Decent artwork and some fantastic characters some of which are under utilised. I think what let's this down is the over convoluted and far fetched plot. The odds they are against are ridiculous and whenever I read an x-men storyline they seem to forget they are amongst other characters in a wider marvel universe. They need to reign it in a bit sonny Jim, fer fucks sake.

This is such a great reboot to the X-force series. It's gritty, bloody, and not short on violence which is to be expected when wolverine is the team leader.

Reverend Matthew Risman has killed mutants and more recently infiltrated a SHIELD complex, killed a bunch of agents and stole some crazy unknown item. Cyclops is fed up and has the X-force put back together to go and kill this guy. Of course that simple plan doesn’t go down that easy. Once the mission gets under way, it’s all goes sideways and now they have a whole new can of worms to deal with. A simple kill order has now turned into a rescue mission, Warren Worthington going ape shit, a battle...

This book seems like it was custom built around Wolverine's stated skill set: he's really good at killing people in really violent ways, and can be really sneaky when he's getting ready to do it. Back when Cyclops and Wolverine were still speaking to each other, Cyke put Wolverine in charge of this version of X-Force, a sort of genocidal maniac hit squad. After all, there are an awful lot of people running around the Marvel universe with really high mutant body counts, and nobody but the mutants...

Ooh... there it is! For me the key output of the Messiah Complex was 25 years in the making the real X-Force! Covert, black-ops, permission to kill... many times. Cyclops created, Wolverine run, mission one - The Purifiers. Dark panels, limited text, some nice surprises and lots and lots of gore and blood. I don't know if it's very good, or just very graphic... but it gets a very solid 8 out of 12 from me.

If I can give it 1000 stars, I would give it.Fantastic and murderous.Blood... Everywhere...

Story Synopsis: (view spoiler)[After Matthew Risman – leader of the Purifiers – infiltrates a S.H.I.E.L.D. base and steals what can only be assumed as a very dangerous object, killing several S.H.I.E.L.D. agents in the process. At Angel's Aerie – or Angel's home located in the Colorado Rocky Mountains – Cyclops updates Wolverine on these events. Cyclops explains that the only way the Purifiers have been able to accomplish so much against mutants without being noticed by S.H.I.E.L.D., is that the...

X-Force returns with a roster featuring Warpath, Wolverine, Rahne Sinclair and X-23, some of my favourite X-Characters! Unfortunately, despite the solid premise and line-up, this book fails to do anything interesting. Continuing some stories set up from X-Men: Messiah CompleX, X-Force attempts to show a darker version of the X-Universe. With plenty of blood, murder and guts. However, there is so much of said blood, murder and guts that the "adult" tone they were going for is completely and unint...

Special Forces from the X-Men sets out to deal with Purifiers and others that mean harm to X-Men. The artwork is crowded which makes me think they had a budget. Works against the story. OVERALL GRADE: C plus to B minus.

I'm on a little X-Men kick today! So X-Force. The series I've been meaning to check out but took forever to get to. I finally sat down and began reading volume 1 and at first, I'll be honest, it wasn't clicking with me. I love X23, like wolvie, like Warpath, so I enjoyed the characters but the story was hoping all over the place. However, once it began to settle down and got to see the plot for what it was, which is pieces of religious shits trying to hurt our characters, I was getting in to it....

As dark as the X-Men Universe gets!The mutants need protectors who aren't hesitant to cross the line, and that's why the X-Force exists. Lead by Wolverine, their mission is to deal with the Purifers, a religious radical group determined to wipe out mutant kind. Wolverine has walked on the dark side, along with X-23, but Wolverine wants better for her, a chance to be normal, instead of the cloned killing machine she was designed and trained to be. But Cyclops puts her to work despite Wolverine's

Ah, the beauty of actually reading a volume and knowing what happened beforehand so you have a miniscule percent of trouble realising what is happening.#blessI want to thank the girl who posted her reading guideline on the X-Men universe and build a shrine on her honour.And I want to state that this volume was bloody, brutal and filled with gore and battles.I liked it! A lot.And I can't wait to read the other volumes (both from X-Force and the other recommended titles from the guide).#thumbsup

Here's a little something new for this review: from a little less than half way through I began to live blog it. So there are a few spoilers, and some bad words, but here are my thoughts on this comic as it unfolded to me: Warpath: I'll do whatever it takes to get Rahne back... but you and Logan... how can you both be so indifferent to all this BLOOD?X-23: I do not understand your question.Warpath: Never mind. AAAAAAH This is so dark! THE CHICK JUST TURNED INTO A WEREWOLF AND IS EATING ANGEL! [c...

X-Men? More like NC-17 Men amirite?Quite the horror comic approach, with a heavy reliance on the 25+ years of X-Men lore that I managed to miss.(To me, Archangel was a mere sketch in John Byrne's notebook)All told, I liked it more than I thought I would, but the over the top blood and guts aesthetic was aimed at a different kind of comics fan.

After the Purifiers attacked and robbed a SHIELD base, Cyclops reinstitutes X-Force. Their orders are to do whatever it takes to eliminate the problem.X-Force is the X-Men's shadowy sibling. It walks in the dark while the X-Men walk in the light. There is no action X-Force won't take. The group is primarily composed of Wolverine, Warpath, and X-23. The X-Men's greatest hunters and killers sent to do what they do best. The author chose an easy target with the Purifiers to gain them sympathy beca...

Oh my god, I love this title. Why the hell didn’t I start buying it when it came out? I have no idea! But I love it!This is the line the X-Men never would cross, but Cyclops has finally realized that there are things that just need to be done. Nasty things like revenge and torture and murder, things that he wouldn’t put on any of the X-Men’s hands, but if they have to be done… what do you do?You call Wolverine, of course.I love Wolverine’s conscience; he knows he’s damaged goods and will happily...

This is an X-World classic and the creative team did it without being quirky, meta or Claremont wordy.Just a warning that this is very dark and violent

This was cool. I've always liked the idea of a team made up of the more vicious X-Men, the ones that will cross the line when needed. Let's face it, with some of the evil characters gunning for the X-Men sometimes more extreme measures are needed. And this team is cool, and I love the black and gray costumes too.This is pretty much as dark as the X-Men get, with a group of anti-mutant religious terrorists resurrecting dead X-Men villains in order to kill more mutants. So we get Wolverine, X-23,

2018Just wanted to re-read this and make sure it still belonged on my Favorites list.Yep! It's still one of the best overall X-titles I've read and you great for anyone who wants to dip their toes into the dark side of the mutant Marvel world. Original review: 2014Per some conversations with Jeff, I've come to realize that libraries (at least mine and his) have an overabundance of both Green Lantern and X-Men titles.And for some unfathomable reason, I keep picking up the GL titles, even though I...

A far cry from the sarcastic and clever version of Milligan and Allred, and it disappoints me that they don't acknowledge that series. This is something very different. Dark and savage, and of course, fun! This stuff gets into the dark and wonderful gray areas of morality, that in a sense the X-Men books and their offspring are known for. But this series takes a more realistic approach to the some of the more vicious mutants of or related to the X-Men. And with less of the sanitized portrayals o...