X-FORCE #18

Review by: akamuu

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At a time where most of the mainstream Marvel books have fallen victim to a poorly conceived company-wide coloring strategy, X-Force remains a visually striking comic.    Everything is clean and to the point.

I’m relieved that, in this issue, the writing is also clean and to the point.  I’m not certain if Kyle & Yost intended their first post-Messiah War issue to be as disorienting as it was.  But, if that was the case, it was an interesting artistic choice.  I totally missed who Wolfsbane was with.  I read “Warren Worthington’s Aerie” and my brain processed that to mean she was with Warren.  So, when Warren popped up in New York with X-Force, but not Wolfsbane, I was totally baffled.  I’m still not entirely clear on what’s going on in her storyline, but I’ll go back and read some pre-Messiah War issues and try to catch back up.

This story merges the current X-Force line up: Wolverine, Warpath, Domino, Archangel, X-23 and Wolfsbane with Boom-Boom and the surviving New X-Men (all of whom have been slowly edging their way into this title): Surge, Hellion, and Elixir.  And now…well, there’s some great developments in this issue.  A nice back from the dead appearance, and a back from obscurity appearance.  And a hilarious gravestone that I hope isn’t a foreshadowing of a creative team change.

There’s also a great Wolverine/Cyclops/Beast scene that reminds me how lacking the other mainstream X-books are right now when it comes to entertaining and logical character interaction.

Story: 4 - Very Good
Art: 5 - Excellent

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  1. great review, couldn’t agree more.

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