WRITER EXCLUSIVE
Christos Gage assembles a dirty half-dozen of Wolverines for Weapon X-Men
SPINNING OUT OF THE RECENT Original X-Men one-shot, Weapon X-Men sees Phoenix bringing together a team of Wolverines from parallel dimensions – dubbed “the band of Logans” by writer Christos Gage – to continue the fight against the multiversal menace of an alternate Onslaught, an unholy combination of the dark sides of Magneto and another incarnation of the erstwhile Marvel Girl.
“It’s interesting to see how many varied types of characters there can be who are also the same person,” Gage tells Red Alert. “We’ve got two from very different dystopian worlds, one from the early 1900s, one who’s kind of let himself go, and one who’s undead, so they’re pretty varied. But there are also universal similarities such as the claws and the attitude.
“The versions of Wolverine weren’t selected to reflect anything in particular, except that I wanted there to be an element of suspicion and mistrust among them – each of them has a reason their teammates might not feel able to count on them fully.”
CRYING WOLVES
Specifically, the Yildiray Çinar-illustrated four-parter features Wolvies from the Age Of Apocalypse, Earth X, Old Man Logan and Marvel Zombies. “I picked ‘damaged’
Wolverines, although with Logan that comes with the territory!” laughs Gage. “Here we’re talking about one who in Weapon X from Age Of Apocalypse is literally damaged as he’s missing a hand; one who is old, overweight and has a reduced healing factor in Earth X; one who has the mother of all traumatic pasts in Old Man; and one who’s actually dead in Zombie Wolverine.
