Wolverine: Weapon X

Barry Windsor-Smith both wrote and painted this single-issue 2009 Marvel comic, a standalone reexamination of Wolverine’s brutal origins in the Weapon X program. It distills the character’s iconic, harrowing transformation into a government asset into a visceral, art-driven experience. Though brief, this issue is a definitive, self-contained statement on the trauma that forged the mutant hero, showcasing Windsor-Smith’s singular storytelling at its most intense.