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 [...]

Every Wednesday we take turns to delve into our trusty longboxes, pluck out a dusty back issue, and give you our thoughts. We’ll also try and place it in the context of the time it was originally published.
With the new series of X-Force riding high on the charts, it almost feels like the 1990s again. [...]

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 [...]