3.66 AVERAGE


Read as single issues.

This was a good addition to the Dawn of X portfolio. After a shocking character death and subsequent event (predictable for anyone who has read House of X/Powers of X), we really get into what makes this team good.

Beast: The brains. The master planner behind the scenes.
Wolverine: Snikt. Stabbystabbystabby.
Quentin Quire: Snark, makes his own reality.
Domino: guns, luck, more guns, more luck.

I loved the team dynamic. The artwork fit the dark, gritty, gory mood perfectly. I'm excited to see where the next few story arcs go because this is shaping up to be a fun, explosive ride.

Recommended for fans of X-Men and the above characters.

4.5/5

At the end of the day, if you are going to begin reading Dawn of X, then X-Force is a must read and should be at the top of the stack along with Hickman's main X-Men series. If you like political and corporate espionage you will have a lot of fun. 4.5/5 Twinkles

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Maybe my favorite of the Dawn of X kickoff series, if only for
CIA Beast, Domino patches, Wolverine's character appropriate distrust of Krokoan security.
adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
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ladyk2387's review

4.0
adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

X-force might be my favorite Dawn of X title purely thanks to the visceral satisfaction of a black ops team. I would agree that the forming of X-Force as a reaction seems out of character, but there's some evidence that suggests this might have been intentional to make a point.
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lanternatomika's review

4.0

This book is pretty great! The idea of having a spy thriller set in this politically charged Krakoan Age of the X-Men is a pretty obvious fit, and X-Force certainly delivers on its promise. This book is full of big moments, and Benjamin Percy gets really creative with his cast of characters.

Those characters are, in some ways, a weakness of the book, too. The story of the book is really big, so it might be expected that the characters would get lost in the shuffle, but the most famous X-Force run had higher stakes and better characterization. I'm hoping that X-Force can find some time going forward to actually build the characters of people other than Beast.

Still, if you're looking for some mutant black ops action, X-Force is a neat book!

this started off strong by killing off charles just for him to jump scare me and come back

It’s not my favorite title out of the current X books. It’s a little dark for my tastes, honestly. But it’s compelling nonetheless.