{"id":2528,"date":"2009-08-28T06:42:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T13:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2009-08-28T06:42:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T13:42:29","slug":"why-i-just-dropped-x-force-from-my-pull-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=2528","title":{"rendered":"Why I Just Dropped X-Force From My Pull List"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past year, I’ve been nothing but unilaterally positive about the comics coming out of Marvel’s X-Office. “If you had told me that I’d be reading both X-Force<\/em> and Cable<\/em> and enjoying them a few years ago, I’d have laughed at you,” is a sentence I’ve uttered more than once. And while I’m still digging Uncanny and Cable quite a bit, I’m not the fan of Warren Ellis’s Astonishing X-Men<\/em> that I should be and, while I love Mike Carey’s work, I hate<\/em> Gambit, which makes me doubtful about whether or not I’ll stick with X-Men Legacy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But what I really want to talk about right now is X-Force<\/em>; my relationship with it is problematic. It’s a team made up of characters I like doing reprehensible things and, in doing so, painfully reminding me that character development is the largest, weightiest Sisyphan boulder in comics. It’s being written by a creative team that won me over after inheriting New X-Men <\/em>from a team (Nunzio DeFilipis and Cristina Weir) that I was incredibly smitten with. The art by Mike Choi and Sonia Oback is phenomenal.<\/p>\n

X-Force<\/em> is, unarguably, the best written and best looking comic that features a sixteen year old girl being tortured with a chainsaw<\/em> that is on stands today. That’s right, folks. X-23, the teenage girl clone of Wolverine, is being held captive and dismembered with a chainsaw.<\/p>\n

Are you fucking kidding me?<\/em><\/p>\n

For a book that is purportedly about a black ops X-Men team, the title has consistently been more invested in traumatizing X-23, a character that Yost and Kyle created. That’s downright fetishistic on a level that makes Chris Claremont’s obsession with Kitty Pryde\/Storm\/Psylocke seem tame and healthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the past year, I’ve been nothing but unilaterally positive about the comics coming out of Marvel’s X-Office. “If you had told me that I’d be reading both X-Force and Cable and enjoying them a few years ago, I’d have laughed at you,” is a sentence I’ve uttered more than once. And while I’m still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,6],"tags":[413,37,218],"class_list":["post-2528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitching","category-comics","tag-comics","tag-marvel","tag-x-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}