Weapon X: Days of Future Now (2005)

Thirty years from now, Wolverine is one of the few free X-Men. Weapon X Director Malcolm Colcord managed to apprehend most mutants, including some of the X-Men, and capture them in Neverland concentration camps. Many other mutants, humans, and heroes have been killed.

Wolverine sneaks across town, passing Sentinel guards, while he tries to remember how things went so wrong.

Thirty years earlier, the Director and Madison Jeffries have started their War of the Programs and have started killing John Sublime’s U-Men and Children followers. Along the way, Colcord frees Sauron from jail and gains an ally in taking down Jackson’s Weapon X team.

Meanwhile, Wolverine and Agent Zero have put aside their differences and team-up to prevent Fantomex from killing John Sublime during one of his presentations. However, Fantomex is determined to get his revenge on Sublime for destroying Fantomex’ ship E.V.A..He ignores his old allies’ warnings that Sublime could tell them what happened to the missing Jackson’s team and the Neverland inmates. Things get out of hand, especially when an amnesiac Chamber enters and kills Sublime. Wolverine follows Jono into an alley and tries to bring his memory back, but with no luck. Jono escapes back to Jackson. Fantomex meets up with the dying Sublime, who, with his final breath, tells Fantomex a secret. He simply walks away afterward.

Meanwhile, while fighting Sublime’s guards, Agent Zero surprisingly recognizes Mesmero in the fleeing crowd and follows him back to Jackson’s hideout.

Later, the Director, Madison, Sauron, and the Sentinels have also found their hideout and break the roof open. Colcord is confident that Weapon X will once again belong to him.

Notes:
This limited series takes place a few months after Weapon X (2002) #28. It was jumpstarted by a lot of angry fans and writer Frank Tieri himself, who felt furious and disappointed because Tieri never got the chance to finish his original story, as Marvel had chosen to cancel the title. A lot of letters were sent to Marvel and across the Internet, begging them to finish the story. This 5-part series is the result.

The Days of The Future Past, an original concept of X-Men writer Chris Claremont (the very first alternate X-reality ever!) was first seen in the pages of Uncanny X-Men #141-142, and the story the future Wolverine tells about Kelly and the Brotherhood is fully handled in said issues.

Wolverine started his quest against Weapon X in Weapon X (2002) #16. It was then agreed that Chamber would act as the X-Men’s mole in Weapon X, reporting back what was going on over there. However, when Chamber dug deeper into the Weapon X headquarters, he found out some devastating horrors about abused telepaths and disappeared after hijacking a flight to the Nevarland camps. Wolverine got curious for not hearing from Jono again and went after the lad. It’s unknown at this point what happened to Jono afterward.

Fantomex is actually one of Sublime’s former agents, apparently built in “the World,” an artificial biosphere. He and Wolverine went to investigate in New X-Men #142, which they almost had to pay their lives for. After surviving the landing back to Earth, Fantomex met up with Wolverine and Agent Zero and fought alongside him and Maverick to finish off Sublime and his U-Men in Weapon X (2002) #25. This resulted in his and his “spaceship” E.V.A.’s apparent deaths, and with Wolverine and Agent Zero missing. Later, it was revealed that Fantomex survived in Mystique #21 but not really clarified how. E.V.A. also appeared in that story, which takes place after this one, so it’s unclear where she is at this point.

Wolverine also survived the self-destruction of E.V.A. in Weapon X (2002) #25, and this issue reveals that Agent Zero did too, but it hasn’t been explained how so far.

It’s weird to see Mesmero again. In his last appearance in Weapon X (2002) #10, he had been sent to the Neverland concentration camps by Director Malcolm Colcord, as he didn’t seem to be worthy on the team anymore. Mesmero had lost the confidence needed to control his powers thanks to his mother’s earlier death.

The Director first started having weird conversations with Wolverine (who’s just in Colcord’s head and not actually appearing next to him) in Weapon X (2002) #22. It’s also the issue in which he and Madison start building their army of Sentinels. He never wore the facemask before, though.

Wolverine’s, Fantomex’ and Agent Zero’s adventures in Roanoke can be found in Weapon X (2002) #23-25. The flashback about E.V.A.’s crash also happened in that story.

Sept 2005

Marvel

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2005

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United States

$2.99

Modern Age

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5 Issue Limited Series

Days of Future Now

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