Wolverine Weapon X #11

History

Wolverine: Weapon X as a series was launched in 2009 by Marvel to coincide with the release of the Fox feature film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, with Jason Aaron — then best known for Scalped and Ghost Rider — given his first solo ongoing starring the character, paired with artist Ron Garney. Aaron's editorial philosophy, described in contemporaneous interviews, was to treat each arc as a stand-alone genre exercise accessible to new readers rather than a continuity-heavy deep dive, analogous to how Garth Ennis approached Punisher MAX. By the time issue #11 went to press in March 2010, Aaron had just completed his Ghost Rider run (Ghost Riders: Heaven's on Fire), freeing him to focus fully on what became the series' concluding multi-issue arc.

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• Published March 3, 2010 by Marvel Comics; written by Jason Aaron, with art and cover by Ron Garney.
• Story title: 'Tomorrow Dies Today, Part 1 (of 5)' — the arc ran through issues #11–15 of the series.
• Debuts an all-new version of Deathlok: future-sent cyborg assassins built from the reanimated corpses of murderers, whose dead brain matter is fused with artificial intelligence programmed for killing — a redesigned concept distinct from earlier Deathlok incarnations.
• Also introduces Miranda Bayer, a key supporting character from the alternate future Earth-10511 who travels back to warn present-day heroes of the Deathlok threat.
• The issue features the first substantial post-resurrection appearance of Steve Rogers in this series, depicted in a character-driven scene where Logan takes Rogers on an international bar crawl to celebrate his return from the dead, with Nightcrawler acting as their designated driver.
• The Deathlok army's mission in the arc is to travel back from a Roxxon-dominated future to eliminate people who will one day become threats — a time-travel premise drawing explicit comparisons to the Terminator films and Days of Future Past.
• The complete 'Tomorrow Dies Today' arc (issues #11–15) was adapted as a 6-episode motion comic mini-series by Marvel Knights Animation, released on DVD by Shout! Factory on May 13, 2014.
• The arc and issue were collected in Wolverine: Weapon X Vol. 3: Tomorrow Dies Today (ISBN 9780785146506) and later in the Wolverine by Jason Aaron: The Complete Collection Vol. 2 trade paperback.

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