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X-Force (2019)
X-Force, Vol. 9
Collects X-FORCE (2020) #47-50.
The final battle between X-Force and the Beast! In the aftermath of shocking revelations about Colossus and the Beast, X-Force must regroup. Before they tackle their next mission, they marshal their forces at a remote new base. But if the harsh arctic environment doesn't do them in, Orchis just might! Then, at long last, X-Force takes their fight straight to Henry McCoy - and he will answer for his many crimes! In a simpler time, the bounding Beast used to partner up with his fellow Avenger Wonder Man! But after Hank's frightening fall from grace, is there any chance these two can still see eye to eye? In a last desperate attempt to take down the Beast, X-Force will witness the return of… the Beast?! As the team confronts Hank with their secret weapon, brace yourself for the final reckoning!
The final battle between X-Force and the Beast! In the aftermath of shocking revelations about Colossus and the Beast, X-Force must regroup. Before they tackle their next mission, they marshal their forces at a remote new base. But if the harsh arctic environment doesn't do them in, Orchis just might! Then, at long last, X-Force takes their fight straight to Henry McCoy - and he will answer for his many crimes! In a simpler time, the bounding Beast used to partner up with his fellow Avenger Wonder Man! But after Hank's frightening fall from grace, is there any chance these two can still see eye to eye? In a last desperate attempt to take down the Beast, X-Force will witness the return of… the Beast?! As the team confronts Hank with their secret weapon, brace yourself for the final reckoning!
112 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 25, 2024
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Benjamin Percy
791 books1,205 followersBenjamin Percy is the author of seven novels -- most recently The Sky Vault (William Morrow) -- three short fiction collections, and a book of essays, Thrill Me, that is widely taught in creative writing classrooms. He writes Wolverine, X-Force, and Ghost Rider for Marvel Comics. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in Esquire (where he is a contributing editor), GQ, Time, Men's Journal, Outside, the Wall Street Journal, Tin House, and the Paris Review. His honors include an NEA fellowship, the Whiting Writer's Award, the Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, the iHeart Radio Award for Best Scripted Podcast, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics.
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November 27, 2025
It's the final arc of the ongoing rationalised derangement of the Beast, that appears anything but rationale. In a nod to Marvel, I will admit that the walk from Beast to Dark Beast has been well paced across numerous books and writers. The culmination of four years and 50 issues of season five of X-Force, and this is all I get? The moment 'clone Beast' appeared I knew that even my lowish expectations would not be met. A Two Star, 5 out of 12 read. I did appreciate Wonderman guesting :D
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July 12, 2024
A hasty, forced volume that brings to a rather miserable conclusion what was one of the most significant - and controversial - personality changes of a major character.
All to end up like this? So sad and so probably retconned in the near future...
All to end up like this? So sad and so probably retconned in the near future...
June 18, 2024
The only book that lasted the majority of the Krakoa era is over, and hoooooo-boy was it something. This book was the lesser version of Chuck Austen’s X-Men without any of the bizarre twists that made it so memorable. This book was always about Krakoa but no other writers acknowledged its plots in the other books unless absolutely necessary (Colossus joining the Quiet council, Hank McCoy dead). In fact, even characters from the X-Force series never address things that happened to them personally in other books (Wolverine’s whole ordeal which also took place in his own book, for example). I’m not sure if Percy just didn’t want to work with the other writers as they changed in the Krakoa era, or if the original plans for the series never happened, but damn it I read the whole run I felt nothing but apathy by the time it was over.
So overall, what worked, what did not work, and what is actually memorable in its bizarre-ness?
What worked:
-It started out with a very interesting premise, and sometimes it actually worked. In the era of Krakoa, x-force still was a team that did the dirty work, but this time the dirty work was less the stabbing type and more the dirty work of getting rid of threats in a variety of manners. The book starts out interesting in that regard.
-Colossus’s storyline, while nothing too new for the character, gave him something to do in the Krakoa era and actually had an impact on the plot
-Lesser-known characters and unlikely x-folk as a part of the team-Sage, Black Tom Cassidy, and Omega Red were pretty neat additions and used for the most part pretty well.
What did not work:
-Hank McCoy. Oh my gosh, there is an x-editor who hates Beast for some reason? His character arc was more just like…he became too arrogant for his own good? He just really was like, cool I will throw my moral scruples away? Hank over the past decade has taken the role of scapegoat that Xavier has always had in x-books and in fandom, based on editorial choices and character decisions. I think the moment he became expendable was when he and Scott were no longer friends and everyone eventually started to say, isn’t he an asshole more frequently and it became true? X-Force’s Beast felt like an over-the-top culmination of that vision for no real well-thought out reason then they needed a bad guy. The book was weirdly obsessed with Beast just digging into the evil intellectual villain versus the average bub Wolverine type, and it’s like…sure okay. The fact they had to bring back Beast with his New Defenders personality makes anything with the character pointless. Nothing mattered, nothing was gained, and overall, I kind of think this is something no one is going to refer to in the rise from the ashes era.
-Deadpool was there for no good reason.
-overall, what threats did they stop? They had orchis right there and I am pretty sure x-force just kind of…did very little beyond stabbing with regard to that problem. In fact, many threats seemed kind of pointless because they were never acknowledged outside of the Percy books.
-Sage’s drinking problem-It was introduced and escalated. It was such an afterschool special type problem that was resolved quickly.
-Domino had the personality of a block. She went through trauma and got a tree arm. Then she was there to shoot when they needed gunshots. They had a perfectly good Domino and wasted her.
The bizarre
-wolverine surf boarding-what an odd plot
-Evil Beast was defeated through the power of love for Wonder Man (who still has to remind the reader he is a pacifist)
This volume gets a two because friendship(or more?) saved the day in the most hilarious climax and then the series was over.
I survived the experience but at what cost?
So overall, what worked, what did not work, and what is actually memorable in its bizarre-ness?
What worked:
-It started out with a very interesting premise, and sometimes it actually worked. In the era of Krakoa, x-force still was a team that did the dirty work, but this time the dirty work was less the stabbing type and more the dirty work of getting rid of threats in a variety of manners. The book starts out interesting in that regard.
-Colossus’s storyline, while nothing too new for the character, gave him something to do in the Krakoa era and actually had an impact on the plot
-Lesser-known characters and unlikely x-folk as a part of the team-Sage, Black Tom Cassidy, and Omega Red were pretty neat additions and used for the most part pretty well.
What did not work:
-Hank McCoy. Oh my gosh, there is an x-editor who hates Beast for some reason? His character arc was more just like…he became too arrogant for his own good? He just really was like, cool I will throw my moral scruples away? Hank over the past decade has taken the role of scapegoat that Xavier has always had in x-books and in fandom, based on editorial choices and character decisions. I think the moment he became expendable was when he and Scott were no longer friends and everyone eventually started to say, isn’t he an asshole more frequently and it became true? X-Force’s Beast felt like an over-the-top culmination of that vision for no real well-thought out reason then they needed a bad guy. The book was weirdly obsessed with Beast just digging into the evil intellectual villain versus the average bub Wolverine type, and it’s like…sure okay. The fact they had to bring back Beast with his New Defenders personality makes anything with the character pointless. Nothing mattered, nothing was gained, and overall, I kind of think this is something no one is going to refer to in the rise from the ashes era.
-Deadpool was there for no good reason.
-overall, what threats did they stop? They had orchis right there and I am pretty sure x-force just kind of…did very little beyond stabbing with regard to that problem. In fact, many threats seemed kind of pointless because they were never acknowledged outside of the Percy books.
-Sage’s drinking problem-It was introduced and escalated. It was such an afterschool special type problem that was resolved quickly.
-Domino had the personality of a block. She went through trauma and got a tree arm. Then she was there to shoot when they needed gunshots. They had a perfectly good Domino and wasted her.
The bizarre
-wolverine surf boarding-what an odd plot
-Evil Beast was defeated through the power of love for Wonder Man (who still has to remind the reader he is a pacifist)
This volume gets a two because friendship(or more?) saved the day in the most hilarious climax and then the series was over.
I survived the experience but at what cost?
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 24, 2024
It's pretty much standard for this version if X-Force more black ops than action. This book is about survival. With attempts to redeem a couple of characters.
Orchis have made their move. The mutants are either dead, in exile, or hiding for survival. X-Force is the latter. Can they rebuild? Can they even trust their own members? What do they do they do when their old director comes back into pkay?
The book feels very rushed. They even cut out all the action panels in a rush to get the story finished. There are a couple of attempts at redemption arc stories, but they only have time for one, really. The lack of action is the most annoying for me, that is what they are supposed to be good at, right? Why cut out your main selling point? The book finishes with a letter from Ben Percy and a varient covers gallery.
Orchis have made their move. The mutants are either dead, in exile, or hiding for survival. X-Force is the latter. Can they rebuild? Can they even trust their own members? What do they do they do when their old director comes back into pkay?
The book feels very rushed. They even cut out all the action panels in a rush to get the story finished. There are a couple of attempts at redemption arc stories, but they only have time for one, really. The lack of action is the most annoying for me, that is what they are supposed to be good at, right? Why cut out your main selling point? The book finishes with a letter from Ben Percy and a varient covers gallery.
July 30, 2024
The end of the "Fall of X" X-Force run stops here. From the beginning of this title, right after HOX/POX, it has been a pretty good X-book. Not my favorite, but far from the worst. We end this run by Beast returning and Sage revealing she has kept a Beast clone (with mid to late 90's mind backed up) and she believes it will take Beast to catch Beast. Great to see Colossus working hard to earn trust back as well.
The Volume (and series) ends with about as happy an ending as you can get for being a dark title, and I look forward to seeing how the team will assist during the Sabretooth War. On to more X-Books!
Recommend.
The Volume (and series) ends with about as happy an ending as you can get for being a dark title, and I look forward to seeing how the team will assist during the Sabretooth War. On to more X-Books!
Recommend.
September 24, 2024
3.5 stars. This one comes to end in a bit of a quicker fashion than I would’ve liked, considering how much I enjoyed this series and the build-up for this storyline. I enjoyed this series overall as one of the better books in the Krakoa era of X-Men.
September 20, 2025
I did enjoy...."Dark" Beast in his various roles and nastiness and I guess this is his culmination of his story...
Even Wonder Man makes an appearance.
Even Wonder Man makes an appearance.
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January 20, 2025Well, all good things must come to an end, especially nowadays. With hindsight, it looks prescient that Marvel decided to burn down the (yes, flawed) mutant utopia of Krakoa when they did; a reminder that however much progress seems to have been made, the X-Men remain an all-purpose minority metaphor, and as such will sooner or later find themselves on the back foot once again in a world run by bastards who hate them. Given how uninspiring the new X-books look, it's entirely possible that I'll be back in desperation, crawling around under the sofa looking for a few crumbs of Fallen Angels, but for now I'm finishing up all the Krakoa that seems worth the reading with this, which feels appropriate. By internal chronology, it's not the end of the story; even Percy's own Sabretooth War comes after. But X-Force was the one series which ran from the beginning to the end of the era with the same numbering and writer, its story sometimes buffeted but never entirely derailed by events not of its own making. And so it proves here; there should clearly have been more space to play out this final act, but we still get most of a satisfactory resolution to the series' big story, Beast's gradual corruption into an outright supervillain reaching its endgame of an improbable doomsday weapon as he's confronted by the one person who can give his lethal certainty pause: a clone of his own younger self, his mutant rights ideals not yet corroded into entirely ends-justifies-means form. Meanwhile, the rest of the team wonder whether the new version is doomed to repeat the mistakes of the original, though of course most of them have their own dark pasts by which they might not wish to be judged. It doesn't all work, but it's still at least an attempt at superhero comics doing one of the things they do best, throwing in giant robots and outlandish powers to find a new angle from which to chew on old problems like 'can people really change?' I'll miss it.
June 11, 2024
5
There's something really satisfying about reading a 50 or so run by a single writer. More so if you've been following as the issues came out, months by month (approximately). A five year run. Jeez. Five years have gone by? It honestly doesn't feel that much time has past since I the first issue. Since the Krakoa era started. And with the end of this title, the Krakoa years are coming to a close. I happened to have been a fan.
Back to Percy, it was great he was allowed to let his overarching multiple narratives breathe and grow and then bring them to a conclusion. He had so many overlapping arcs! But all with a consistent thematic tone. A truly awesome run that will go down as one of the best.
***Spoiler Alert***
The kinda redemption of Beast was sudden and a bit unbelievable. Yet... believable at the same time and oddly satisfying. So not so covert nods to Luke redeeming Vader.
But all things end, as much as we want them to keep going. And sometimes a thing is better because it has ended. The story had a conclusion. It's not continuing to maintain a status quo, despite how popular.
There's something really satisfying about reading a 50 or so run by a single writer. More so if you've been following as the issues came out, months by month (approximately). A five year run. Jeez. Five years have gone by? It honestly doesn't feel that much time has past since I the first issue. Since the Krakoa era started. And with the end of this title, the Krakoa years are coming to a close. I happened to have been a fan.
Back to Percy, it was great he was allowed to let his overarching multiple narratives breathe and grow and then bring them to a conclusion. He had so many overlapping arcs! But all with a consistent thematic tone. A truly awesome run that will go down as one of the best.
***Spoiler Alert***
The kinda redemption of Beast was sudden and a bit unbelievable. Yet... believable at the same time and oddly satisfying. So not so covert nods to Luke redeeming Vader.
But all things end, as much as we want them to keep going. And sometimes a thing is better because it has ended. The story had a conclusion. It's not continuing to maintain a status quo, despite how popular.
June 10, 2025
Benjamin Percy may have broken some records of quiet quitting here.
January 26, 2025
For everything that has been going on in this book over the course of Krakoa, this kind of felt like a nothing arc that just rehashed a lot of the Beast ending. It’s one of the very few books to actually get 2 volumes post-Hellfire massacre, but not much was done with it.
There are some weird continuity issues present across the whole Fall of X story, not just these issues. The whole reason Xavier pushed the mutants through the portals was because Orchis threatened to kill exponentially more humans for every mutant discovered on earth. That hasn’t happened. In fact, we’ve seen them taking mutants to “reeducation centers” instead. Yet here, X-Force makes a comment that if the Sentinel confirms they’re mutants, humans will die.
They’re also able to scan and find mutants all over, to the point Emma Frost is wearing a power inhibitor, but they’ve not found any of the other refugee X-Men? But this group has to hide way up in the arctic. But also Ms. Marvel can operate openly in the same area Emma is hiding. So are we in a covert era or no? I get that the teams aren’t communicating (though I’m not sure why, especially when, for instance, Quentin sends out a distress call to all mutants), but there should either be real consequences for being open or not, or else it starts to feel silly and lose emphasis.
For this story in particular, Beast is back, again, and now he wants to trap all mutants in a black hole (by destroying all of Mars/Arakko) until he can solve the human problem. It’s a dumb plan, but hey, comics. Then there’s ANOTHER Beast clone, but this one is booted up by X-Force based on a version of Beast from like 30 years ago when he was on the Defenders, before all of his villainous turns. He brings in his old buddy, Wonder Man, to help him turn evil Beast toward good. When they arrive, Beast goes forward with his plan until Wonder Man does something that would kill him in a nuclear blast. Beast then sacrifices himself and all of his work about saving mutants and eradicating humans to save one human man.
It’s a somewhat poignant ending, but narratively, it instead contradicts everything we’ve seen about this character. All of these people he is supposed to love and care about have tried to challenge him, and he doubles down. Wonder Man pops back up for the first time in decades, and that’s what changes him? It wasn’t satisfying. There was no build up. Maybe if they’d focused on Wonder Man being innocent in all of this, but it all felt forced and a little undermined.
We also get hardly any follow up with Colossus. He has like 2 pages where he says he needs to earn back the trust of the team, but that’s it.
There were some interesting moments in this book, and it’s one of the longest running of the Krakoan era, but it ended up being sub par.
There are some weird continuity issues present across the whole Fall of X story, not just these issues. The whole reason Xavier pushed the mutants through the portals was because Orchis threatened to kill exponentially more humans for every mutant discovered on earth. That hasn’t happened. In fact, we’ve seen them taking mutants to “reeducation centers” instead. Yet here, X-Force makes a comment that if the Sentinel confirms they’re mutants, humans will die.
They’re also able to scan and find mutants all over, to the point Emma Frost is wearing a power inhibitor, but they’ve not found any of the other refugee X-Men? But this group has to hide way up in the arctic. But also Ms. Marvel can operate openly in the same area Emma is hiding. So are we in a covert era or no? I get that the teams aren’t communicating (though I’m not sure why, especially when, for instance, Quentin sends out a distress call to all mutants), but there should either be real consequences for being open or not, or else it starts to feel silly and lose emphasis.
For this story in particular, Beast is back, again, and now he wants to trap all mutants in a black hole (by destroying all of Mars/Arakko) until he can solve the human problem. It’s a dumb plan, but hey, comics. Then there’s ANOTHER Beast clone, but this one is booted up by X-Force based on a version of Beast from like 30 years ago when he was on the Defenders, before all of his villainous turns. He brings in his old buddy, Wonder Man, to help him turn evil Beast toward good. When they arrive, Beast goes forward with his plan until Wonder Man does something that would kill him in a nuclear blast. Beast then sacrifices himself and all of his work about saving mutants and eradicating humans to save one human man.
It’s a somewhat poignant ending, but narratively, it instead contradicts everything we’ve seen about this character. All of these people he is supposed to love and care about have tried to challenge him, and he doubles down. Wonder Man pops back up for the first time in decades, and that’s what changes him? It wasn’t satisfying. There was no build up. Maybe if they’d focused on Wonder Man being innocent in all of this, but it all felt forced and a little undermined.
We also get hardly any follow up with Colossus. He has like 2 pages where he says he needs to earn back the trust of the team, but that’s it.
There were some interesting moments in this book, and it’s one of the longest running of the Krakoan era, but it ended up being sub par.
June 13, 2024
We have reached the end of both X-Force and the end of the final story arc for this series. Benjamin Percy throws everything but the kitchen sink at us in this final chapter of his X-Force run, delivering a frenetically paced brawl between X-Force & Beast Prime. This has been a recurring theme throughout Percy's time on X-Force. Intriguing plot threads are teased, only to be sidelined or abandoned altogether in favor of lesser storylines, like the Colossus/Rasputin arc that extended well beyond its shelf-life. That arc, which dominated a significant portion of the series’s back-half, ultimately feels like a roadblock that prevented this more compelling Beast story from reaching its full potential. Even w/ those complaints, there's no denying the thrill factor here. Robert Gill's art, combined w/ Guru_eFX's dynamic colors, brings the action sequences to life w/ stunning visuals. Each X-Force member gets a moment to shine, showcasing their unique abilities in exciting detail. Unfortunately, where the action excels, Percy’s script isn’t as equitable in giving each member a final sendoff (I’m looking at you Omega Red). The underwater scenes in particular were phenomenal & I will miss the blues & greens utilized throughout this series.
Overall, the final X-Force volume is a visually impressive comic, but it stumbles in its attempt to deliver a satisfying conclusion. While the action sequences are undeniably exciting, the story’s core thesis feels underdeveloped. It is difficult to say how the series will be looked on in the future, but at the moment, when this last issue is still fresh and new, the story in its pages can be at least considered to have interesting ideas, as well as bringing up difficult questions on morality that will be good to reflect on long after the final page is turned.
Overall, the final X-Force volume is a visually impressive comic, but it stumbles in its attempt to deliver a satisfying conclusion. While the action sequences are undeniably exciting, the story’s core thesis feels underdeveloped. It is difficult to say how the series will be looked on in the future, but at the moment, when this last issue is still fresh and new, the story in its pages can be at least considered to have interesting ideas, as well as bringing up difficult questions on morality that will be good to reflect on long after the final page is turned.
May 9, 2024
It's the final run of Percy's, X-Force and it felt rushed and thrown together...
There's always been a TON of pieces to play with in the X-Force books, and that's all fine and good. It was a good deck of cards to play with. The problem is that they never finished playing through with the same hand. Quentin came back to the story with a major power fluctuation and yet he blazes off to save his girlfriend (and the whole thing is COMPLETELY glossed over). Colossus just betrayed the team in a previous collection of issues and the team takes an apology and moves on with keeping him on the team....yet they hunt down Beast for HIS crimes against mutants and humans...
Also, the 'New Defenders' era Beast-clone meets up with current timeline Wonder Man. Sounds great, right? Connection, friendship, reconnecting with the humanity within the OG Hank McCoy. Guess again. Everything gets hit by the 'fast forward' button and feels super rushed. Heck, the dramatic resolution is...3 panels followed by a monologue box explaining how the team will continue on. It's as if they had it all paced out and plotted, but were told to tie it up with a neat bow by the 50th issue.
Didn't care for it. The whole run felt like an idea board for future X-titles. Throw enough crap out there and see what people like...retcon the rest. Not my favorite strategy
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Bonus: Last I checked, resurrected Wonder Man doesn't breathe, eat, or sleep...then WHY does he need tanks to go deep sea hunting with Beast-clone?
There's always been a TON of pieces to play with in the X-Force books, and that's all fine and good. It was a good deck of cards to play with. The problem is that they never finished playing through with the same hand. Quentin came back to the story with a major power fluctuation and yet he blazes off to save his girlfriend (and the whole thing is COMPLETELY glossed over). Colossus just betrayed the team in a previous collection of issues and the team takes an apology and moves on with keeping him on the team....yet they hunt down Beast for HIS crimes against mutants and humans...
Also, the 'New Defenders' era Beast-clone meets up with current timeline Wonder Man. Sounds great, right? Connection, friendship, reconnecting with the humanity within the OG Hank McCoy. Guess again. Everything gets hit by the 'fast forward' button and feels super rushed. Heck, the dramatic resolution is...3 panels followed by a monologue box explaining how the team will continue on. It's as if they had it all paced out and plotted, but were told to tie it up with a neat bow by the 50th issue.
Didn't care for it. The whole run felt like an idea board for future X-titles. Throw enough crap out there and see what people like...retcon the rest. Not my favorite strategy
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Bonus: Last I checked, resurrected Wonder Man doesn't breathe, eat, or sleep...then WHY does he need tanks to go deep sea hunting with Beast-clone?
March 28, 2024
This was such a fun series and I have been reading it from the get go and seriously it ended decently too and I know the whole run had flaws and sometimes it felt like too much was going on and multiple stories and it could get confusing but overall I found the story's end aka this volume pretty good and I like how this wraps up the evil beast storyline and I kinda guessed what would happen and how old beast would be back but it was fun to see Wonder man reuniting with his best friend and how it ends was brutal and how it involves Orchis and all and evil Beast's plan and all that and how that prompts X-Force to be so swift.. that was awesome to see!
You can clearly see how the team has evolved and coordinating and working together as a unit so well and Logan being brutal which is his hallmark and his character is well written too here obviously but there is the stuff with his hatred for evil beast which makes sense if you have been reading Percy's ongoing Wolverine series too and it makes for a nice contrast and resolution.. though it will be interesting to see where X-Force goes from here and what it means for Beast!
So yeah fun ending to this X-Force run set during the krakoan era and I liked it overall, it has its flaws but its so rare these days to see 50 issue runs so this was fun to read!
You can clearly see how the team has evolved and coordinating and working together as a unit so well and Logan being brutal which is his hallmark and his character is well written too here obviously but there is the stuff with his hatred for evil beast which makes sense if you have been reading Percy's ongoing Wolverine series too and it makes for a nice contrast and resolution.. though it will be interesting to see where X-Force goes from here and what it means for Beast!
So yeah fun ending to this X-Force run set during the krakoan era and I liked it overall, it has its flaws but its so rare these days to see 50 issue runs so this was fun to read!
October 21, 2024
wait, i don't understand the hate & low ratings. of course there are ups & downs in this whole run but specifically this volume? it is an action-packed volume! Daniel Picciotto is beautiful! love the face close up drawing. gorgeous! sad to see this long run of X-Force ended. i really really enjoyed all the fights, battles & straight forward action-packed stories. what a fun X-Men books! Benjamin Percy is one of the good writers that i really enjoyed. He is one of my favorite now! Can't wait to read more books by him! next is Wolverine, Vol. 1 & Ghost Rider, Vol. 1: Unchained
March 11, 2025
Con el final de la cabecera impuesto en el nº50, Benjamin Percy debe finiquitar todo su arco argumental con "Dark Bestia" de una forma que se compra en estas circunstancias, pero que queda totalmente visible como una de las arquitramas más manoseadas del "manual de guionistas Marvel desesperados". Es cierto que no vuelve a pasar lo de acudir literalmente al pasado para contar con una versión aún sin "villanizar" de Bestia (si me dieran dos centavos... ), pero a lo que ya sabíamos de los clones de reserva que dieron a pie a uno de los últimos arcos argumentales de X-Force, se acude para "activar" una idílica versión de Hank McCoy. Aquella que confraternizaba con humanos en otros suepergrupos como en los que fragúo su amistad con Wonder Man. ¿Qué dirá de cómo su "yo futuro" está atentando tanto contra la humanidad y la comunidad mutante? Mucho forzar la situación para volver a un status quo rutinario que ahora mismo estamos sufriendo con los mutis.
De todas formas, Benjamin Percy aún mantendrá esta cabecera "activa" aunándola a la de Lobezno. En la cual, las amenazas sí que van dos pasos sangrientos más allá con el retorno de Victor Creed.
De todas formas, Benjamin Percy aún mantendrá esta cabecera "activa" aunándola a la de Lobezno. En la cual, las amenazas sí que van dos pasos sangrientos más allá con el retorno de Victor Creed.
November 28, 2024
I’m surprised this had such bad reviews (3.18 on Goodreads so far), as I thought it was a pretty competent ending to Percy’s run on X-Force for the time being. This series was always marred a bit by the characters showing up in other Wolverine and Sabertooth products and thanks to the lack of clear ordering (at least to me), I read this AFTER wrapping up the Sabertooth War (or whatever it was called…). I’m glad I finally got some clarity on why Hank appears to have memory issues in the newest X-Men run based on a sneak peek I had. Ending felt a little rushed…would have liked an extra issue or two of volume just to let some of the characters really develop a bit more connection as a team before the ending, since this is all largely set post-Krakoa.
December 7, 2024
How many times can Beast be the primary villain within a given series? X-Force is testing the limits. I'm pretty sure he's been defeated four or five times now, and yet here he is once again threatening humanity in the name of mutant security. How does X-Force fight back this time?
It's a fine journey that, I suppose, brings to a close Benjamin Percy's long-running X-Force run. It also feels like more of the same. Also: Marvel publishing's lack of direction to the reader with these X-series is really noticeable here. This volume is actually the lead-in to the Sabretooth War, though that's in no way mentioned on any of these books.
It's a fine journey that, I suppose, brings to a close Benjamin Percy's long-running X-Force run. It also feels like more of the same. Also: Marvel publishing's lack of direction to the reader with these X-series is really noticeable here. This volume is actually the lead-in to the Sabretooth War, though that's in no way mentioned on any of these books.
March 27, 2024
X-Force moves to the North Pole after Fall of X, but this book continues to be all about Beast. X-Force brings a clone of Beast back with only his memories up until he was part of the New Defenders and they go after one another in a half-baked finale. Percy tries to make some magic with the return team-up of Beast and Wonder Man but I don't think Percy knew much about Wonder Man these days. He was completely out of character and a weakling who for some reason couldn't breathe underwater even though Wonder Man doesn't breathe at all since Kurt Busiek resurrected him in Avengers. I give Percy's run 4 raspberries. If I had 4 middle fingers, I'd give him those too.
September 25, 2024
X-Force enter the Fall Of X just as everything goes wrong and Beast makes his final move, for better or worse.
For a book that's been building up to this confrontation for fifty issues, this final arc, even with the extra page count on issue 50, feels rushed. There are good ideas here, like bringing in Wonder Man to appeal to Beast's better nature, and even the way they resolve the Beast plot in general is pretty clever, but it's all done very quickly and a little slapdash, which isn't what this series has prided itself on for the past 50 issues.
A damn shame, really. It's not a bad ending, but there's definitely a 'Oh, is that it?' feeling when the dust settles.
For a book that's been building up to this confrontation for fifty issues, this final arc, even with the extra page count on issue 50, feels rushed. There are good ideas here, like bringing in Wonder Man to appeal to Beast's better nature, and even the way they resolve the Beast plot in general is pretty clever, but it's all done very quickly and a little slapdash, which isn't what this series has prided itself on for the past 50 issues.
A damn shame, really. It's not a bad ending, but there's definitely a 'Oh, is that it?' feeling when the dust settles.
September 22, 2024
wow this title deserved a much better ending than that :(
somehow along the way it made us care for this ragtag team of ex-villains and morally grey characters (i forget why laura is on this team though lol)
it was actually going ok until the last handful of pages where it turned into me scribbling the end of my english essay when the examiner has said 'pens down' already. i don't even get what happened to beast because they smashed the glasses and i couldn't tell who was who lol. if what i think happened happened then ???????????? him and wonder man should defs kiss
somehow along the way it made us care for this ragtag team of ex-villains and morally grey characters (i forget why laura is on this team though lol)
it was actually going ok until the last handful of pages where it turned into me scribbling the end of my english essay when the examiner has said 'pens down' already. i don't even get what happened to beast because they smashed the glasses and i couldn't tell who was who lol. if what i think happened happened then ???????????? him and wonder man should defs kiss
May 16, 2024
At least, we can rest. X-Force has come to an end. And with it this god damn evil Beast story. But actually not really because as this was being published so was the Wolverine-Sabertooth War story that takes place after this so all the pressure of this story was removed and any meaningful ending meant absolutely nothing. Kinda cool to see Wonder Man though. He doesn’t pop up much anymore, random to turn a super hero into a pacifist.
September 30, 2024
Let me start by saying I enjoyed this volume but there were many problems. You can tell this ending was rushed and stretched to get to issue 50. The beast arc, while entertaining, it just kept going without any real solution, while half-hazardly adding a pre-krakoan Beast to retcon the previous arc. I'm not sure if the problems lie with the story building or with the editors but this volume could use some work. It's still enjoyable but disappointing for a fun run. Grade: C
September 25, 2024
While X-Force didn't go out in quite the blaze Percy's run on Wolverine did it's still an impressive run. I could have lived without all the Deadpool stuff that bogged down previous volumes and was happy for his absence here as well as the equal parts strange and clever rehabilitation of Beast that brings this series home.
November 16, 2024
This appeared to be building toward something more than the rushed ending we actually received. It feels like there are 5-10 pages missing. One moment, evil Beast is going after his black hole gun, which is sinking into the ocean, and the next, we've got a quick summary of everything that happened, everything that we didn't get to see. What the heck?
December 14, 2024
I would say “this could have been great if the writer had a little more time,” but since so much of this series felt like it was spinning its wheels, I don’t think that’s going to pass. The direction Percy took for this final arc was good idea, with poor execution. Too rushed, both narratively and visually, degrading what could have been an increasingly satisfying ending to a passable one.
September 26, 2024
Farewell to one of the three best X-books (Hellions and immortal) of the Krakoan era. A book that dug into what nation building and maintenance would actually have to be. I know it touched nerves with some people but I believe it will come to be seen as one of the greats in years to come.
March 1, 2025
A lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing. And it ends with the toys back in the box. Not just from Percy’s run, but everything Beast has done since the 80s. My least favorite book that I’ve read fifty issues of.
February 1, 2026
I had missed the conclusion of the Beast's descent into the dark side, so I bought this to see what exactly had happened. It seemed kind of rushed, which I felt warranted losing a star. I understand wanting to end with issue #50, but still. However, overall, I still enjoyed it.
April 11, 2024
This X-Force run was 90% trash with a few really good moments and concepts that very quickly went no where. Also what even was that super abrupt and completely unsatisfying ending in #50???
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