What makes the order interesting is that readers met the X-Man first and got this part of his past much later.

What makes the order interesting is that readers met the X-Man first and got this part of his past much later. By 1991, you've already seen Logan make plenty of decisions, good and bad. You've seen him get angry, help people, fall in love and try to teach Kitty. Then Weapon X goes back to a time when other people are trying to decide what he's going to be used for. It also gives some extra weight to him refusing to be told that he belongs to somebody. His government background was already a problem in the earlier X-Men stories. Here, the idea of being treated as property gets taken a lot further. The program wants something useful that obeys. The reader knows the man can have friends, relationships and a life well beyond what they're trying to do with him. So even though the story answers a major question about the adamantium, there's a lot more going on than explaining how the metal got there. You're seeing how much damage was done to Logan along the way, including things that a body healing itself isn't going to simply erase.