Maybe not perfect, but pretty darn good. Good art, good characterization, and fantastic interactions between Sabretooth and the rest of Weapon X. Its an overall fun issue! Read Full Review

It's okay, but it could be a lot better. A standard Pak script is dragged down severely by both the pencils and the colors. Read Full Review

For the first time in awhile there's a reason to wonder what happens next, and that's enough to consider this issue a success. Read Full Review

On decent notes. Domino's characterization was better. We didn't get the ditsy party girl. We. imo, got a decent balance of a fun Domino, who also can be serious. Yuriko clarifies that she's a cyborg. Great, since she was lumped in with mutants in the first arc & Taylor's ANW. It's also good Pak made an attempt to acknowledge what this team does. They're the hunting unit in charge of dealing with threats. Kitty has them as an official team, and lent them some wings for the black ops missions. Still holes there, but good some effort was made to answer why this team still exists.

Now for the bad. There's timeline issues. Since chapter 16, we time-skipped a good bit. Domino is in her new solo outfit & Logan has all of his injuries from his solo series. However, Logan says his injuries are from the monsters during his birthday fight with Creed. If he's not lying, then the continuity is off. Logan was perfectly fine after that fight. Then there's Domino's solo series. In the first chapter, Warpath is included in her group of ex boyfriends. but they're clearly still together in this.

Finally, Creed's characterization is still bad. There's the opening scene where he's appointed leader. Warpath doesn't condone the choice & Creed starts yelling at Warpath to drop and give him 20. He comes off like a 5-year-old playing soldier. His later telling of a "Yo mama" jokes really cements how little Pak understands this character, and how far he goes in depicting him suffering from arrested development. The ending drives this home further, but I won't spoil.


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I gotta say the series doesn't do any of the character justice. Aside from Logan, none of the characters are used that often, and it's sad the book all of them have been in the longest in recent years, happens to be this. Pak seems to care more about making the characters "hip & funny" for kids, rather than writing them like they're supposed to be taken seriously. This chapter is no different. The sitcom dialogue is horrible, there's many issues with the timeline. Finally, once again, Pak shows his lack of research on the characters. He writes them as inexperienced in areas where we've seen them in the past. Namely Sabretooth, not knowing Omega Red at the beginning of the chapter, and acting like he's never been in charge before. Both of which are huge contradictions. Creed fought & defeated Omega Red in X-Factor and he's supposed to be the Invisible King Crime Lord of Asian -in addition to ruling Madripoor with Mystique. I'll stop here as far as pointing out the flaws. This chapter is another example of how Pak has not done anything different with these characters since he got all of them one year ago. None are given any depth, and all of them have been pretty ooc in their depiction. Sabretooth is just the most infamous example because he's been the comedy relief since the book started. So he gets the worst of everything. more