Naked, bloody, and screaming in pain – this is the Wolverine that faced readers in the story arcWeapon X. This was more than just the tale of how Wolverine got his adamantium skeleton and claws. Legendary creator Barry Windsor-Smith challenged fans’ expectations of super hero stories and created Marvel’s most brutal and beautiful comic.

In 1991, whenWeapon Xwas first published, Wolverine was one of Marvel’s most popular super heroes. ForWeapon X, creator Windsor-Smith reimagined the super hero origin story as a cyberpunk horror story. A shadowy organization abducts Wolverine in order to create the ultimate killing machine, and we are plunged into a story of basic, animalistic survival. As Wolverine endures more and more trauma, the lines between reality and consciousness disappear.

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