FREE X-FORCE BY CRAIG KYLE & CHRIS YOST: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION VOLUME 2 PDF Craig Kyle,Christopher Yost,Clayton Crain,Mike Choi | 384 pages | 09 Sep 2014 | Marvel Comics | 9780785190004 | English | New York, United States x-force – Eric Watson Uncanny X-Force proves every bit the powerhouse comic with a small cast of well-written characters, a stable of solid artists, and an awesome villain that comes from within. Thus begins my grand catching-up of X-Force by Craig Kyle & Chris Yost: the Complete Collection Volume 2 last ten years of Marvel comics, events and stories. Like my gaming Final Thoughts, this will be full of spoilers. Even with my lofty expectations Uncanny X-Force proved every bit the powerhouse comic with a small cast of well-written characters, a stable of solid artists, and an awesome villain that comes from within. Unlike the previous iteration, this team is much less linked with ongoing mutant drama, making it much easier to pick up and read. And like the old team, they have no compunction about killing their targets — but what if that target is a child, or one of their own? Like a fire. Well the two-years in the making sequel, Second Comingmakes that look like crap. X-Men: Second Coming finally brings Hope, the young mutant messiah, back into our timeline. At the end of Messiah Complex Cable took the first mutant baby born since M-Day forward into the future to escape danger even though just about every future scenario is super dangerous. Bishop, on a quest to prevent his own apocalyptic future, hunts them down through time. What followed was a pretty nice two year arc of Cable as a tough-love dad with Hope growing up knowing only war, danger, X-Force by Craig Kyle & Chris Yost: the Complete Collection Volume 2 survival. It was a very bloody, very violent series with some spiffy art. And at some point Marvel started up a mostly unnecessary but surprisingly decent New Mutants series. The dead return in the somewhat disappointing X-Necrosha event, though the rest of the Volume is solid. Remember when I was just discussing Uncanny X-Men and bemoaning the emphasis on big crossover events? Well pretty much right after the events of Utopia we swing right into X-Necroshaan X-Force event involving the vampire Selene and an army of resurrected mutants. Thankfully the story-telling is much more structured, taking place entirely within X-Force while X-Men: Legacy and New Mutants take over some tangentially related story arcs with different teams. X-Necrosha is an interesting idea but ultimately the weakest arc out of an otherwise continued great run of X-Force. The time traveling crossover between Cable, Bishop, and X-Force leads to an ultimately pointless battle against a lame villain. I am a child of the atom, raised in a future that no longer exists. Centered around the first mutant birth since House of MMessiah Complex launched several new series, including a new, hyper- violent X-Force and the time-traveling, on-the-run survival story in Cable. Messiah War acts as a smaller, more focused sequel, but it ultimately comes across as a pointless Saturday Morning Cartoon in X-Force by Craig Kyle & Chris Yost: the Complete Collection Volume 2 nothing really changes at the end. Writer: Duane Swiercynski. I watched the first two Terminator films at a fairly young, impressionable age. He quickly became a very 90stastic creation, with overly convoluted plots and ridiculous situations. Cable received his first solo series in years in as a direct follow-up to the events in Messiah Complex. X-Force expertly layers in several explosive, fun story beats and far-reaching plot threads while the accompanying water-color art relishes in its violently bloody melee combat. First there was House of Min which the Scarlet Witch reduced the mutant population of the world from millions to several hundred with three little words. Several years later the epic X-Men crossover event Messiah Complex gave us the first mutant birth since that day, and everyone wanted to get their hands on this miracle child. Knowing the depths of which evil, bigoted humans and evil mutants would go, and seeing their backs firmly up against the wall, Cyclops finally becomes the leader we were all waiting for. Cyclops gives Wolverine the missions and he keeps the rest of the X-Men completely in the dark — even to the point of using the Cuckoos telepathic triplets to block Emma Frost from probing his mind about it. Kyle and Yost spend quite a bit of time on the Purifiers and their own cultish motivations and inner drama. She takes the wings back to the Purifiers. Instead of attacking the X-Men, however, Risman seizes his chance to swiftly attack Bastion and the other Purifiers! Angel had become a super boring character for years, and X-Men writers rarely even included him in most adventures. Credit to X-Force then for making Angel not only a badass as X-Force by Craig Kyle & Chris Yost: the Complete Collection Volume 2 steel razor-sharp winged Archangel, but a complicated character who has to battle his inner rage of having the Death persona take control of his thoughts and actions. That whole first arc ends in a fantastically bloody and crazy battle between Purifiers and X-Force. Of course we also get some just plain awesome fight scenes between Bastion and Wolverine, and Archangel kills dozens of Purifiers in a fit of rage. X-Force is sent to retrieve a deadly sample of the Legacy Virus, recently stolen by a teleporting mutant called Vanisher. The virus is a famous plot device from years ago that only targets and kills mutants. The team soon runs into Domino, a former X-Force member, lover of Cable, and all around snarky and awesome Deadpool-esque fighter. Domino adds some much needed levity and one-liners to this normally dour and serious group. Taking on Vanisher becomes darkly humorous as the teams splits up to cover all his safe houses. He teleports to each one, getting sliced, shot, and attacked at each one before Elixir touches him mumbling an apology. He has the power to manipulate the inner workings of the human body, mostly to heal people but can also cause great harm he single-handedly killed Stryker. In this case, he gives Vanisher a brain tumor with the little X logo on it. Vanisher freaks out and reminds me of that classic whiny sidekick villain from a kids movie, but here done in a legitimately funny and enjoyable way. Him and Domino both are fantastic additions to the team, while Exliir is really only used as the situation dictates. Meanwhile both Warpath and Wolfsbane are given rather strange side quests which have little to do with the main plot. Then Ghost Rider shows up to help him fight it. Wolfsbane is given such horrible treatment that I was constantly annoyed with her arc throughout. Here is a character that was specifically ripped from her role in X-Factor only to be captured off screen in the first issue of X-Forceused as a pawn by the bad guys, then rendered untrustworthy by the good guys. Being totally unaware of her character pre- X-Factor it did nothing for me, nor had anything to do with anything else. I love you X-Force but your treatment of Rahne Sinclair is just really crappy. Our heroes get teleported away to the future just as they reach the Leper Queen, and she just straight-up murders her most recent victim, the mutant Boom-Boom. Despite some glaring mistreatment of certain characters and a lot of stories going on, I really did enjoy X-Force. Even when the comic briefly switches artists to the slightly brighter work of Mike Choi it still meshed very well. Reading Messiah Complex and a good chunk of New X-Men is recommended to get the full breadth of these characters and situations, making X-Force a tricky jumping-on point for X-Force by Craig Kyle & Chris Yost: the Complete Collection Volume 2 converts. X-Men: Messiah Complex successfully crossed over with four ongoing X-titles to give my favorite mutants their most exciting, action-packed adventure in years. A baby changes everything. Sometimes a baby can even change an entire race of people. At the end ofhope finally came in the form of the first mutant to be born since M-Day, a miracle child that everyone from the X-Force by Craig Kyle & Chris Yost: the Complete Collection Volume 2 to the Marauders to the Purifiers wanted to get their hands on. Also, five X-Force by Craig Kyle & Chris Yost: the Complete Collection Volume 2 at the time, holy crap. Mini-stories were included at the end of each series called X-Men Endangered Species. Instead of creating its own limited event series with a few tie-ins as House of M and Civil War had doneThe writers came together and turned their own series into one massive crossover event. After kicking things off with a one-shot issue, the next chapter was done in Uncanny X-Menfollowed by X-Factoretc, going through the four trades three times for 13 total issues including the one-shot. This created some major advantages and disadvantages to normal event structures. The good news is it meant instead of having a bunch of extra superfluous tie-ins, the event itself was the only tie-in, and it had a huge amount of space to breathe and develop.