Part of Christopher Yost and Craig Kyle’s mission statement for their third generation of X-Force was to counter criticisms of decompressed storytelling, promising to pack more plot into each issue than seen during their New X-Men days. True to their words, this first arc has proceeded with considerable pace, but even at the end of [...]

“Do you want to review Divided We Stand?” asked James. “Because it’s composed of several stand-alone X-Men stories, it should be quite easy to dip into.”
“Yeah, alright,” says I, little realising how hard it is to adequately cover a 40-page anthology issue within our customary review length. But what the hey. After all, as a [...]

Since I criticised last week’s Uncanny issue for not being a more direct sequel to Messiah Complex, I should probably praise X-Force for being just that. Cyclops comes to Wolverine and asks him to reassemble X-Force and go after the Purifiers - definitely a dangling plot thread from the crossover - and reluctantly, he does. The idea is [...]

An incredibly odd title comes to an incredibly odd end as the penultimate and otherwise unremarkable part of a crossover. I have to admit, were I a big fan of New X-Men, I might feel a bit short changed. As it is, I can’t get too worked up, not least because the rumours of a [...]