LOOK OUT! IT'S X-FORCE!!!

Oh, look! Another Number One! And this time it has an X in the title! Goody!

So once again X-Force has been resurrected for another run. This time around Ed Brisson is writing, with some interesting art from Dylan Burnett. Strap in for some hard edged graphic fun! These comics ain't for kids! Look out!

X-Force is the wetworks division of the X-Men. This is the team that takes out threats with a little more finality than the baseline X-Men would be comfortable with. (Black Widow would approve.). My favourite runs on this title have been the Kyle/Yost era and the Rick Remender era, the latter being one of the best runs on a title ever.  In fact, if X-Force never came back, the Remender era would a great high point to go out on.

But I'll give anything a chance. So this new take hews pretty close to what we'd expect from X-Force. The team is a mix of hardcore characters (Deathlok, Domino, Warpath, Shatterstar) and ones who maybe stumbled into the team by opening the wrong door and are too embarrassed to  leave,(Cannonball, Boom Boom.)

Yes, Boom Boom.

We know early on that the team is hard as fuck because they torture some mutant hating terrorists, where Domino informs them that they are 'the mutants you're terrified of'. A little on the nose. I mean, aren't the black variants on the X-Men costumes enough to let you know how hard they are?

The story spins out of an X-Men mini-series I haven't read (Extermination, apparently), with the team assembled to take out Kid Cable, who murderized the old Cable. While investigating, the team discovers some time travel business, weird guns, and a country in a grimy corner of Eastern Europe that may not be as kind to mutants as they keep telling the world that they are.

It's an enjoyable story, and you know it's X-FORCE!!! because we saw a few heads blown apart by bullets. If that's not enough hardcore for you, there is also a real shitty Bulgarian hotel room.

The second story in this issue deals with Boom Boom having slept through the team's departure time and running into the previously tortured mutant hating terrorists in New York. It's a fun bit, with a much cleaner art style by Juanan Ramirez.

All in all, a good launch of Marvel's hardest team. And I actually liked a story with Boom Boom. Wonders, cease, etc.