Weapon X-Men #1 Review

Written by: Joe Casey
Art by: ChrisCross, Mark Morales
Colors by: Yen Nitro
Letters by: VC’s Clayton Cowles
Cover art by: Alex Ross
Cover price: $4.99
Release date: February 19, 2025

Weapon X-Men #1, by Marvel Comics on 2/19/25, finds Cable assembling a team to save a mutant lost behind enemy lines. Of course, nothing is as it seems.

Is Weapon X-Men #1 Good?

Plot Synopsis

Weapon X-Men #1 begins with and mostly follows Wolverine tracking down a reported theft of Adamantium in Spain. He confirms the theft but runs into dead ends while looking for the thief. The issue switches to Paris as Wolverine sits at a bar and tells his troubles to a drunkard who doesn’t speak English. When Wolverine leaves the bar and enters the elevator to go down to the lobby, a strange gas fills the elevator, and the lift mechanism malfunctions, sending the elevator hurtling to the lobby. The explosion kills several hotel attendees and forces Wolverine to switch hotels.

Later, Deadpool breaks into Wolverine’s new hotel room while the latter takes a shower. Deadpool explains he’s come to warn Wolverine that somebody is out to kill him. Suddenly, the talk is interrupted by Cable in an airship, who orders Wolverine to suit up to save a mutant. Cable declines to provide details, and Deadpool comes along for the ride.

Cable makes a brief stop in London to enlist Chamber to join the group, which Deadpool duly names Weapon X-Men.

The mission? The team enters Latveria to find and capture/rescue Thunderbird, who happens to be in the middle of a field destroying Doctor Doom’s massive Servo-Guards. Wolverine approaches Thunderbird peacefully, but the superhumanly strong mutant reacts out of instinct and punches Wolverine across the field. Wolverine should be able to shake off the punch, but the others are surprised to see him in deep pain and coughing up blood.

The team splits up. Cable and Chamber go after the fleeing Thunderbird, and Deadpool stays with Wolverine. Plot twist: Deadpool gassed Wolverine in the Paris elevator to temporarily neuter his healing factor. Why? While Cable and Chamber run after Thunderbird, Deadpool torches the airship and escapes with an incapacitated Wolverine to deliver him for a high-paying bounty on behalf of Baron Strucker.

First Impressions

Holy clunky coincidences, X-Man! Joe Casey is all over the place (literally) in Weapon X-Men #1, so if you were looking for a comic that puts these characters together without the slightest effort into a cohesive reason for a new team, it doesn’t get any dumber than this.

How’s the Art?

ChrisCross and Mark Morales stepped up for art duties, and the results are fairly good. Aside from one or two weird facial expressions on Wolverine, the figure work is strong, the action is solid, and there’s plenty of energy on every page.

What’s great about Weapon X-Men #1?

If nothing else, Joe Casey nails Deadpool’s quippy humor and ambiguous morality, putting him in the unusual spot of part protagonist and part antagonist, depending on your point of view. Deadpool humor can get obnoxious in a hurry (see the current Cody Ziglar run and the previous run by Alyssa Wong), but Casey strikes a good balance for the Merc with a Mouth.

What’s not great about Weapon X-Men #1?

Bluntly, the plot is a convoluted mess of characters jumping from one scene to the next in a string of coincidences, poorly constructed motivations, and things happening out of the blue. Plus, whoever thought to slap the One World Under Room tie-in label on this issue is engaging in ethically grey marketing.

Why is Wolverine investigating Adamantium theft in Spain and then suddenly staying in a hotel in Paris? Why is Wolverine taking orders from Cable, and why is Cable unwilling to share mission details? Why is Chamber taking orders from Cable? Why is Thunderbird destroying Servo-Guards in the middle of a field in Latveria? Where did Deadpool get a mini-airship to abscond with Wolverine if neither he nor Wolverine knew where Cable was headed?

The questions go on and on and on. This issue is a Doom Event tie-in in name only, so you can’t say Joe Casey was forced to make changes that harmed the script to make the tie-in aspects work. It’s a mess.

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Final Thoughts

Weapon X-Men #1 is a confusing, convoluted mess of a comic designed to force a group of heroes together. Joe Casey’s script is all over the place (figuratively and literally), but the art is at least pretty darn good.

4.5/10

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