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Wolverine Weapon X #15

Jul 2010
Jason Aaron, Ron Garney

Story Name:

Tomorrow Dies Today Conclusion


Synopsis

Wolverine Weapon X #15 synopsis by Peter Silvestro
Rating: 4.5 stars

Future: Roxxon scientists create a human brain running an AI with human emotions programmed in but tabled. Deathlok Prime is sent on his murderous missions with his bloodthirsty human brain kept in check by the AI….

Present: Miranda Bayer holds a knife to the throat of the kid who will grow up to be Deathlok Prime while DPrime from the future holds a gun on her. She threatens to kill the boy to prevent the cyborg from coming into existence and DPrime is torn between the human’s instinct to kill everyone and the AI’s desire to understand compassion. Wolverine enters and tries to talk Miranda out of killing the boy, suggesting that her visions sent her to the kid so she could save him. DPrime is confused//future Miranda Bayer battles Deathlok Prime and suddenly realizes what to do—she asks DPrime to kill her—which he does. Word gets to the General but he remains silent….

Present: The assembled AvengersCaptain America (Bucky Barnes), Spider-Man, Luke Cage, and Spider-Woman, led by Steve Rogers—are fighting the Deathloks while Thing and Iron Fist evacuate the children. Deathlok Prime comes to a certain peace, the AI, interested in human emotions has submerged the human killer inside and wants to explore the topic. He rejects his programming and joins the Avengers against the Deathloks….

Future: The dying Miranda Bayer has recognized Deathlok Prime as the man she came to love decades earlier while aiding him in learning to be human. DPrime continues in his mission to lead the Deathloks to the past to kill anyone who has the potential to become the resistance’s mysterious leader. The General learns that all of his fighters are dead and has nothing to say….

Present: The Deathloks are defeated and Miranda thinks she can prevent the boy from growing up to be a serial killer; DPrime tells her she can’t change that and vanishes, leaving a lot of confused Avengers. Deathlok, mastering its human side, is free to explore the world, picking up a rabbit’s foot as a memento of the day….

Future: The aide informs the General that Bayer and her team are all dead and the Deathloks have teleported to the past, asking what orders he has for their agent there. The General relays instructions to take the boy to a certain orphanage where he will be abused and grow up to become a serial killer. The aide is taken aback but the General—revealed to be Deathlok Prime—is certain….


 

Review / Commentaries


Wolverine Weapon X #15 Review by (January 18, 2022)

Review: And it all wraps up in a complicated but satisfying denouement that is heartbreaking in its intensity, even though we could have guessed the General’s identity several issues earlier but not have explained it yet. And for once there’s an alternate future history that I would really like to see more of. If you can imagine that. The most offbeat point is that Wolverine, whose comic this is, has almost no bearing on the bigger events; the Avengers do even less, just mopping up the bad guys whose presence would become inconvenient, to say the least. Very, very nice.

Comments: Deathlok Prime goes on to UNCANNY X-FORCE #5 and continues from there. The alternate future where Roxxon rules is Earth-10511. Matt Milla collaborated on the colors.



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Ron Garney
Ron Garney
Jason Keith
Ron Garney (Cover Penciler)
Ron Garney (Cover Inker)
Chris Sotomayor (Cover Colorist)
Additional Credits
Letterer: Cory Petit.

Characters

Listed in Alphabetical Order.

Captain America
Captain America

(James "Bucky" Barnes)
Iron Fist
Iron Fist

(Danny Rand)
Luke Cage
Luke Cage

(Power Man)
Spider-Man
Spider-Man

(Peter Parker)
Spider-Woman
Spider-Woman

(Jessica Drew)
Thing
Thing

(Ben Grimm)

Plus: Deathlok Prime, Roxxon Corporation.