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The Weapon (comics) The Weapon (comics) The Weapon was a martial arts/superhero comic book published by Platinum Studios in 2007. It was written by Fred Van Lente and illustrated by Scott Koblish. "The Weapon" was released as a limited series from June–September 2007. Martial arts enthusiast Tommy Zhou invented a means to create solid objects from light—and invented a superhero persona to promote it:The Weapon. He even concocted an origin story for himself based on ancient Chinese legends, his grandfather told him as a child. What Tommy never suspected, though, were that his grandfather's legends were real—and now an all-too real millennia-old assassin