horror movie. He doesn't remember who he is, where he is, or how he got there.
The head of the Dunwich Sanatorium is Dr. Rottwell, a mysterious butcher known as Dr. Rot. He seems to be aware of Logan's nature and is manipulating him to release his violent tendencies. Dr. Rot's project involves stealing brains, and he's been secretly murdering patients of the asylum. The God Brain Machine will enable Dr. Rot to manipulate people's thoughts or even shut them down.
Add some Mafia gunmen who suspect one of their comrades has been murdered by Dr. Rot, and you have the makings of a classic horror/crime story with sufficient amounts of gore and weirdness. The art evokes images of legendary EC horror comics.
The appearance of Nightcrawler and Psylocke breaks the mood/atmosphere a bit, but is necessary to the storyline. The "Love And The Wolverine" single story is a neat postscript to the proceedings, where Wolverine fears that he's entering another ill-fated romance with reporter Melita Garner, searches his soul and seeks the advice of his superhero comrades.
I read this in the single issue monthly comic Wolverine:Weapon X #6-10.
The head of the Dunwich Sanatorium is Dr. Rottwell, a mysterious butcher known as Dr. Rot. He seems to be aware of Logan's nature and is manipulating him to release his violent tendencies. Dr. Rot's project involves stealing brains, and he's been secretly murdering patients of the asylum. The God Brain Machine will enable Dr. Rot to manipulate people's thoughts or even shut them down.
Add some Mafia gunmen who suspect one of their comrades has been murdered by Dr. Rot, and you have the makings of a classic horror/crime story with sufficient amounts of gore and weirdness. The art evokes images of legendary EC horror comics.
The appearance of Nightcrawler and Psylocke breaks the mood/atmosphere a bit, but is necessary to the storyline. The "Love And The Wolverine" single story is a neat postscript to the proceedings, where Wolverine fears that he's entering another ill-fated romance with reporter Melita Garner, searches his soul and seeks the advice of his superhero comrades.
I read this in the single issue monthly comic Wolverine:Weapon X #6-10.
May 21, 2018
Insane in the Brain (WX #6-9). This is a fairly bizarre Wolverine story, as the grotesquerie of Dr. Rot's asylum would fit right into the darkest Batman stories. Still, it's a nice extension of the Weapon X story that doesn't just continue straight on. Instead, we're seeing different ripples in the pond, in the form of a modern-day program to create weapons and a hidden secret of Weapon X. A bit too much of this story descends (again) into mindless violence, but the horrific asylum is so evocative that it may keep you up at night [3+/5].
Melita (WX #10). This is Aaron at his best, offering a beautifully non-linear, character-focused story of Wolverine's newest girlfriend, Melita. One of its joys is that it's funny, which often brings out the best in Aaron [5/5].
Melita (WX #10). This is Aaron at his best, offering a beautifully non-linear, character-focused story of Wolverine's newest girlfriend, Melita. One of its joys is that it's funny, which often brings out the best in Aaron [5/5].
May 13, 2017
So the insane asylum with Wolverine was both strange, horrific and somewhat confusing. The story of his love life was an odd touch at the end.
Maybe I just need to read the other issues and then go from there.
Interesting look at his life if you're a fan.
Maybe I just need to read the other issues and then go from there.
Interesting look at his life if you're a fan.
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October 26, 2018I love a lot of Aaron’s stuff (primarily Scalped and southern bastards) and I love a lot of Wolverine but not Aaron’s Wolverine... I’ve not read it all yet though - maybe jumping into Weapon x at Vol 2 was a bad call so I’ve not given it any stars.
I am at ‘1.5 stars barely readable’
I am at ‘1.5 stars barely readable’
May 26, 2025
Melita my girl, you are probably one of my favorite Wolverine love interests (if not the best, so far). This one was a little hard to read only because we see Wolverine all pathetic and lost for a majority of it. But I'll still round up and give it 4 stars.
August 31, 2017
Great art, interesting story
This coming had an interesting story line. Not for the weather of heart! At times it was a bit hard to follow, but still enjoyable.
This coming had an interesting story line. Not for the weather of heart! At times it was a bit hard to follow, but still enjoyable.
January 19, 2019
Wolverine faces dr Rot in his asylum and his relationship with Miranda deepens
June 26, 2025
Felt more akin to a volume of Hellblazer. Loved it
December 30, 2024
This was a reality twister. Logan is acting very out of character. Is it a ruse or Is something deeper going on? The mystery of it, of how he had gotten there and what the heck was going on kept my interest. Lots of violence and gore happens. Sort of cathartic. That ending...
August 28, 2011
Jason Aaron returns for a second volume of the highly brilliant series that is "Wolverine: Weapon X", this time with a different artist to regular collaborator Ron Garney, Yanick Paquette.
The book does continue the story set out in "Adamantium Men" though not literally as it starts in the middle then introduces the beginning about halfway through. This might be disconcerting for some but stick with it as the story is awesome. It's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" crossed with "Joker's Asylum" with a Joker-esque madman in charge of a mental hospital calling himself Dr Rot.
Wolverine meanwhile is incapacitated as one of Rot's patients, unable to remember who he is or how he came to be there as Rot lobotomises the other patients and creates some deranged machine to turn people crazy.
I thought the mad house and the character of Dr Rot were excellently creepy, very "Se7en" and dark with lots of twisted goings on. Aaron does a great job introducing new characters and making them as interesting as existing ones and brings the story to an admirably unexpected end.
Paquetta's art is fantastic throughout. Very detailed, very clear, with a strong focus on characters' expressions that few comics artists today can match. It reminded me of Andy Kubert's work with some of Tony Harris', great artists all.
An excellent read and original story though a lot less Wolverine than in the first book, this is a great continuation in this series from the increasingly more interesting Jason Aaron.
The book does continue the story set out in "Adamantium Men" though not literally as it starts in the middle then introduces the beginning about halfway through. This might be disconcerting for some but stick with it as the story is awesome. It's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" crossed with "Joker's Asylum" with a Joker-esque madman in charge of a mental hospital calling himself Dr Rot.
Wolverine meanwhile is incapacitated as one of Rot's patients, unable to remember who he is or how he came to be there as Rot lobotomises the other patients and creates some deranged machine to turn people crazy.
I thought the mad house and the character of Dr Rot were excellently creepy, very "Se7en" and dark with lots of twisted goings on. Aaron does a great job introducing new characters and making them as interesting as existing ones and brings the story to an admirably unexpected end.
Paquetta's art is fantastic throughout. Very detailed, very clear, with a strong focus on characters' expressions that few comics artists today can match. It reminded me of Andy Kubert's work with some of Tony Harris', great artists all.
An excellent read and original story though a lot less Wolverine than in the first book, this is a great continuation in this series from the increasingly more interesting Jason Aaron.
September 25, 2010
While I found the story in the second volume of Wolverine to be told well. The characters are well fleshed out, the story is a quaint little horror story, and the art, well the art isn't anything home about. However, from a writers point of view, nothing here really gripped me as something I would want to do or what I wouldn't want to do in my own writings. The plot elements of a main character in an insane asylum is a interesting one that I would do, however, the way it's handled here isn't what I would want to do with it. The plot element of a main character not remembering who they are is not something I find all that interesting and want to explore. It's just one of those tropes that I don't like, personally, it's the same with body switching and time travel plots, don't necessary find them interesting or enticing story plots. It doesn't hinder the story told here because it's done differently but it's still not what I want to do. It's the same with what works with this story, is also not what I want do, nothing that was done here made me want to do it in my own work.
October 3, 2010
Okay, the main story in this comic was really creepy. It was the story of Logan being kept in an asylum without any memories of who he is, while a crazy sadistic doctor performs experiments on him and the other patients.
Most of the time the story reminded me of splatter horror movies with all the blood, missing limbs and cut-out brains.
The last story was much shorter but more interesting, for it tells how Logan suddenly finds himself in a relationship with the reporter Melita Garner and everyone gives him advice on how to handle this situation, from Black Widow to Jubilee. I especially liked the scene where he holds Luke's and Jessica's baby. Quote Jessica: "He asked to hold the baby. He's never asked to hold the baby. Maybe I should take her back. I mean, he's got those claws and --"
Most of the time the story reminded me of splatter horror movies with all the blood, missing limbs and cut-out brains.
The last story was much shorter but more interesting, for it tells how Logan suddenly finds himself in a relationship with the reporter Melita Garner and everyone gives him advice on how to handle this situation, from Black Widow to Jubilee. I especially liked the scene where he holds Luke's and Jessica's baby. Quote Jessica: "He asked to hold the baby. He's never asked to hold the baby. Maybe I should take her back. I mean, he's got those claws and --"
July 23, 2011
My love/hate relationship with Jason Aaron continues. If all of his Wolverine books were as well-written as these Weapon X books, I could cut out the hate part of our relationship.
Aaron takes wolverine in exact opposite directions from the first 5 issues to these 5 issues. In this, he's caught up in a storyline he'd most likely never be featured in without the other X-Men. And that's what made this book great.
Wolverine meets the first 20 minutes of House on Haunted Hill. Pitch perfect artwork.
Aaron takes wolverine in exact opposite directions from the first 5 issues to these 5 issues. In this, he's caught up in a storyline he'd most likely never be featured in without the other X-Men. And that's what made this book great.
Wolverine meets the first 20 minutes of House on Haunted Hill. Pitch perfect artwork.
July 1, 2013
Boy, that Jason Aaron is one sick puppy. After reading his work in Scalped I should have seen this coming. Him, working on a Wolverine book is bloody genius, emphasis on bloody. The introduction of Dr. Rot is really good. He's sadistic and is a great foil for Logan. My only quibble would be the somewhat forced relationship with Melita. I think I like her character but as with most the women in Wolverine's life, her meaningfulness is amped too high, too quickly. The art by Yanick Paquette is really good. He draws the creepy viscera involved very well. Overall, a very good book.
June 11, 2011
Since reading Daniel Way's run on Wolverine, I've been expecting a lot more from his books. It was nice to see that he finally knows who he is and what he wants in life. Jason Aaron, as the current writer on the series, has just gone and gotten rid of all that. With this volume, "Insane in the Brain", Aaron brings back the confused killer of the Weapon X (Barry Windsorsmith) days. It's an un-original plot with nothing new to offer for the Wolverine saga.
January 29, 2011
Starts out very promising, but fails to live in its own circumstances. Instead of having Wolverine deal with his problem himself, a rather abrupt deus ex machina is used to "fix" the main conflict. Also, the cliffhanger ending is a little too indefinite, with no sense that it will matter much in the future.
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