Exit Axel... Enter X-Force
This comic marked a new age for Marvel comics. No CCA stamp and a load of former Vertigo comic alumni: Peter Milligan (Shade The Changing Man and Enigma), Michael Allred (Vertigo Visions - The Geek) and former Vertigo editor Axel Alonso (Hellblazer and Preacher).
This comic has the old Karen Berger Vertigo using DCU character formula of taking a series that is not doing so well, taking a brave writer to take it in a different direction and making sure the artist can see the writer's vision to the end. Axel Alonso takign what he learned at Vertigo manufactured the same feel here in a bold superhero comic going in the opposite direction of where it was going.
Like how Grant Morrison had to kill off old members of Doom Patrol to see his vision, Peter Milligan kills off a few guys in this issue alone. Fresh start with fresh players, it just makes sense.
The art is wonderful. Mike and Laura Allred make this comics visually stimulating with their pop culture art. The X-Force team that Milligan and Allred created become great parodies of pop culture. This is one of the smartest superhero books of its time.
If you can find this issue or the first trade of Milligan/Allred's X-Force give it a shot, you do yourself an injustice not reading it.
5/5 Stars
Cheers!
- Silkcuts
