Jeffrey Harris is a writer at Collider who specializes in animation, superhero movies, and sci-fi and believes in animation's imaginative power.
Marvel's Deadpool & Wolverine is a fantastic comic book superhero extravaganza. For longtime Marvel fans and comic book readers, the film is a cornucopia of delights with its amazing style and repeatedly pays homage to its titular Marvel characters. The film finally features Wolverine on the big screen wearing a costume faithful to his comic book roots. Not to mention, Wolverine teaming up with Deadpool for the first time paid off in dividends.
The"Weapon X" storyline debuted in Marvel Comics Presents #72, revealing how Wolverine gained his adamantium-bonded skeleton and claws. Scientists of the Weapon X program kidnap and experiment on Wolverine, aka Logan. His skeleton is bonded with adamantium, and he is brainwashed and conditioned to become a living weapon and tool for killing. Eventually, Wolverine fights back against his captors and escapes into the wilderness, where he lived for several years.
The storyline influenced Saunders as an artist in a big way. As he wrote on Instagram,"This iconic image of Weapon X is likely my most indelible memory of Wolverine from that period," adding,"I knew I had to translate this image to live action." Saunders's artwork looks like a more faithful rendition of Windsor-Smith’s Weapon X design than the attire that appeared onscreen in a previous live-action X-Men movie.
'Deadpool & Wolverine' Features Plenty of Variants Close Saunders' concept art of Weapon X looks exceptional, but it would have been a bit redundant to portray Jackman as Weapon X again.
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