I've always sort of wondered about Wolverine. He's immensely popular, from cartoons and movies and so on. But what about comic books? What are the Wolverine comics to read?
Weapon X is a good place to start. It's good. Surprisingly so. The story has a jumbled hard sci-fi narrative that blends delusion with reality. Logan is dehumanized and turned into a puppet at the behest of some scientists. It's bloody stuff, torture for fun and profit.
Is Logan a man or animal? Are we all animals on the inside? Could any person be reduced to a feral state? Is that our natural way? Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but I really felt the struggle of a man fighting the brainwashing of his captors. Certainly, in real life there is documentation of the CIA sponsoring experiments to induce psychotic breaks or memory loss on (voluntary) subjects. This isn't too much of a stretch for a program to dehumanize a captive, and Logan is really put through the grinder here. It made me want to read more Wolverine.
Rating: 8 out of 10 Hobbesian savages
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