Comic book crossovers are like a party. Characters come over, hang out, have a good time, put their feet up on the furniture, and then after leaving a mess for the host to clean up, they go their own way. Marvel, because of the leaving-the-mess-behind part, had not done an X-Men crossover in over a decade until this fall's cataclysmic "Messiah Complex." But even that storyline left a mess behind that had to be cleaned up. The X-Men were on the hunt for the first mutant child born since House of M depopulated Marvel's mutant population. Not everything went well, and that's where February's X-Force #1 comes in!
In the aftermath of "Messiah Complex," Cyclops comes to realize that there are some problems the X-Men simply aren't equipped to deal with. Special circumstances call for special operatives, and he assembles a new X-Force team � Wolverine, Warpath, X-23, and Wolfsbane � to handle the dirty jobs, the questionable jobs that no one else can handle � or be trusted to handle! New X-Men writers Craig Kyle and Chris Yost and artist Clayton Crain open a new chapter in X-Force history in the first part of "Angels and Demons" as the team comes together for their first assignment, one that the X-Men can never know about!
No Marvel mutant fan will want to miss this high-octane team book. With a line-up of some of the X-Men's most feral characters, X-Force #1 promises action and excitement as the team takes on the dirty missions � and the post-crossover-party clean-up! Look for X-Force #1 in this month's Marvel Previews, and catch the excitement!
The following are two color pages from February's Fantastic Four #554, the February debut issue of the reunited Ultimates creative team of Mark Millar and Hitch, as well as two pages from the like-wise February debuting X-Force #1.
The pages come courtesy Diamond again, but this time from their consumer-oriented (i.e. reader) Previews website.
Here are the pages along with the information about both series from Diamond's site, followed (again) by the preview images previously seen on Newsarama for both titles.
FANTASTIC FOUR #554
by Mark Millar & Bryan Hitch
Who is Mrs. Fantastic? And how will her return into Reed's life rock comicdom's First Family? Also, get ready to meet the Invisible Woman's brand new super-team! This issue kicks off a year-long storyline that will make Fantastic Four "The World's Ultimatest Comic Magazine!"
FC, 32 pages $2.99
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Last edited by endrict on Dec 29th, 2007 at 10:56 PM
The dream team of Millar & Hitch finally get rolling with FF.
Exxxxxcellleennt.
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I like X-Forces. I found it interesting with good art and characterizations.
Much better then the original X-Forces.
New fatastic four meh.
Though I am glad they kept humantorch and thing theyare may two favorite memebers. But Blank Panthers is really no upgrade for mr. fantastic and storm is relaly no improvement to sue. I also hate some of the crap that has happen with black panther.
I'm enjoying X-Force far more then Uncanny X-Men, Young X-Men, Wolverine and Cable. Actually Cable doesn't count cause it's an abomination.
C & C & C make an amazing team.
Good start i must say and i'm liking the artwork sorta like ghost rider: Road to damnations style. The villains are okay for the moment but i'm guessing they will fight alot more stronger ones rather then strykers religous group to really put this new X-force teams skills to the test.
Last edited by Kazenji on Apr 11th, 2008 at 02:36 PM
the chick is some new supervillian that Johnny stops, and instead of taking to jail, takes home and has sex with. Soooo yeah. I liked the first two issues of Millar's run, but his characterization of Johnny is a little off. I feel like he's come further than Millar is depicting him.
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