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First of all, this much-hyped book is living up to the hype so far, a classic and very bloody, gory Wolverine story with seriously good art and writing. Now it is a bit confusing to understand that the "Weapon X" name means so many things... and somehow Alpha Flight got included in this book in an OHOTMU entry.
SPOILER SPACE
..spoiling space since 1983..
SPOILERS:
A depowered but fully armed Maverick [Agent Zero] appears at the end, passing info to Wolverine about "Weapon X". Now when I read it, I thought it meant just the Weapon X program from Wolverine's origin, the bad guys that bonded the adamantium to Logan's skeleton and made him all animal-ish. At the back of the book are reprinted OHOTMU-style entries for Maverick and a large entry for the Weapon X group (taken from the Wolverine 2004 OHOTMU book) which includes both that version of Weapon X as well as the series written by Tieri, you know, the Malcolm Colcord-led group of mutant-hunting mutants. The OHOTMU entry for Weapon X lists Wild Child, Aurora and Jeffries, with head shots for each of them.
Unfortunately, Marvel released no fewer than 5 versions of this book, 3 of which are fairly easy to find and 2 are rarer variants, not so easy to find, nor cheap. Completists will buy 5 copies of a book just to get little headshots of reprinted material, but everyone else, just buy at least one copy of the book because it's good.
Love,
rplass