Product Description

Break out the Kleenex -- and the body bags -- as the X-Force embarks on its most hazardous mission yet. Whose swan song will it be -- The Orphan's? The Anarchist's? U-Go Girl's? Or maybe even Doop's?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #148608 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Customer Reviews

Tired of X-MEN stories? Well, check this...
At 46 of age and after quite an history of reading comics, I just recently came back to the MARVEL Universe and the work of the ALLREDS (husband and wife I've gathered) sure helped. The stories are very good (MILLIGAN) but the drawings and colors are something else if you are into the "ligne claire" (Hergé, Jacobs, Clerc, Benoit and the like) as much as into Stan LEE. Last, but not least, to this day, everything I've hunted (on Amazon, where else?) and read by the ALLREDS has been top.

STILL not your typical X-Book....
This graphic novel, which reprints X-Force #121-129 continues to follow the story of X-Force, a band of mutants more committed to pursuing their own celebrity than doing the right thing. The only possible exception is their tortured leader, the Orphan, who is often treated as an outsider because of his morals.

**The first few issues introduce us to Lacuna, a beautiful young mutant who has the ability to slip in and out of time, a talent she uses for some interesting effects.

**Next is X-Force's entry in the "Nuff Said" month when all issues were silent. The story focuses on Doop and is most amusing.

**Then is Edie's turn in the spotlight, pointing out just a few of the reasons that U-Go Girl might be like she is.

**The second half of the graphic novel is one long story arch that brings in issues from previous in the series and throws some new spins on them. These issues were also published after 9-11, and the government has done a few interesting and questionable things in the name of liberty.

This graphic introduces a lot of new characters, and kills quite a few off. Being a member of X-Force means that your pink slip is likely to be shrouded over your coffin. There's also a very interesting mix of member relationships formed and broken apart in here.

If you like this graphic, it's not the last in the series, the series name simply changes to X-Statix.

Recommended, but not for readers under 13.

Awesome
Picking up where New Beginnings left off, X-Force: The Final Chapter collects the final issues of the Peter Milligan/Mike Allred X-Force before it would be re-launched as X-Statix (which has sadly just ended). Continuing the idea of a commercial based mutant team brought together to pretty much make money, the group is joined by the appropriately named Dead Girl, and introduced to the Spike and Lacuna. The book is surprisingly action packed and Milligan's storytelling is simply awesome, and his Doop story is worth the price of admission alone. Those used to the other militaristic team X-Men books or the old X-Force books may have a hard time getting into Mike Allred's art or the sheer absurdity of the story, but it's sure worth a look, and once it would get re-launched as X-Statix would this become something really special.