Rick Remender's Uncanny X-Force served as a high water mark for both the X-Force franchise and the X-Men books in general. Marvel has never seemed to know quite how to follow up that book's success, hence why the company went from publishing two simultaneous X-Force comics for Marvel NOW to zero for All-New, All-Different Marvel. Weapon X comes across as an X-Force comic in all but name. It's a book that emphasizes the darker, more violent members of the X-Men family and isn't afraid to let the blood flow. Unfortunately, it doesn't do much that we haven't already seen from various X-Force and Wolverine comics in the past.
This first issue leans on a disappointingly familiar premise. Weapon X is back from the dead, and it has a new batch of cybernetically enhanced assassins ready to take on failed experiments like Old Man Logan and Lady Deathstrike. There's nothing about the conflict established in this issue that feels remotely fresh or exciting. Which is surprising given that writer Greg Pak has crafted some very clever, groundbreaking X-Men comics in the past. X-Treme X-Men this isn't. There's some appeal to be found in the characterization (particularly the icy dynamic between Old Man Logan and Sabretooth) but that offers small comfort at best.
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