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Well let me preface this by saying that the Kyle and Yost X-Force was (insert single tear rolling down cheek, sad Native American style) one of (if not my absolute) favorite books being produced. I loved the plots, dialogue, intrigue, the action, and the beautifully rendered buckets of blood splashed on every other page...hell they even made The Vanisher cool!

 This book is NOT at all like the Kyle & Yost series. I've never been a fan of Rick Remender. He seems to want to make everything (for lack of a better term) "Big and Super Hero-ey". What was originally conceived as a covert black ops unit (in the previous incarnation) now wants to take on the omega level threat of Apocalypse.

Were I not such a huge fan of the previous X-Force series, maybe I wouldn't judge this one so harshly, but I did not like it at all. I found the dialogue to be stiff and at times ridiculous. The character's motivations seem very contrived (if Angel really wanted to destroy Apocalypse, wouldn't he call out the entire X-Family to confront him?) 

On the positive side the art by Jerome Opena (whose work I am not at all familiar with) was pretty cool. He's got a nice dynamic style that suits an action book. The scenes were characters were just talking did seem a tad bit stiff at times, but I don't imagine that this will be a series with a lot of people standing around and talking.

I guess I get Marvel wanting to take the X-Force concept and open it up to a wider audience by making it bigger and more Super Hero-ey, but reading this just makes me miss the old series. Well at least I have the hardcover of Sex & Violence to look forward to.