Deadpool / Wolverine: Weapon X-Traction #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeDeadpool/Wolverine: Weapon X-Traction #1 represents a notable chapter in Marvel's long history of film-driven publishing events, serving as the collected edition of an eight-part backup saga deliberately engineered to coincide with the summer 2024 theatrical release of the MCU film Deadpool & Wolverine. Rather than a traditional crossover event with its own dedicated title, the story was architecturally distributed as bonus backup chapters embedded across eight separate ongoing Marvel series — spanning titles from Incredible Hulk to X-Men — making #1 the first time all eight installments appeared together under a single cover. The project also demonstrates Marvel's evolving strategy of using self-contained, continuity-light team-up stories as on-ramps for new readers drawn in by the film, while simultaneously rewarding longtime fans with the duo's classic frenemy dynamic carried across an absurdist multiverse canvas.
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The story was conceived and announced in early 2024, timed to ride the cultural momentum of the Deadpool & Wolverine film, and Marvel went to unusual structural lengths to build anticipation: each of the eight host issues (beginning with Incredible Hulk #14 in July 2024 and concluding with X-Men #2 in August 2024) received a unique Weapon X-Traction variant cover by a different artist, including Steve McNiven, Ryan Stegman, Jorge Molina, Cafu, Declan Shalvey, and David Nakayama. Writer Ryan North, then also handling the main Fantastic Four series, described the chapter-by-chapter format as a formalist challenge — likening it to 'a series of short films that also add up to a feature.' The collected single-issue edition shipped on December 4, 2024, with a February 2025 cover date, under Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski.
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- Written by Ryan North with art by Javier Garrón; cover art for the collected edition by Javier Garrón (Cover A) and Rod Reis (variant).
- The story originally ran as eight five-page backup chapters embedded in eight separate Marvel ongoing series between July and August 2024: Incredible Hulk #14, Captain America #11, Fantastic Four #22, Spider-Gwen: The Ghost-Spider #3, Immortal Thor #13, Avengers #17, The Spectacular Spider-Men #6, and X-Men #2.
- Deadpool/Wolverine: Weapon X-Traction #1 (the collected edition) was released on December 4, 2024, with a February 2025 cover date — making it a one-shot that reprints all eight installments for the first time in a single 48-page package.
- The story is a self-contained, continuity-independent multiverse adventure requiring no prior reading of any ongoing series to follow.
- Each of the original host issues received a dedicated Weapon X-Traction variant cover, with artists including Steve McNiven, Ryan Stegman, Jorge Molina, Cafu, Declan Shalvey, and David Nakayama.
- No price increase was applied to any of the original host issues when the backup chapters appeared — readers received the bonus content at no extra cost.
- Key Collector Comics lists the issue as a non-key with no noted first appearances of new characters.
- The saga was part of a broader Marvel publishing initiative tied to the Deadpool & Wolverine film, which also included the Deadpool & Wolverine: WWIII miniseries (Joe Kelly/Adam Kubert) and a new Deadpool ongoing (Cody Ziglar/Rogê Antônio).
- The issue features antagonists including zombies and an interdimensional villain described in solicitations as a 'weird space god,' as well as appearances by the Superior Deadpool variant of the character.
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