I really like Chamber as a character and I’m not even sure why. I think the fact that he’s like Cyclops only with his mouth is funny, tragic, and weird all at the same time.
My enjoyment of Chamber notwithstanding, this is a Weapon X story arc so it’s not quite the Chamber-focused story I would have liked. Still, for this series, this is probably the best story arc so far.
Chamber is jealous of the fact that his ex-GF Husk is now dating Angel so he gets drunk and gets mad and, when he won’t calm down, Wolverine knocks him out and gives him to the cops.
So, right out the gate, we’re in a story that makes no sense. Chamber has never shown this kind of emotional ferocity and Wolverine would never, EVER give a young student over to the police just because the kid got drunk and lost his temper.
Once behind bars, Brent Jackson, the new director of Weapon X, personally visits him and offers him a “get out of jail free” card if he’ll work with Weapon X. Chamber figures that Wolverine just had him arrested so, why not?
IN JAIL
The program is able to mute Chamber’s powers, so that he can see his own chin again.
HA
Director Jackson begins interrogating Chamber–to learn about the X-Men–and Chamber doesn’t want to give up information (especially about Husk). Jackson tells Chamber that he has to prove his loyalty by taking a covert mission to assassinate John Sublime, who was a loyalist of the former Weapon X director and apparently is still trying to get the program back under his own control.
Of course Chamber is meeting secretly with Wolverine. The whole thing was a set up so he could be a double agent. That’s revealed to the reader in issue #17, if the reader wasn’t smart enough to realize that Wolverine would never, EVER give a mutant up to the cops just for being drunk. The two meet at a late night showing of Casablanca and they talk during the movie.
PIC
So rude.
Logan tells Chamber that Sublime deserves to die (Sublime was part of the original experiments that created Wolverine), and it will help embed Chamber into the Weapon X program, but Jono isn’t eager to become a killer.
Chamber takes the job but when he has the chance to kill Sublime, he pauses–and Sublime’s U-Men capture him.
Big finale: Rather than being rescued by the X-Men, it’s the Weapon X program that invades the U-Men’s base and gets Chamber back. The fact that he was nearly killed by Sublime instills the required trust from Director Jackson, and so this arc ends with Chamber still serving as a double agent.