X-Force (2019-2024) #22

X-Force (2019) (Single Issues)

by Benjamin Percy, Joshua Cassara (Cover Art), Robert Gill (Artist)

FATAL FLORA! The material makeup of MAN-SLAUGHTER has been used to infect and control an army of unwilling agents! Can X-FORCE get to the root of the problem before DR. BLOODROOT kills again?

Genres: Comics, Marvel, X Men

25 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 11, 2021

About the author

Benjamin 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.

Reviews

[Tanabrus · Rating 2 out of 5]

Posso dirlo?

Sono ufficialmente stufo della botanica che permea le testate mutanti nel nuovo corso.
Siamo partiti con la tecnologia biologica di Krakoa, ed era bello.
Ma da qui sono spuntate le vecchiette arzille a caccia di fiori, le nuove specie vegetali senzienti in sud America, questo nemico, aggiungiamoci anche gli alieni arborei di Empyre... per combattere la vegetazione mutante di Krakoa, tutti stanno andando su questo settore, sembra.
E, opinione personale, non mi piace né mi prende.
Una volta ok, quando diventa una tendenza anche no.

(Poi, tutto troppo rapido, veloce e annacquato qui, dai)

[Shawn Ingle · Rating 3 out of 5]

When not trying to be a botany textbook this is decent enough. I really like Gill's art and I'm really glad they wrapped up this storyline (hopefully). Although we certainly haven't seen the last of Mr. Peacock and Xeno. A little strange that Quentin was completely absent here as was Forge even though they appear on the cover and were part of this story in the previous issue.

[Myles Likes Tacos and Rice · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really enjoyed the art and don't mind Sage being a ripoff of Oracle, but I feel like X-Force is losing its edge. I could be in the minority but this group (and comic) is the best when it is a dark as f. Basically the tone that was established in the post-Hope era.

Was really happy not to have Quentin in this issue. Don't hate him, but he just doesn't seem like a good fit in X-Force for me

[Ian Sharman · Rating 3 out of 5]

This arc really hasn’t grabbed me. I find the whole telefloronics thing a bit beyond me, but on top of that this issue uses the whole “you’re unknowingly working for the very person who wronged you” trope…which is so over done that it was used in the Snake Eyes movie that I watched last night.

Also…come on…a version of Man-Thing who kills people called Man-Slaughter? Maybe I’m just too old to do anything but roll my eyes at that. I usually enjoy Percy’s writing, and this issue certainly isn’t bad…it just didn’t really do anything for me. Maybe it’s because I’ve got too used to single issues also furthering some overarching plot.

The art is also…just ok. I mean, like the writing, it’s not bad, but it could be better.

Overall this is a perfectly decent comic, I’ve just come to expect more from the X-line.

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[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

11 of 16, almost there!!

X-Force has dipped from being brilliant to merely average/slightly above average.

Personally I find the main reason being it's got so convoluted that I've no bloody clue what's going on! It's been 3 years or thereabouts and we still don't know who the bad guy is behind it all, 3 years.....

Lots of action in this issue, I think it may have solved the issue with the evil plants that been bothering them but I'm not certain, it ended rather abruptly.

I actually quite liked Man Slaughter, shame to see him disappear out the picture at the end.

[Mana · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is twice the gates were hacked. There should have never been a third. Reading this now knowing what is coming is just sad. Because the mutants brought it upon themselves. Infighting and hubris brought down Krakoa. This leak should should have been plugged immediately with redundancies in place. But it wasn’t so “fall of x” is where it lead too. Damn. Hopefully they will still have Arrako when all is done. But overall. Excellent read even without knowing the future this was a well executed end to the arc.

[Roman Colombo · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the stranger X-Force storylines. It might be filler, bit Cassara's art is always terrific.

[Jason · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.75

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

The imagery is so cool in this. The plant body on the doctor is my favorite. It was a fitting end to the doctor. A little lacklustre for me but that may be because I've been away so long.