Marvel, crawling out of creative and financial bankruptcy, appointed almost entirely new leadership in their comic division around 2001. This lasted for roughly 15 issues before the team, and the entire core concept behind it, were overhauled completely. He turned Cannonball, Boom-Boom, Domino, Warpath, and Bedlam into a covert ops group handled by Pete Wisdom and the British government. X-Force, along with Generation X and X-Man were handed over to Warren Ellis, the legendary writer who was then hip-deep in Planetaryand Transmetropolitan. Along with the rest of the X-comic line, there was a flurry of change ahead of the new movie and the impending anniversary issue, X-Men #100.
The ongoing changes eventually ground down the book’s identity, and while it went on being published for 100 issues, it lost the voice it burst onto the scene with and became just another X-Men book with a different cast. The team added and lost members – Mirage, the Cheyenne former leader of the New Mutants Rictor, an earthquake-causing geomorph Siryn, Banshee’s daughter and Sunspot, the rich Brazilian ex-New Mutant and best Avenger ever are among the most famous of the rotating cast.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t a very sustainable thesis for a long-term single run.Ĭaught up in the tumult of real world bullpen politics, X-Forcesaw some significant changes early in its run, including the departure of its creator, Rob Liefeld, and a shift in publishing strategy towards editor-driven annual crossovers. That mission statement would stick: every reinvention of the team (but one) would be centered around using whatever means necessary to proactively protect mutantkind. They rebranded as X-Force and set out to influence the future by being proactive in their own time. They added former Hellion and younger brother of the deceased Thunderbird, Warpath Feral, a savage, former Morlock cat lady and Shatterstar, a Mojoverse refugee who carried two swords with parallel blades. The then-core team consisted of time-displaced military leader Cable heart of the New Mutants and secretly the most popular guy in the Marvel universe Cannonball ultimate survivor and friend of Beyonders Boom-Boom and preternaturally fortunate mercenary Domino. After leaving Magneto, and following a series of defections, deaths and new colleagues joining the team, they cast out on their own and were eventually taken under the wing of Cable, a mysterious mutant from the future, and trained not to be pacifist schoolchildren, but a preemptive strike force.
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