Weapon X #9 actually came out last week, but I didn't get it in time to review it.

This is part 3 of "The Underground", but in fact there's not much of the Underground in it.  It's more about political manoeuvring within Weapon X, crossed with a subplot about Washout going back to visit his home neighbourhood before dying.

By the standards of this book, it's okay.  It's readable enough.  I find it difficult to work up any interest for the in-fighting in this series simply because most of the characters either haven't been established properly or change personality from month to month according to what's convenient for the scene they're presently appearing in.  For example, this month Aurora is apparently happily buying into the Weapon X Project's claim that it's doing nothing remotely dodgy at Neverland; how she can possibly think she's working for an innocent government project in the light of what she's seen there is difficult to imagine, but it seems that's the new orthodoxy for this month.

Washout's return to his neighbourhood is presumably supposed to present us with some sort of thematic parallels to last month's story with the death of Mesmero's mother.  He's a character who hasn't been given much to do so he's at least enough of a blank slate to work in this rather generic role.  What this stuff about parent figures has to do with anything else in the series, I have no clue.

Unexceptional stuff.

Rating: B-

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