Revisiting Wolverine: Weapon X

by Barry Windsor-Smith (Writer/Artist)

A lot of people can surely agree that there are some characters that are all over the place right now. Spider-Man, Batman, Captain America, Iron Man, Superman and countless other popular characters are kept in quite a high number of books, being members of teams and being the object of constant team-ups with less popular characters. It’s always due to a bit of marketing, of course, but there are always other factors that comes in with those characters, like movies and other such things.

However, if there is one character that keeps on appearing everywhere, it has to be Wolverine. Being the poster-boy of mutants in countless X-titles, possessing a few titles with his name in it and being in several other teams, James Howlett is perhaps the most overused character in Marvel’s staple. However, a lot of that is due not only to the movies, but also due to his popularity from prior titles, like Chris Claremont’s Uncanny X-Men or Miller and Claremont first Wolverine mini-series.

There’s no doubting that the character can be written very well, that there is a certain appeal to the duality of Wolverine balancing through ferocity and peace. However, not every writers tend to balance things out evenly, which means there are a lot of books available with his name on it, with a few being actually worth the trouble.