We knew about this kid we saw the horrors he did accidentally and we saw his regret. The main difference between the two issues (aside from plot, writer, and artist, of course) is that Ultimate X-Men managed to make you care that Wolverine was killing someone he had no connection with. Wolverine is given the whereabouts of a nazi that tortured Magneto as a child, and Magneto refuses to kill him himself, despite wanting him dead. In a manner of speaking, this is a very similar story to Uncanny X-Force #9. In Ultimate X-Men #41, Wolverine is sent on a secret mission to a small and isolated town in the middle of nowhere where a child’s mutant power activates and he inadvertantly kills his entire town from radiating toxic poison. Has everyone here read Ultimate X-Men? Specifically, Ultimate X-Men #41 by Brian Bendis with art by David Finch? If you haven’t, please go read that and then come back to the article. The biggest complaint I have is when holding this story up to a comic published in 2004. In an issue literally begging for exposition and a scene that is just dying to let Remender extrapolate on the very basis of the secretive nature of the team and why they kill (as Wolverine notes they only go after “threats”, not revenge kills), there’s none. Wolverine questions how Magneto found them, Magneto shrugs it off and asks for help, Wolverine says no, Magneto almost cries, and Wolverine says yes. Then when Magneto confronts Wolverine, you’d imagine there would be some kind of confrontation, but no. There is not a lot of dialogue, and in fact one page simply repeats the same panel with only minor facial changes to Magneto’s expression in order to show how deep he’s thinking about what he wants to ask Wolverine to do. All things considered, this issue lacks a lot of substance, and it’s easily comparable to the previous issue – where Psylocke takes on the Shadow King – simply because that one issue jam-packed so much into such little space, and this issue just kind of rushes through itself. This is supposed to be an emotional issue for obvious reasons, but it never seems to get to that level. The inherent issue I have with the issue, though, is that it doesn’t really take the time to be anything more than that. The issue basically boils down to this: Magneto has a hit that needs to be made, and he reveals that he knows all about X-Force and that he wants them to do it.
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Granted, in a series that has been firing on all cylinders for as many issues as this title has that low point isn’t anything to snub your nose at, but it’s still kind of a disappointment. In fact, an issue that by all rights should have been fantastic ended up being probably the lowest point of this series yet. So with my obvious bias now out of the way, it’s at this point that I inform you that – all things considered, this issue really was not up to par with the previous stories. Rick Remender and his various artists have managed to tell four pretty bad-ass tales throughout 9 issues (including the Point One) that have already outshined the impressive work done by Yost and Kyle when it was just called X-Force and wasn’t quite that uncanny. X-Force, featuring the “dark side” of the X-Men with a covert ops hit squad, is one of the top books over at the X-Camp, and it went from an already good book under Yost and Kyle to an “everybody has to buy this regardless of whether you know who Wolverine is” title. I don’t think that there is a more perfect fit for a book at Marvel than Rick Remender and the Uncanny X-Force (I’m hyperbolizing). Uncanny X-Force is back, and this time they’ve been uncovered! So much for all that covert stuff Wolverine was doing, huh? And wouldn’t you know it, the man who figured it out just happens to be one of the X-Men’s oldest enemies and the man who ripped the adamantium skeleton from Wolverine’s bones! Given that Rick Remender (a writer not known from shying away from the dark) is penning this, we can only expect great things… right?Ĭheck behind the cut to see if this lives up to expectations. Magneto uncovers the existence of X-Force and the only way he’ll keep the team’s secret is if they assassinate a mysterious figure from his past! Who is so important that Magneto would employ such methodology? Why can’t he do the deed himself? The answer is buried in a terrible secret from the ashes of World War II.
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