Hello Mr. Casey, hope you're having a great day. I just recently found out that you had a Substack here and I decided to subscribe to it, mostly because I'm an X-Fan and (like you said your second newsletter) I was surprised that you were returning to Marvel and the X-Books again.
I had no idea that you came up with the "Weapon X-Men" name by yourself. When I first heard of the title, I thought that this was Marvel just taking a pre-existing team name and refurbishing with a minor edit, since there used to be a short-lived X-Team in the comics that called themselves "Weapon X-Force" (after previously calling themselves "Weapon X" to take back the name from the original Weapon X). But it's a good name and one that I am in favor of seeing more of, especially with that team lineup (Thunderbird!).
I personally suspect that it could have been someone at Marvel's marketing team who decided to rename the other miniseries to "Weapon X-Men", probably because the miniseries starred a bunch of alternate Wolverines. Which of course, while it does make sense it's a very douche move by whoever greenlighted the decision.
Hello Mr. Casey, hope you're having a great day. I just recently found out that you had a Substack here and I decided to subscribe to it, mostly because I'm an X-Fan and (like you said your second newsletter) I was surprised that you were returning to Marvel and the X-Books again.
I had no idea that you came up with the "Weapon X-Men" name by yourself. When I first heard of the title, I thought that this was Marvel just taking a pre-existing team name and refurbishing with a minor edit, since there used to be a short-lived X-Team in the comics that called themselves "Weapon X-Force" (after previously calling themselves "Weapon X" to take back the name from the original Weapon X). But it's a good name and one that I am in favor of seeing more of, especially with that team lineup (Thunderbird!).
I personally suspect that it could have been someone at Marvel's marketing team who decided to rename the other miniseries to "Weapon X-Men", probably because the miniseries starred a bunch of alternate Wolverines. Which of course, while it does make sense it's a very douche move by whoever greenlighted the decision.
I think “Weapon X-Men” was used in a line of dialogue earlier in that series as well.