X-Force # 18 - Not Forgotten: Part Two

SPOILERS AHEAD

 

Synopsis

X-Force picks up with two of the X-Men finding themselves in a predicament. The weak Laura (X-23) has been restrained and is being abducted by H.A.M.M.E.R agents and the weakened Tabitha (Boom Boom) is held against her will in a warehouse. She is rescued by Warpath from her captors. Meanwhile outside the warehouse, near the United Nations building Noriko (Surge) is losing control of her powers; threatening to create a massive power outburst that could possible wipe everything and everyone in her vicinity out but they managed to avoid a catastrophe thanks to Hellion's telekinesis. Wolverine, Archangel and Domino take the unconscious and weakened X-Men back home

 

Meanwhile, in the Colorado Rocky Mountains Wolfsbane and the Wolf Prince have problems of their own. They find themselves fending off giants.
 
The H.A.M.M.E.R agents take the restrained X-23 to somewhere called The Facility where he meets a familiar face - Kimura. She loses consciousness but wakes up to a smiling Kimura - her face covered in blood splatters - only to find that her left  arm has been cut off with a chainsaw.

 

Review

 

There really isn't much in this issue I think is worth to talk about aside from Tabby, Julian and Noriko's rescue and X-23's capture (we'll get to that later). Yeah, there was teaser page (a dead Caliban with Eli Bard and Wither) but there's just not enough detail in it for me to get excited. 
 
Now. About X-23's capture. The last few pages of #18 is so amusing for me, I guess in a morbid kinda way. It felt like something that came out of a morbid psychological killer flick. The plain white backdrop and Kimura's twisted smile, the severed arm, the splatters of blood - like something you'd see from SAW or something. All these help make the X-Force title so much darker as it should - because it is a dark title and they are a dark team.

The art is great. Mike Choi and Sonia Oback continues to do a great job. They could make Laura still look so hot despite hanging from one arm while the other is lying on the floor in a pool of her blood. Sick I know, but they pulled it off.  Dom, Logan and the rest of X-Force still look badass as they should, as did the other X-Men. Props to them

This may be a little harsh but, I think Mike Choi may be the new Rob Liefeld. Why? Well because the guy draws a human torso with like a million muscles on it. It is really ridiculous. Warpath looks like a Native American girl (all be it a very muscle bound one) as he has the most feminine of facial features and the butt muscles on Rahne Sinclair in her Wolfsbane mode…well, they need to be seen to be believed. And who could of missed the last page arm incident…Ha! But we’ll get to that in a bit, what did I actually think if the story? Well, I liked it actually.