Attention Misters Kyle and Yost.

Please stop assuming everyone reading X-Force and all X-titles (including this one) you write have an intimate and deep familiarity with every mutant that has ever been created. For instance, maybe I haven’t read any Alpha Flight since 1986 and all I know of Madison Jeffries is what Matt Fraction has told me (i.e., not much). I don’t know who Diamond Lil is or what happened between her and Jeffries. Hell, if I wasn’t reading X-force I wouldn’t even know how she died and maybe not even then, because her death over there was definitely that of a Star Trek red shirt. Look, I love the endless variety of mutants and their intricate and ridiculously complicated back stories. I really do. But even I, who have read a lot X-men over the years, get confused. I imagine the average reader is even worse off. Just use a panel or two to toss a few tidbits our way to fill in the gaps. Then I might care about their deaths. PS – Don’t take this the wrong way. I think you guys are awesome and should be writing Uncanny.

End Letter.

The first story about Damage and Armor was awesome, both story and art, right up until the last 3-4 panels when Armor did an ridiculously rapid about face and became buddy buddy with her mortal enemy. Second story (Anole) was blah. Third was good and could have been great if I knew who the hell Lil was or what had happened to them. Fourth was silly fluff.