Weapon X: The Draft—Kane

    (Marvel, 2002)
™ and ©2003 Marvel Characters, Inc.

The Weapon X Program—the Canadian project that unleashed Wolverine and Alpha Flight on an unsuspecting Marvel Universe—is back in business and bent on proving to the world that “[m]utants can be utilized for mankind’s benefit.” Serving as lead-ins to the ongoing Weapon X (Vol. 2) series, five one-shots hit the comics shops in the fall of 2002 and chronicled the formation of the new team as it recruited and tested those who would fill out its ranks.

This third installment in the series of Weapon X one-shots finds the inordinately loyal cybernetic super-soldier Kane—along with the boat-rocker, Agent Brent Jackson—trying to recruit the enigmatic mutant Rapture, a former SHIELD agent, for the Canadian super-team. Jackson has some history with Rapture, which complicates matters, but everything really hits the fan when SHIELD operatives turn up to arrest the bad-girl-in-black-leather for treason. Given the espionage-related elements of this tale from writer R.A. Jones (The Ferret) and artist Pablo Raimondi (JLA Secret Files), there are a few Steranko-inspired moments, but this is just another super-hero adventure story—nothing to scream about.
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October, 2002
Cover Price: $2.25
13 copies available from $0.88 		R.A. JonesPablo Raimondi