A Crazy Ending
Let me just say, before anything else, that this issue is beautiful. I LOVE the artwork, especially the colours on this issue. I love that comics have evolved to the point that we can have art to match the content rather than the generic looking stuff we had in the 1990s and prior.
Story-wise I’m not sure what to think. We pick up (more or less) where we left off – all the good guys teleported and standing in from of all the bad guys. Unfortunately, given the relationships between the characters involved (you know exactly who I’m talking about if you’ve been reading), the resolution to the fight is not very surprising at all. What is surprising is what came before and what comes next. The before stuff is neat for the bad guy character interactions and the reveal that Warren is a very different Apocalypse than the Egyptian one. The post fight stuff is interesting because it appears that X-Force will dovetail into Generation X and Avengers: Children’s Crusade and help perhaps reboot the X-Men universe back to where it was before M-Day.
So, although I wasn’t as happy with this issue as with the previous ones, Uncanny X-Force is still one of my favorite X-books. I’m very curious to see how this story is resolved. And the total package was still great enough to warrant five stars.
