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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
This is a good book and a good value,
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This review is from: X-Force: Famous, Mutant & Mortal (X-Men) (X-Statix) (Hardcover)
I really liked this series. I especially like how this hard cover collects the entire run of Milligan/Allreds X-Force into one easy to read volume. Peter Milligan and Mike Allreds work is very spectacular! I had sworn off of Marvel books around 8 years ago but I could not resist the work of two of my favorites. Peter Milligans writing is quick, witty and interesting and I love Mike Allreds drawing style. My only gripe about this book was that the last issue of the series/collection was drawn by Duncan Fegredo and his artwork is possibly some of the worst artwork I have ever seen in any book. After reading through this large collection it was a bit of a letdown to have the "FINAL ISSUE" be drawn in such a haphazard way. I am serious. A third grader could have drawn the book more enjoyably than Duncan Fegredo! His "artwork" is a big detraction and to me, held this book back from being 5 stars. That being said I would highly recommend this book to anyone who likes irreverant heroes to read.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Not the greatest, but still satisfying,
By A Customer
This review is from: X-Force: Famous, Mutant & Mortal (X-Men) (X-Statix) (Hardcover)
I can't say im a big fan of Marvel in general and X-titles are usually unapealing to me, but i am a fan of Mike Allred. Based on my love for Mike Allred's own Madman, i decided to give X-Force a chance and bought the hardcover version which collects the tpbs as well as some other extras. I wasnt disapointed, the writing by Peter Milligan is decent, better than 80 percent of whats out there at least, and Mike Allred's drawing style is clean, and uniquely his own. Laura Allred's colors are, as always, astoundingly bright and beautiful. The story telling in X-Force is fast paced and teeming with satire. All in all, the book manages to be interesting and hold one's attention, but Id recomend you run to your local comic book store and leaf through the first few pages of the first trade paperback to see if this is really your bag, as the book deals with mature subjects and contains tons of graphic death scenes.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Entertainment and media critique and satire done right and shamelessly fun!,
By Adriano1977 (Langen (Hessen), Deutschland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: X-Force: Famous, Mutant & Mortal (X-Men) (X-Statix) (Hardcover)
Boy am I sore I missed it back then, when Joe Quesada was basically trying to turn all of Marveldom into Vertigo, from stealing their editors to putting their top writers in charge of chunks of the marvel Universe and namely of Marvel's then top franchise: The ever changing world of the X-Men. One year after a daring, very interesting but sadly unsuccessful relaunch of X-Force, they handed the reins to the killer Milligan Allred combo, and I was too shortsighted to notice it was areceipt for greatness. The new X-Force is like a living, walking, teleporting mutant superhero reality show, in which no risk is too great and no excess too, well, excessive. They don't even really own the copyright to the name, which brings them into a short, metacritically ridden and media-like short and inconclusive showdown with the previous X-Force. The team's mortality rate is appalling, and Milligan does a great job of showing it in the first arc, killing off most of the first iteration of the team and most of the second. The show business dynamics are peppered with satire and with Allred's art's absolutely endearing, dead on pop sincerity and deceptively simple naivete, but they are no less dramatic nor do they ring less shockingly true for it. Indeed, quite the contrary! As X-Force survives badly set-up battles, a buyout and an internal fight with their slimy mentor The Coach and we settle into a fixed team, the story loses a bit of the metacritical aspects and goes deeper into character dvelopment and emotional impact, but you never really lose sight of the fact that it may indeed all be staged: Feelings, events, personalities... And indeed, are they not? It's a book about media and entertainment, what is there MORE staged than this? And that is the beauty of it. As the second arc goes on (and sales accordingly dwindled... ), the entertainment satire issues come back to the fore (do not get fooled by the surface: A set-up space mission against fake alien to help the CIA and get pharmaceutical multinational companies off their back :-) and the impending re-booting and re-naming of the book becomes a story point, seamlessly woven into it and adding another few threads to an already fantastically complex tapestry. As to the characters themselves, thanks to Milligan's and Allred's masterful pen- & pencilmanship, all of them, no exception, even the one-page cast offs, come out as strong and vivid as characters with a 30 years background. Heck, even more! Here we have a bunch of psychologically scarred: There are racial issues (Tike "The Anarchist" Alicar's a black mutant is like "black with a little black added" is priceless, and is in part a nice tip of the hat to the house Chris Claremont righteously built), abandonment, escape and loneliness issues (Edie "U-Go Girl" Sawyer, her ruthless climb to fame and her shady, guilt-ridden past), the trappings of an extreme sensitivity literally turned into a superpower (Guy "The Orphan" Smith), arrogant, innerly repressive intellectualism (Myles "Vivisector" Alfred), white trash hip-hop culture and closet homosexuality (Billy Bor "Phat" Reilly). All of them normal guys hell-bent on seeking acceptance, fame and pretty much suicide. It comes as no surprise that the series was doomed from the start and that both Milligan and Allred have had a blast on it in a very nothing-to-lose kind of way. It stands as a testament to the spirit of collaboration that none of them seems to have over-ridden the other's sensibilites, thus creating a nearly perfect sinergy (see the script to the silent issue, included in the back matter of this DVD-style collection), and that the guest artists (Darwyn Cooke and Duncan Fegredo) did a killer job in both keeping the tone of the series and adding their own personal touch to it. As for the collection itself, it is pure Allred greatness and mmore: Fantastic pop design (see the wharolesque inside front and back cover spreads), tons of extras like unused covers, pin-ups, assorted doodles and design sketches by the whole art team, a brief history of how he created the logo, and a script by Milligan that is a blast to read in itself! If you can find it at all, and for a human price, like I did, go for it!!!
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