Marvel Select Wolverine: Tales of Weapon X

by Fred Van Lente, Marc Sumerak, Mark Robinson (illustrator)

132 pages, Paperback

Published June 6, 2024

About the author

Fred Van Lente is the New York Times-bestselling author of comics as varied as Archer & Armstrong (Harvey Award nominee, Best Series), Taskmaster, MODOK's 11, Amazing Spider-Man, Conan the Avenger, Weird Detective, and Cowboys & Aliens (upon which the 2011 movie was based), as well as the novels Ten Dead Comedians and The Con Artist.

Van Lente also specializes in entertaining readers with offbeat histories with the help of his incredibly talented artists. He has written the multiple-award winning Action Philosophers!, The Comic Book History of Comics, Action Presidents! (all drawn by Ryan Dunlavey), and The Comic Book Story of Basketball with Joe Cooper (Ten Speed September 2020).

He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Crystal Skillman, and some mostly ungrateful cats.

Reviews

[Malcolm Cox · Rating 4 out of 5]

Told as a series of short stories, this sees Wolverine go back through is memories, with the help of Professor X, to try to find out about his missing past.
An interesting storyline dealing with trauma and grief as well as the argument about knowing the past vs living for the future.
The deadpool segment was very entertaining, but the front cover is a bit misleading - he's barely in it.

[Jamie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent collection of Wolverine stories, one of which was good featuring Deadpool who is always a fun character to read.
The artwork was fairly good for the most part, as was the writing but never particularly special. Just enjoyable enough.

[Sophie · Rating 5 out of 5]

my hottest take is that origin stories are always the most interesting