Weapon X - First Class #2 - Marvel

Another X-Men mini-series! Although I had to get this one because I've liked the rest of the First Class run with the X-Men and Wolverine. As with the last blog, I feel that this story could've run in the other title, Wolverine: First Class, but . . then again maybe not because Kitty's not involved. I kind of get the feeling that they're 'testing the waters' here. What we have here is almost the same as the Original Sins story-line that just ran through the Origins book. Charles is delving into Logan's mind to help him recover some of his lost memories. In the Original Sins story-line, they spent a lot of time there also. But this, I believe, is one of their earlier attempts at reconstructing some of his memories. This is another retelling of the story where the Weapon X program made him into a killing machine. This issue covers the story where they pumped his skeleton full of the Adamantium. But I think the real point of this particular story is to delve more into the characters surrounding Logan . . the scientists who did this to him . . Doc Cornelius, Professor Horton and Ms Hines. Apparently the Professor didn't warn Cornelius or Ms Hines, Hinesy, that Logan was a mutant. They had no idea. It'll be interesting to see how the personalities of these 3 also affected the finished product . . Wolverine. Marc Sumerak and Mark Robinson brought us this story. It was ok . . for what it was. But if you already read Marvel Comics Presents #72 through #84, you've already seen this story in it's entirety . . and in a much better presentation. But . . it is what it is. In the back of the book there's a little 9 page story about Deadpool and his relationship to all that's going on in the main story. It was told in the usual dead-pan style that his stories are, but what really surprised me was the art. Tim Seeley does the art for this part of the story, and it was really pretty sharp looking. I much preferred it to Mark's art in the lead. And then of course there's Michael Ryan's fantastic cover. I thought the book was ok. But, if you religiously follow the X-Men, there wasn't really anything new presented here. You've seen it all before.