Week In Review : Deadpool #58 + Wolverine and the X-Men #14 + X-Treme X-Men #1

Greetings and salutations folks young and old!

Step right on in and enjoy as we bring you a bunch of new releases, today in a special Marvel Monday set of reviews!

(Psst! And of course, drop back in tomorrow for more reviews!)

Deadpool #58 (Marvel)

Story : Daniel Way

Art : Salvador Espin

(Reviewed by Anant Sagar)

So epic-ness continues in this issue as Deadpool faces off against Black Swan. No not Natalie Portman from the movie, I’m talking about an assassin from back in Deadpool’s past.

He was apparently the best. That is until Deadpool killed him......or so he thought.

Over the course of the issue we find out that Taskmaster had told Black Box that Wade doesn’t have a healing factor anymore. So now BB wants Wade dead. He finds Black Swan to tell him that he can kill him now.

Swan catches Wade on the toilet while he’s taking a... um... #2. Insists that he flushes before he dies. Wade dodges and jumps into the bathtub which has an ANTI BALLISTIC SHOWER CURTAIN!! I was like WHAT???

So anyhow, Swan dies. Again!

But that doesn’t deter Black Box. Turns out now that BB has the info that Wade can die, he’s going to be making a lot of calls to a lot of people. Because we all know how many people want him dead, and next in Black box’s list is BLACK TOM CASSIDY.

What is it with this guy and BLACK? Black Box, Swan, and now Tom.

What You should Be Reading : Jason Aaron’s Wolverine

Wolverine is arguably the most famous comic book character created this side of the 70’s. However, regardless of your view on that debate, he certainly is the most overused and burnt out character in contemporary comics books. As a member of the Avengers, leader of half the X-Men, Principal of The Jean Gray Academy, Protector of China Town and struggling father - it’s safe to assume he has a pretty busy life. So much so that, with all his appearances, readers were all pretty much getting more of the same week after week.
That was of course, before Jason Aaron (Scalped, PunisherMAX) began his work on the character.

Wolverine : Weapon X

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This is where all the madness of the current run started. After the main Wolverine title was handed over to Logan’s son Daken, Marvel announced the new ongoing Wolverine: Weapon-X by rising star Jason Aaron. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Aaron’s work, this guy has a very twisted mind and is a very mind-blowing storyteller. With Weapon-X, Aaron gave us Wolverine as he was always supposed to be written: Badass, yet intellectual and sophisticated. In Weapon X, without too many details, we have one excellent arc after one another, some delving deep into his mind while others unleash the animal. Oh yeah, he gets a girlfriend too. Bet you wanna read this book now, dontcha.

... and Emma Frost is amused

Wolverine : The Red Right Hand Saga

With the relaunch of the Wolverine family of titles in 2010, Jason Aaron got the well deserved title of the de-facto Wolverine writer. With an initial run of arcs lasting seventeen issues, Aaron scripted a tale of Wolverine answering for past crimes from a mysterious organization called The Red Right Hand. I’m not gonna give away too much, but you can guess these are essentially people who are pretty miffed with Logan, and have something worse than death in store for him.