Earlier today in an interview on Comic Book Resources, Rick Remender confirmed that the Final Execution storyline would be his last on Uncanny X-Force, teaming up with artist Phil Noto. This doesn’t come as a surprise since we’ve been made abundantly aware that Remender was moving onto bigger and better things with Marvel NOW! by writing the flagship title Uncanny Avengers along with taking the writing reins on Captain America.
For those living under a rock, Remender delivered one of the best runs of his entire career on Uncanny X-Force nearly 2 years ago as he took an unlikely premise of an “X-Men death squad” and turned it into one of the must reads book from Marvel Comics. While this moves marks an end of an era, Remender sums it up well in the interview:
It was a very tough decision to make and it came down to a conversation I had about it with Kieron Gillen about how long I would stay past this. He said, “Know when to get off the stage.” That’s something that we maybe overlook… I feel like this final story, which I’m very excited and have been building towards for a while now, pretty much wraps up everything we’ve been doing. It says everything I wanted to say about a kill squad while also really digging into the X-Universe that I loved so much as a kid growing up. So it really did come down to the fact that it was time to get off the stage.
I’m sure I speak for everyone at iFanboy as well as many of you as we say: Thank you Rick Remender for an excellent run and we look forward to what comes next.
So what comes next for X-Force? Well it appears that we’ll be finding out any day now as Marvel prepares to unveil the next wave of Marvel NOW! titles after a barrage of teasers last week. I gotta say, a Sam Humphries written Uncanny X-Force would be a ton of fun, wouldn’t it?
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I assumed Daniel Way would follow up Rick Remender because of his Deadpool tie-in.
Sad day, this was truly one of the best books at Marvel but all good things must come to an end.
Maybe one day we can get this whole run in Omnibus form? Living the dream…
That’s not too unlikely and one I’d definitely pick up, this has been one of the best runs in all of comics in the past cpl years as far as I’m concerned. “Know when to get off the stage” is perfect and look forward to Remender’s new runs and if Sam Humphries takes over Uncanny X-Force I won’t be dropping it.
Damn. I was afraid of this.
Uncanny X-Force has been consistently amazing, I’m very sad to see it end.
Thankyou, Rick Remender, for your stellar work on this title.
NOOOOOOO!
Lol frigging marvel just begging me to stop buying their books. Good job pie heads.
Did you read the article? This is more about Rick knowing to quit when he’s ahead than a Marvel mandate. I’m sure Marvel would have liked him to stay on this book even longer.
Sure, but the Marvel/DC style of these relatively short runs does hurt interest for some readers, like myself. You know whatever you’re interested in probably won’t last 40 or 50 issues. Tough to compete with say John Wagner on Judge Dredd since 1977.
35 issues is still a pretty good size run…i liken it to that incredible part of your favorite song….some pop artists stretch it out forever & wear it out, but the best artists don’t dwell on anything, for fear of stagnating….do you want an album full of the same break down? Eventually you’ve worn it out & lose all the magic of that first time, so i’m glad remender’s moving on, he’s on a hot streak right now, and anything else he jumps on will be all the better for it
I’m a quality and quantity guy, myself. My favorite band is Motorhead.
Love this book. I hope we see an omnibus collection before too long.
+1 for an omnibus. I bought the first arc digitally a while back and loved the crap out of it. That plus the the rave reviews made me decide to hold off for the inevitable (please!) omnibus collection of the whole instant-classic run. 35 issues isn’t too big, right?
I think there are a lot of omnibi that are over 35 issues.
At least Simonson’s Thor omnibus is.
I’d almost join a kill squad for an omnibus of Remender’s run on this book.
Brubaker’s Captain America Omnibu’s clock in at 50 issues.
Plenty of huge omnibus’s so this one is likely to see print…..The Invisibles (huge), New X-Men (huge), Infinite Crisis (huge), soon to be huge 52, the Brubaker Cap and Walt Simonson Thor mentioned above and think Secret Warriors is pretty big too…I didn’t research the issue count but know 35 issues isn’t a problem.
I love Omni’s but I’m not the biggest fan of the HUGE ones. The Thor Omni and X-Statix Omni are over 1200 pages and they’re sort of pain to read. I’d prefer it be split into 2 Omni’s personally, although the logistics of that may be hard to do. I’m hoping they do something simliar with Hickman’s FF, where it comes out over a couple of omni’s instead of one ridiculous one.
Personally, my fav size for trades is the 12ish issue omnibuses. 35 issues would such a thick heavy brick, not really my style. But then again, some like the 50 issue bricks… ha can you even see the center of the pages?
Thanks for the great stories Rick.
You made me consistantly look forward to something with Deadpool in it.
Cant wait for the likely two-part omnibi
I’d like one big volume but at this point I’d even take just a few oversized hardcovers.
I dropped this after the dark angel saga. I’m surprised it went on this long. I hope Uncanny Avengers won’t be this weak.
I’m tempted to tell you not to bother with Uncanny Avengers if you didn’t like Uncanny X-Force.
I dropped the series after The Dark Angel Saga too, but wouldn’t dare it ‘weak.’ It just wasn’t for me, and that’s okay. I’m hoping Uncanny Avengers hits a sweeter spot.
I agree with ScorpionMasada and am gonna say you probably won’t like Uncanny Avengers but also know good writers can take stories on with a whole new feel and remind you nothing of they’re previous works….on another note, what are you guys reading that’s so great this is “weak”? No offense, to each their own but am just curious.
The post Dark Angel Saga storyline was not the best, but the book really kicked back into high gear after they left Captain Britain and Otherworld. If you liked Dark Angel Saga, you should be checking out the Final Execution story. It’s been really good.
So sad to see Rick leave the book, but I’m happy for all his success.
I wonder what this means for Secret Avengers.
He said on twitter that his last issue of Secret Avengers was 37
:'(
Finally confirmed he’s done in December. One of my favorite Marvel books. I’ll miss this book dearly. I’ll definitely follow you to Uncanny Avengers since it literally replaces Uncanny X-force for me. With Cap and Uncanny Avengers, he’ll still produce good stories. For people wondering about Secret Avengers, he is leaving the book around issue 37.
oh yeah, plus he’s carrying over a lot of his themes from that book, like apocalypse, kang is going to play into that story too, there’s a great article on comicbookresources.com right now where he goes through a lot of what’s gonna happen if you haven’t seen that yet
One of the top Marvel books of the last two years. If they put out an Omnibus I’ll snap it up immediately.
Well kinda saw this one coming but still disappointing news. Like others have said, I’ll definetly pick up an Omnibus if they put one out.
I’m sad to see him go on this one. With dropping this and Secret Avengers do you think he will pick up another Marvel book? Is he exclusive or could this mean an Image book might be in his near future?
Remender is scheduled for Captain America and Uncanny Avengers in the Marvel Now books. He is pretty much taking over Brubaker’s spot as Marvel’s top writers since Brubaker is leaving to do more created own stuff.
i hope he grabs at least one more….since they’ve said there will be 2 x-force books, and brevoort said that breakout solo stars might get their own book, and from some parts in remenders interview on cbr where he said that his is only act 2 of kid apocalypse’s story, i think either he or fantomex might get a solo book….doesn’t look like remender’s doing it either way, but he’s used to doin 3 ongoings at marvel so hopefully he can pull off one more for now….still got about 3 months worth of solicits to see
Damn one of my favorite books period. This is a sad day indeed. But i agree Sam Humphries would be a great fit.
What I really want to know is will marvel ever again be able to put out a new series that can actually make it to 100+ issues? I don’t think so. Too many panic buttons in the house of ideas.
That’s just not the reality of comics anymore, on either side of the aisle.
Well it does sound like the series will continue after Remender, so it is possible for it to get to #100, though maybe not probable.
IGN is reporting an editor said the series ends with remender.
thats ign though….
It’s probably going to end and then relaunch under Marvel Now! I’m thinking maybe without the “Uncanny” considering that’s moving with Remender. That’s just my guess though.
It works for companies other than Marvel and DC, I think the big two benefit from not feeling the need to explode everything every year or two.
Big two *would* benefit I mean. Long runs make for trades that make more sense, as well as just potential for better stuff artistically.
I never read this book, bu to damn that is on great age up there!
Jumped on with issue 12, and never regretted it for a second. Not sure if I’ll stick around after this. Depends on the talent involved. But still, what a ride. Thanks, Rick.
Can’t wait for Uncanny Avengers.
I couldn’t read past the first arc…
Pretty solid length for Marvel. That said, this is the main reason Marvel and DC can’t match the competition for me, we almost never get long runs, especially in recent years. Lasting four years and having 50 issues like say Darkhawk used to be the minimum for a notable run for me.
Thanks, Rick. Got every floppy damn issue of this run. One of my favorites of all time. It tops Bru’s first 25 issues of Cap, dude, and that’s awesome.
Man, I’m glad that he’s going out on a high note and on his own terms, but I am going to miss picking this book up twice a month every month. Usually I notice a drop off in quality with double shipped books but Remender has been so consistently good with this it’s ridiculous.
I’m dropping FF and F4 when Hickman is done. With this gone too, I’ll be completely out of Marvel. I dropped Wolverine and The X-Men once AvX reared it’s ugly head in there. Granted, I’m slowly turning away from superhero comics, anyway, but I’d read more Marvel if they were more like X-Force has been, self contained and great. But yeah, Humphries would be great on this.
This has been such a consistently great book throughout Remender’s run. It’s a shame it’s ending, but if he feels like this is the best place to wrap things up, who are we to argue?
I’m very excited for his Avengers book, he’s proved he can write brilliant team books and if it’s half as good as his X-Force run, it’ll be excellent.