23 LGY#051 PAK VAN LENTE CINAR D’ARMATA

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7 59606 08649 8 BONUS DIGITAL EDITION – DETAILS INSIDE! DECADES AGO, A CLANDESTINE MILITARY EXPERIMENT ATTEMPTED TO CREATE THE PERFECT SOLDIER. IN THE YEARS SINCE, THE BLEEDING-EDGE SCIENCE DRIVING THE PROJECT CULMINATED IN THE WEAPON X PROGRAM, WHICH WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CREATION OF MANY OF THE WORLD’S MOST VICIOUS KILLERS AND MERCENARIES. IT WAS THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN DISBANDED, BUT RECENTLY RESURFACED, CAPTURING MUTANTS FOR NEW EXPERIMENTS AND EXTERMINATION. INITIALLY TARGETS, OLD MAN LOGAN, SABRETOOTH, WARPATH, LADY DEATHSTRIKE AND DOMINO FOUGHT BACK AND DISMANTLED THE ORGANIZATION, AND HAVE SINCE TURNED THEIR ALLIANCE OF CIRCUMSTANCE INTO A TRUE MUTANT-RESCUE SQUAD.

PREVIOUSLY IN WEAPON X... SABRETOOTH AND THE TEAM WERE CONTRACTED TO RETRIEVE FORMER X-MAN MONET ST. CROIX FROM A MYSTERIOUS CULT IN ASPEN, COLORADO. THEY SOON DISCOVERED THAT MONET AND THE CULT’S FOLLOWERS WERE UNDER THE THRALL OF THE TELEPATHIC CRIMINAL MENTALLO. USING NANITES, LADY DEATHSTRIKE PROTECTED THE TEAM AND MONET FROM MENTALLO’S MANIPULATIONS, JUST IN TIME FOR DEADPOOL TO MAKE HIS EXPLOSIVE ENTRANCE AS A HIRED GUN WORKING FOR THE CULT!

WEAPON X-FORCE PART TWO

WRITERS GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE

ARTIST YILDIRAY CINAR

COLORIST FRANK D’ARMATA

LETTERER VC’s JOE CARAMAGNA

COVER ARTIST RAHZZAH

GRAPHIC DESIGNERS EDITOR X-MEN GROUP EDITOR JAY BOWEN & CHRIS JORDAN D. ANTHONY GAMBINO ROBINSON WHITE

EDITOR IN CHIEF CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE PRODUCER C.B. CEBULSKI JOE QUESADA DAN BUCKLEY ALAN FINE

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