X-FORCE #2
Written by Christopher Yost & Craig Kyle
Art by Clayton Crain
Cyclops. Skrull. No question now. "Her mission was to eliminate Matthew Risman, not perform a search and rescue. The situation with Rahne is your doing, Logan. Not hers. So if anything happens to her now, it's on you." Cyclops forms kill crew, sends people to murder people and then blames person he told last about the mission for anything that goes wrong. Right, this isn't the Cyclops I know and I refuse to believe he's not a Skrull. And it's not just the book that portrays him like this. All the X-titles have been doing it.
Cyclops douchebaggery aside, I think this is the best post-MC X-title, which is really shocking considering the characters involved. It's very much a 90's style book with over the top violence, which is quite bloody all things considered, and a cast full of Wolverine-like clones and one honest to God real Wolverine clone.
The Rahne 'execution' was an obvious cop out from last issue. Daddy issues and all that. This ends up resulting in a bigger bloodbath as X-Force paint the base red with blood. Bastion's back and his plan is to resurrect Magus, the old New Mutants villain who's at the bottom of the ocean. I can see how people view this as upstaging Annihilation Conquest, as Magus is leader of the Technarchy and the Phalanx are basically failed and inferior Technarchy, making Wolverine and Team Claw's villain technically a bigger threat than the one ravaging the galaxy. Personally, it doesn't bother me and this was a villain that didn't even require Wolverine to beat the first time, just a bunch of kids. The timing could have been a little better, but I don't see the big deal over it.
Moving right along, I liked the mini-focus on X-23 this issue and Wolverine's thoughts on how this is a slippery slope for these characters in terms of all the killing. The book skirts the line between extreme 90's gratuity with the character based storytelling mixed in and it's really growing on me.
Verdict - Check It
Written by Christopher Yost & Craig Kyle
Art by Clayton Crain
Cyclops. Skrull. No question now. "Her mission was to eliminate Matthew Risman, not perform a search and rescue. The situation with Rahne is your doing, Logan. Not hers. So if anything happens to her now, it's on you." Cyclops forms kill crew, sends people to murder people and then blames person he told last about the mission for anything that goes wrong. Right, this isn't the Cyclops I know and I refuse to believe he's not a Skrull. And it's not just the book that portrays him like this. All the X-titles have been doing it.
Cyclops douchebaggery aside, I think this is the best post-MC X-title, which is really shocking considering the characters involved. It's very much a 90's style book with over the top violence, which is quite bloody all things considered, and a cast full of Wolverine-like clones and one honest to God real Wolverine clone.
The Rahne 'execution' was an obvious cop out from last issue. Daddy issues and all that. This ends up resulting in a bigger bloodbath as X-Force paint the base red with blood. Bastion's back and his plan is to resurrect Magus, the old New Mutants villain who's at the bottom of the ocean. I can see how people view this as upstaging Annihilation Conquest, as Magus is leader of the Technarchy and the Phalanx are basically failed and inferior Technarchy, making Wolverine and Team Claw's villain technically a bigger threat than the one ravaging the galaxy. Personally, it doesn't bother me and this was a villain that didn't even require Wolverine to beat the first time, just a bunch of kids. The timing could have been a little better, but I don't see the big deal over it.
Moving right along, I liked the mini-focus on X-23 this issue and Wolverine's thoughts on how this is a slippery slope for these characters in terms of all the killing. The book skirts the line between extreme 90's gratuity with the character based storytelling mixed in and it's really growing on me.
Verdict - Check It
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