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Uncanny X-Force (2013) (Collected Editions)
Uncanny X-Force, Vol. 3: The Great Corruption
Collects Uncanny X-Force (2013) #13-17 & Cable and X-Force #18-19.
X-Force must battle their fiercest enemies yet as the truth about the revenant Owl Queen is revealed — and she's one of the X-Men's greatest foes! As Storm plays her trump card, the Queen and her army rampage through Los Angeles. What sacrifice will one X-Force member make to stop them? Then, classic X-Force villain Stryfe has returned! And he's eager to exact revenge on Cable! Meanwhile, Hope comes face-to-face with Bishop, the man who crusaded across centuries to exterminate her. But this time she's ready to retaliate, and they'll hold nothing back as they race to destroy one another. Don't miss this no-holds-barred, knock-down, drag-out X-Force event starring Cable's squad, and Psylocke and Storm's uncanny team! Because when the dust settles, only one X-Force will be left standing!
X-Force must battle their fiercest enemies yet as the truth about the revenant Owl Queen is revealed — and she's one of the X-Men's greatest foes! As Storm plays her trump card, the Queen and her army rampage through Los Angeles. What sacrifice will one X-Force member make to stop them? Then, classic X-Force villain Stryfe has returned! And he's eager to exact revenge on Cable! Meanwhile, Hope comes face-to-face with Bishop, the man who crusaded across centuries to exterminate her. But this time she's ready to retaliate, and they'll hold nothing back as they race to destroy one another. Don't miss this no-holds-barred, knock-down, drag-out X-Force event starring Cable's squad, and Psylocke and Storm's uncanny team! Because when the dust settles, only one X-Force will be left standing!
158 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 8, 2014
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December 27, 2018
It started off so well with Storm, Puck and Psylocke in issue one of this series... but after the first arc it lost it's way entirely and continued to so here with very poor cliched writing and art! It ends rather dubiously with a very contrived attempt to start repairing the immense damage they'd done to Bishop's character. 5 out of 12.
August 18, 2020
This one is okay; not too striking or memorable, but not bad. There are two different teams, one with Psylocke, Storm, Puck, Spiral, and Bishop, and the other with Cable, Hope, Colossus, Forge, Dr. Nemesis, Boom Boom, and Domino. The first part of the book winds up the Revenant storyline and the second sees the two teams face off with one another because that's what X-folk do when no one can think of a better plot. (Well, really, Strife is there to cause strife, but, you know...) Many of the characters don't have much to do; they're just there because they're there. Betsy has some good moments, Boom Boom is cute, and I've always liked Domino, but on the other hand the Cable-Bishop thing was always overdone, Puck is old and skeevy (as Boom Boom notes), and Storm seems rather weak. The art isn't great but serves the story well enough. It's an okay book...
April 6, 2014
This was garbage. If you had, like me, a good experience with Remender's X-Force, run away from this book. Run in the other direction and never look back.
From the beginning, the story has been pretty weak, but at least the book looked decent. In this volume, everything plummets downhill. The villains are two dimensional and unintimidating. The last time I saw Cassandra Nova as a villain it was truly terrifying. She infiltrated the X-Men and nearly won. It was cerebral and thrilling. This was just popcorn fodder, except I didn't even want to be reading it. The author was trying for brutal but still trying to be cartoonish. It's a mix that does not work here.
That brings up the art. I don't know what happened to the last artists, but these new ones suck. There's nothing great about the style and more often than not, the faces are just "derpy" in the worst way. It only gets worse as the book goes on.
Speaking of, there's a second story arc here, since the book was cancelled and had to be wrapped up rather quickly. This is a crossover with Cable and X-Force, another abysmal title that was cancelled. The Cable artist and author are even worse than the team on Uncanny and the storyline even more loose and ridiculous.
I literally have nothing good to say about this book. It had plenty of characters that I like and plenty of opportunity to be something excellent, and it failed. It was a 17-issue waste of time and money.
From the beginning, the story has been pretty weak, but at least the book looked decent. In this volume, everything plummets downhill. The villains are two dimensional and unintimidating. The last time I saw Cassandra Nova as a villain it was truly terrifying. She infiltrated the X-Men and nearly won. It was cerebral and thrilling. This was just popcorn fodder, except I didn't even want to be reading it. The author was trying for brutal but still trying to be cartoonish. It's a mix that does not work here.
That brings up the art. I don't know what happened to the last artists, but these new ones suck. There's nothing great about the style and more often than not, the faces are just "derpy" in the worst way. It only gets worse as the book goes on.
Speaking of, there's a second story arc here, since the book was cancelled and had to be wrapped up rather quickly. This is a crossover with Cable and X-Force, another abysmal title that was cancelled. The Cable artist and author are even worse than the team on Uncanny and the storyline even more loose and ridiculous.
I literally have nothing good to say about this book. It had plenty of characters that I like and plenty of opportunity to be something excellent, and it failed. It was a 17-issue waste of time and money.
October 9, 2025
Updated During 2025 X-Reread:
This is a disappointing end to a mediocre series. One of my main problems with this volume, aside from it being virtually but not quite the same product as Cable and X-Force, Vol. 4: Vendetta, is that it presents previously omega-level villains as weak and non-threatening. It presents an apocalypse level story that the team immediately overcomes and then it will probably never be referenced again.
Cassandra Nova is wasted in the story. Stryfe has never been interesting in any story he appeared in. and the Bishop/Hope/Cable story isn't nearly as interesting or satisfying as it should be, given its setup in X-Men: Messiah Complex and Cable, Vol. 1: Messiah War. This book isn't as fun as it was when it began, and it isn't important enough to be written as grittily as it is.
Even if you enjoyed the first two volumes of Humphries's Uncanny X-Force, this one is best left unread.
***
Original 2019 Review:
Marvel sells you the same story twice, as the final four issues in this volume are also the final four issues in volume four of Cable & The X-Men. And it's a Stupid, Uninspiring Garbage Fire of a story, too. But before we can get to that, there's the dull splat of the revenant storyline coming to an end. It was hardly a revolutionary or classic story, but it had been just bonkers enough to be interesting, and then it just sort of stops so that we can get to Hope Vs Bishop, which is also a massive waste of potential.
I don't recommend this. To anyone.
This is a disappointing end to a mediocre series. One of my main problems with this volume, aside from it being virtually but not quite the same product as Cable and X-Force, Vol. 4: Vendetta, is that it presents previously omega-level villains as weak and non-threatening. It presents an apocalypse level story that the team immediately overcomes and then it will probably never be referenced again.
Cassandra Nova is wasted in the story. Stryfe has never been interesting in any story he appeared in. and the Bishop/Hope/Cable story isn't nearly as interesting or satisfying as it should be, given its setup in X-Men: Messiah Complex and Cable, Vol. 1: Messiah War. This book isn't as fun as it was when it began, and it isn't important enough to be written as grittily as it is.
Even if you enjoyed the first two volumes of Humphries's Uncanny X-Force, this one is best left unread.
***
Original 2019 Review:
Marvel sells you the same story twice, as the final four issues in this volume are also the final four issues in volume four of Cable & The X-Men. And it's a Stupid, Uninspiring Garbage Fire of a story, too. But before we can get to that, there's the dull splat of the revenant storyline coming to an end. It was hardly a revolutionary or classic story, but it had been just bonkers enough to be interesting, and then it just sort of stops so that we can get to Hope Vs Bishop, which is also a massive waste of potential.
I don't recommend this. To anyone.
February 3, 2017
Since I had just read the Cable & X-Force trade that crosses over with this, I figured I would read it as well in order to get the full story. I really needn't have bothered, since the crossover story is rather well contained. At least half of this book is taken up by that story, because the other story is a real stinker. It involves Cassandra Nova (who has never been a favorite of mine), some kind of ill-defined telepathic magic, and writing out the Demon Bear (good riddance). None of these things fit very well with comics about mutants, and instead, this feels like a story pitched with different characters that has instead been crammed into an X-book. At least pretty much all of it is wrapped up, so it should have little to no further effect on continuity, because this is one story that should stay dead.
August 15, 2014
What a mess. X-Force hasn't been good since Remender's run ended, and it seems like Marvel has no idea what they want to do with it. Bringing old characters back, mucking about with former X-Force characters - it all feels like some sort of weird nostalgia trip gone wrong.
Now there's a new X-Force (Marvel NOW!), which I am totally uninterested in reading. This is sad, because X-Force (both the Kyle/Yost & Remender runs) used to be one of my must reads every month.
Now there's a new X-Force (Marvel NOW!), which I am totally uninterested in reading. This is sad, because X-Force (both the Kyle/Yost & Remender runs) used to be one of my must reads every month.
April 19, 2015
The first part of this compilation is a continuation of the fairly decent Cassandra Nova/Revenant Queen story. The second half is exactly the same story as what is in the Cable and X-Force compilation. One other quibble - the phemale Phantomex is shown in the covers to at least two of the issues in this book, but she doesn't appear in the actual story at all.
August 14, 2018
Continuing the great x-read of 2017/18...
I am going to write one review for the final volumes of each of these X-force series (though different scores which will be obvious in the review) as they cross over and each volume is at least 50% shared content (which is kind of a crappy way for Marvel to bleed money out of consumers but that is a whole different topic...).
So the two X-force series that were set up to follow up Remender's fascinating and excellent series end together here and both fall a little flat in this end but for different reasons in my opinion.
Humphries team of mutants was an intriguing group as an idea but he never quite made them gel in any way that made their story actually interesting. Puck was a caricature rather than a character, Storm was background noise, Spiral didn't matter much beyond her power in the end... Psylocke's relationship (and its collapse) with Fantomex was the most interesting part of the whole series and even that had its problems. In the end, this Uncanny X-force book was - for me, at least - completely forgettable. The status quo remains intact for nearly all of its characters and it just didn't do anything new... I feel no remorse whatsoever about seeing this series end - I won't miss this team at all.
Cable and the X-force, though, I will miss. I feel like Hopeless was much better at writing a team book and making the reader care about every character, at least on some level. The overarching plot was a good backbone to a series (though I imagine it would have worn out its welcome fairly quickly if the stakes weren't raised or changed...) and it only picked up steam with the introduction of Stryfe and Bishop. The ending of the series was more than a bit of a letdown, but I feel like Hopeless *got* these characters and could have really accomplished something with this series if he had been given more time to get there.
I am going to write one review for the final volumes of each of these X-force series (though different scores which will be obvious in the review) as they cross over and each volume is at least 50% shared content (which is kind of a crappy way for Marvel to bleed money out of consumers but that is a whole different topic...).
So the two X-force series that were set up to follow up Remender's fascinating and excellent series end together here and both fall a little flat in this end but for different reasons in my opinion.
Humphries team of mutants was an intriguing group as an idea but he never quite made them gel in any way that made their story actually interesting. Puck was a caricature rather than a character, Storm was background noise, Spiral didn't matter much beyond her power in the end... Psylocke's relationship (and its collapse) with Fantomex was the most interesting part of the whole series and even that had its problems. In the end, this Uncanny X-force book was - for me, at least - completely forgettable. The status quo remains intact for nearly all of its characters and it just didn't do anything new... I feel no remorse whatsoever about seeing this series end - I won't miss this team at all.
Cable and the X-force, though, I will miss. I feel like Hopeless was much better at writing a team book and making the reader care about every character, at least on some level. The overarching plot was a good backbone to a series (though I imagine it would have worn out its welcome fairly quickly if the stakes weren't raised or changed...) and it only picked up steam with the introduction of Stryfe and Bishop. The ending of the series was more than a bit of a letdown, but I feel like Hopeless *got* these characters and could have really accomplished something with this series if he had been given more time to get there.
January 22, 2025
There are two lineages of X-Force. The original, created by Rob Liefeld, was a paramilitary force led by Cable. Another X-Force was formed as a covert wetwork squad by Wolverine that favored blades compared to Cable's preference for firepower.
These two lines didn't use to be published together. However, when Rick Remender's modern classic Uncanny X-Force ended with Marvel editorial unsure how to follow up such a well-regarded run. So, they ran both together, with two different X-Force squads in their own books.
This collection is a mess. It collects two arcs. The first one is the last solo arc of this book. It's about revenants, but not like the movie where Leonardo DiCaprio got mauled by a bear. Although, this arc actually had a demon bear in it.
The second arc is a crossover between the two X-Force titles, one squad likes guns, and the other likes blades. The whole thing is a mess because it has too many artists with contrasting styles. Individually, their art is good, but together, there's no cohesion for the entire volume.
The story is okay, but nothing memorable. There are interesting flashes, like Doctor Nemesis and his acerbic wit, or Puck just being your token Canadian in a story that lacks a Wolverine appearance. I think Logan was busy being dead at this time or was about to be.
These two lines didn't use to be published together. However, when Rick Remender's modern classic Uncanny X-Force ended with Marvel editorial unsure how to follow up such a well-regarded run. So, they ran both together, with two different X-Force squads in their own books.
This collection is a mess. It collects two arcs. The first one is the last solo arc of this book. It's about revenants, but not like the movie where Leonardo DiCaprio got mauled by a bear. Although, this arc actually had a demon bear in it.
The second arc is a crossover between the two X-Force titles, one squad likes guns, and the other likes blades. The whole thing is a mess because it has too many artists with contrasting styles. Individually, their art is good, but together, there's no cohesion for the entire volume.
The story is okay, but nothing memorable. There are interesting flashes, like Doctor Nemesis and his acerbic wit, or Puck just being your token Canadian in a story that lacks a Wolverine appearance. I think Logan was busy being dead at this time or was about to be.
June 27, 2023
This was unpleasant. The Revenant Queen was a pretty lame idea and was handled rather easily given her build-up. And then we get a needed crossover that was dismal. Cable's team and the Uncanny team butt heads, as they should, but the reunion is generic. My biggest issue is so many characters didn't speak like themselves, Boom Boom, Storm, Domino, etc. The story had potential but it was so lazy. The art throughout the book was average. Overage, a pretty big disappointment.
November 10, 2024
The Exciting Ending to an OK arc, it merges with Cable's X-Force which I think was a better series.
The first part was awesome and a little stressful as X-Force tries to save the world from the very imminent Revenant Apocalypse.
The second part sees Hope trying to kill Bishop and they get abducted by Strife and Cable's X-Force and the Uncanny X-Force team up to save them.
Its heavy, action packed and a ton of fun.
The first part was awesome and a little stressful as X-Force tries to save the world from the very imminent Revenant Apocalypse.
The second part sees Hope trying to kill Bishop and they get abducted by Strife and Cable's X-Force and the Uncanny X-Force team up to save them.
Its heavy, action packed and a ton of fun.
February 1, 2019
The team goes of against the reverent queen which turns out to be Professor X evil twin. The other story is about the two X-force teams facing of when Bishop and Hope clashes and Stryfe enters the fray.
February 6, 2019
I enjoyed this book, but the latter crossover was just okay. Didn’t really move the characters forward or bring the Hope/Bishop relationship to a new place. Just kinda stayed the same, but the first half was great for the end of Sam Humphrie’s run.
April 14, 2025
sick of the revenants.
obviously how it would be resolved as soon as Cassandra brought back original Psylocke.
book must-have been selling poorly as the artists keep changing and reducing in quality.
see cables and x force vop 4 for crossover thoughts.
obviously how it would be resolved as soon as Cassandra brought back original Psylocke.
book must-have been selling poorly as the artists keep changing and reducing in quality.
see cables and x force vop 4 for crossover thoughts.
July 10, 2017
A nice ending to the Bishop/X-Force story. Good to see more of the Cable/Strife complications in person. A fun three pack of x-force books, read quickly, but enjoyed.
February 12, 2018
Lots of action, characters are intriguing. Hope shines.
August 6, 2018
This series was limping out of the gate and it never got better. It ends with as little impact as it possibly could, which is too bad considering how good the previous series was.
June 22, 2014
This trade opens with a storyline that wraps up the whole Cassandra Nova/Revenant thing, but it all seems a bit pedestrian by the end of it, with no real high stakes. Spiral and Puck keep sticking around for no apparent reason other than because they've got nothing better to do, but the artwork by Phil Briones is solid. It's a decent arc, but not one I would have seen wrap up the last 15 issues of storyline. Then we get the Vendetta crossover, which is basically an extended Cable & X-Force story. The conflict between Cable, Bishop, and Hope is well explored, but the rest falls a bit flat. The other teams do nothing but bicker and be ineffective for 4 issues, whilst Stryfe's appearance makes no sense at all and is never explained other than 'He wants to mess with Cable.' Again, the artwork is solid, but it's not really a crossover that needed to happen, nor is it really a series-ending arc.
April 13, 2014
Revanants. Theoretically, I should have loved this arc, with its continuity-laden climax, including touchbacks to Claremont and Morrison alike. And, the plot is OK. Unfortunately, the characterization is quite poor. I don't believe the Cassandra Nova and Demon Bear characters, and the whole UXF team other than Psylocke comes across as entirely flat. So, it's just an OK finale to UXF's main arc [5/10].
Vendetta. The final crossover with Cable & X-Force is a badly needed confrontation over the whole Bishop issue. I've never been too happy about bringing him back, but Hopeless and Humphries actually make me believe his change of heart herein. Overall, this is a fine storyline, though it makes it a little obvious how superior Hopeless' writing is to Humphries' [7/10].
Vendetta. The final crossover with Cable & X-Force is a badly needed confrontation over the whole Bishop issue. I've never been too happy about bringing him back, but Hopeless and Humphries actually make me believe his change of heart herein. Overall, this is a fine storyline, though it makes it a little obvious how superior Hopeless' writing is to Humphries' [7/10].
December 8, 2015
The story is probably deserving of 4 stars, but it gets less because I despise it when Marvel puts out multiple trades with overlapping issues forcing readers to buy some issues twice if they are reading all of the crossover titles. In this case, this book shares 4 issues (of 7, over 1/2 the book!) with Cable and X-Force, Vol. 4: Vendetta. It's simple exploitation of their readers and fans and I hate it.
June 26, 2017
The revenant story line was annoying but the followup with Cable and Hope and Bishop and Stryfe was just plain too complicated. And I've lost track of the difference between the two X-Force(s). And I wish they'd learn how to draw Hope, though Bishop looked better than usual in this one. All in all though this issues was okay, definitely not great.
January 7, 2015
First half of this review is for the first half of the book written by Humphries.
Stupid.
Oh gosh it's gonna be "the end of the world" if the heroes don't save it. (insert FART noise here)
Ugghhh!
The second half of the book written by Hopeless, is pretty durn good!
The two X-Force teams meet
and it nicely concludes the story he began in "Cable and X-Force"
Stupid.
Oh gosh it's gonna be "the end of the world" if the heroes don't save it. (insert FART noise here)
Ugghhh!
The second half of the book written by Hopeless, is pretty durn good!
The two X-Force teams meet
and it nicely concludes the story he began in "Cable and X-Force"
October 5, 2020
Much better than the last one. This review is for the first arc.
-concludes the revenant arc... not the biggest fan of these guys.
+Demon bear is kinda fun this time around.
++Psylocke ending hits home with her previous uncanny arc.
++Storm and Bishop headbutting
-predictable sacrifices
-save the world melodrama.
Combined story of the last issues 5/5
-concludes the revenant arc... not the biggest fan of these guys.
+Demon bear is kinda fun this time around.
++Psylocke ending hits home with her previous uncanny arc.
++Storm and Bishop headbutting
-predictable sacrifices
-save the world melodrama.
Combined story of the last issues 5/5
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June 30, 2014The charm of the first two volumes gets a little lost here, as crossovers and invasions from beyond the veil take centre stage. The absence of Fantomex doesn't help, though the Puck/Boom-Boom double act is some consolation.
May 9, 2015
I liked this. I'm a little miffed that I'm going to have to read another X-Force volume, which will contain virtually the entire same story. Should have combined!
Especially because the Uncanny X-Force story does not really relate to the Cable & the X-Force story.
Especially because the Uncanny X-Force story does not really relate to the Cable & the X-Force story.
August 11, 2020
The dynamic between the new X-Force members are fleshed out in this volume especially Puck and Storm's chemistry with one another that is very very good, also Spiral learns to be a good member so it makes this volume interesting.
Please bring more spiral in the recent x-men comics
Please bring more spiral in the recent x-men comics
May 27, 2026
Concludes the Bishop/Revenant arc and features a crossover with the Cable X-Force series. Nothing about this was surprising. Plots we’ve seen a million times before, fighting, evil villain monologuing, snark, the heroes win. The end. One giant shrug from me.
June 1, 2014
Not as bad as the preceding volume, but a far cry from the Rick Remender days.
November 23, 2014
Individual issues on marvel unlimited
April 2, 2015
More of the same kak. It gets marginally better after the Revenant Queen storyline.
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