it does not compute.

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Wolverine: Weapon X #15 (Marvel) "Tomorrow Dies Today - Conclusion" Jason Aaron Ron Garney Jason Keith Matt Milla Cory Petit Garney/Chris Sotomayor (cover)

what we learned: i'm still a little doozy. so bad Deathloks from future go back to the past to kill a number of people, one of which is Miranda Bayer, who's part of the future resistance. she's also their agent in the present, and in holding one child hostage (said child set to grow up to be the same Deathlok about to kill her), she brings about the conversion of the Deathlok to find its own humanity. it certainly is ambitious as it gets, but somewhere along the way to this ending, we all got our heads slapped upside down.
oh shit moment: the head of the future resistance - is the same Deathlok who got humanized.
what's next: Kurt lives! no, not Cobain.


machines get personality disorders too.

snaps: Wolverine: Weapon X #12

... where we get the full "Days of Future Past" treatment, this time with the Terminator, i mean the Deathloks gunning for new Captain America in the present (and who presumably is the "General" in the future?). but wait, what happened to the real Luther Manning?

what? he didn't turn into Frankencastle??


Weapon X now means "X-tra Useless".


c'mon, do we still think hiding a shield on his back is believable?


as well as readily re-attaching severed robotic limbs in a snap??


see, Virginia, the big bad Wolverine's not unbeatable!

them's the Mannings

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Wolverine: Weapon X #11 (Marvel) "Tomorrow Dies Today, Part 1" Jason Aaron Ron Garney Jason Keith Cory Petit this title continues to impress. its a great opportunity for longtime allies Logan and the reborn Steve Rogers to bond, and what better to celebrate than a global pub crawl? hold up - didn't Rogers just drink milk? am i to construe he's just like the rest of us? anyway, somebody's been offing super-powered individuals, and his name's surely as hell not Scourge. no, Deathlok has been doing the rounds. even better than Jason Aaron's opening scene is his ending reveal. its also nice to see Ron Garney back to drawing Cap, even just for this story arc.

hey, its .... Bat-Moon Knight! with some Rockslide thrown in.


but you HAVE kissed a boy, though?



hey, don't you be dissin' Billy Ray Cyrus!!


you have a marauding bulletproof cyborg, and you use an ax?

snaps: Ultimate - New Ultimates #1

... where we find Jeph Loeb continuing his massacre of the Ultimate Universe in the attempt to out-Millar Mark Millar, and possibly even @Not_Mark_Millar. by the time this ends, i won't be surprised if there were no Ultimates left. tell you what: if you keep Frank Cho on the book till its inevitable critically-panned conclusion, i'll keep reading it.

"and we created fake Twitter accounts too!"


"Linda"? "asian"? is it Linda Park??


and after this conversation, you're still a coward.


you think this happens in the 616? maaaaaaaybe.


is it that time of the year? yeah, spring is in the air!

let's see how this plays out - Hela gets a son, but she also secretly empowered and sent the Defenders to grab Thor's hammer. in the end, Thor would be useless to her as her child would now be the Thunder/Death God. but how does Loki figure into this joke again?

ninjas don't like sexy chicks who can kick their asses

am sure the plot - Psylocke hunting down the already-forgotten '90s X-villain Matsu'o Tsurayaba, complete with Kill Bill references ("Kill Matsu'o", 77 Club/Crazy 88) - will all be about a misunderstanding, especially if it involves fighting Wolverine and Yukio.

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drive-by readings: Wolverine #77

Wolverine #77 (Marvel) Daniel Way Marjorie Liu Giuseppe Camuncoli Onofrio Cattachio Marte Gracia Cory Petit Leinil Francis Yu/Jason Keith (variant cover)

continuing Daken's not-so-subtle manipulation of his temporary teammates and other characters (currently the FF), resulting in burnt flesh, broken bones, damaging injuries mostly to him. to what end, i don't know. thankfully, they put in the Dark Reign flavor right within the regular Wolverine book, unlike Bullseye ... oh, that's right, Hawkeye doesn't have a regular book. back to Daken. he can pull off this shit, because he's practically indestructible. as he said, he's currying favor with people just in case the ones he hangs out with get marched off to the gallows soon enough. we can't wait for that day. also we can't wait for the day somebody really wipes off that grating smug smile off Daken's face, courtesy of Mr. Camuncoli.

side note: see, for all of Reed Richards' smarts, he can't even mooch data off Osborn's computer. loser.

side note 2: hey, Leinil, what the hell is Daken supposed to be doing on that cover? stepping off from some invisible helicopter? or walking on thin air from building to building?

drive-by readings: Wolverine: Weapon X #4

Wolverine: Weapon X #4 (Marvel) "The Adamantium Men, Part 4 of 5" Jason Aaron Ron Garney Jason Keith Cory Petit Garney/Morry Hollowell (cover) Adi Granov (variant cover)

action fans, look no further as this issue takes a page out of Family Guy's Peter vs Chicken battles - am sure Ron Garney got a kick out of Logan exchanging blows and slashes with technically his descendant - complete with comedic moments like dragging your head on train tracks and a stoppage when a schoolbus full of kids comes along. what i don't get is why Logan had to bother with going to the Carribean and wringing an address out of Blackguard (read: Blackwater Worldwide) employees to find their CEO who wants to jumpstart the Weapon X program, when he can just ask any of his superhero cohorts to find out that information. as to being arrested by H.A.M.M.E.R. - eh well ... let's just go back to the slicing and dicing, shall we? i almost expect Sabretooth to show up next issue, head reattached and all. also: Maverick is a useless backup and a terrible lay (allegedly).

drive-by readings: Ultimate Avengers #1

Ultimate Avengers #1 (Marvel) "The Next Generation, Part 1 of 6" Mark Millar Carlos Pacheco Danny Miki Justin Ponsor Cory Petit Laura Martin Leinil Yu/Jason Keith (variant cover)

aaaaaaaaaaaaaand Mark Millar's back in the Ultimate line. i confess i haven't read Ultimatum yet from end to end. i'm vaguely aware of Magneto going nuts, a Biblical flood, Wolverine killing Multiple Man, Blob eating the Wasp, and most of the mutants dead as well. now we have the Ultimates - the Avengers - rebuilding their world post-Armageddon. looks like everyone got infected by Hawkeye's suicidal-take-no-prisoners-approach, even Captain America casually tosses bad guys out of a helicopter, or its just a bad day to take on the Avengers. anyhoo, most of it is a flashback with Cap and Hawkeye dealing with A.I.M. and Cap meeting the Red Skull (for the first time) - and the ugly jerk (looking like Crossbones) is ostensibly his son. pretty much Cap goes AWOL after that (more backstory to come) and Nick Fury is brought back to head a special ops team to bring Cap back in.

i've been a fan of Carlos Pacheco (Avengers Forever is a treasured book) and i'm astonished at this new level of amazing interior art - maybe its Danny Miki's inks. suffice it to say: wow.

if anything at all, this is NOT Ultimates 3. and thank God for that.

Logan ran

well, its been awhile since Wolverine's been challenged (like say, when he lost his adamantium). i mean, if you're gonna put him all over the place (overexposure, i may say), give him some meaningful battles and tough bastards to duke it out with.

like cutting-edge engineered adamantium-enhanced soldiers. just like him. see, you made him run.

out with the ninjas, in with the soldiers.

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Wolverine: Weapon X #2

red tide

Red Hulk slaps Thor around. and even gets to carry his hammer to pound his Asgardian ass.




no need to show Thor getting his punches in, the outcome is the same.

somewhere, somehow, Tony Stark is laughing.

they better explain the whole shebang next issue, or am gonna pummel someone.

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Hulk #5
Jeph Loeb/Ed McGuinness/Mark Farmer/Jason Keith/Comicraft