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X-Force (comics)

X-Force
Cover art for X-Force, vol. 3 #1
Art by Clayton Crain
Group publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance New Mutants #100 (April 1991)
Created by Fabian Nicieza
Rob Liefeld
In-story information
Type of organization Team
Agent(s) Current Members:
Doctor Nemesis
Domino
ForgetMeNot
Marrow
Psylocke
Hope Summers
Former Members:
Archangel
Bedlam
Bishop
Boom Boom
Cable
Caliban
Cannonball
Colossus
Cyclops
Cypher
Deadpool
Deathlok
"Domino"
Elixir
E.V.A.
Fantomex
Feral
Forge
Hepzibah
Moonstar
Nightcrawler (AoA)
Prosh
Puck
Rictor
Shatterstar
Siryn
Spiral
Storm
Sunspot
Vanisher
Warpath
Pete Wisdom
Wolfsbane
Wolverine
X-23
Roster
See: List of X-Force members
X-Force
Series publication information
Schedule Monthly
Format (Volume 1)
Ongoing series
(Volume 2)
Limited series
(Volume 3)
Ongoing series
(Volume 4)
Ongoing series
Genre
Publication date (Volume 1)
August 1991 – August 2002
(Volume 2)
January 2004 – March 2005
(Volume 3)
April 2008 – September 2010
(Volume 4)
February 2014 – Present
Number of issues (Volume 1)
129
(Volume 2)
6
(Volume 3)
28
Creator(s) Fabian Nicieza
Rob Liefeld
Collected editions
Counter-X ISBN
Famous, Mutant & Mortal ISBN
X-Force and Cable: Legend Returns ISBN
Angels and Demons ISBN
Old Ghosts ISBN
Not Forgotten ISBN
X-Force/Cable: Messiah War ISBN

X-Force is a fictional team of superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, most commonly in association with the X-Men. Conceived by writer/illustrator Rob Liefeld, the team first appeared in New Mutants #100 (April 1991) and soon afterwards was featured in its own series called X-Force. The group was originally a revamped version of the 1980s team, the New Mutants.

X-Force's first leader was the mutant Cable. An offshoot of the X-Men, X-Force takes a more militant and aggressive approach towards its enemies compared to the X-Men.

The X-Force series was successful in the early 1990s, but its popularity waned after Liefeld left, which caused Marvel to implement several reforms to the title from 1995 until 2001 with varying degrees of success. Low sales on the X-Force series eventually prompted Marvel to revamp the title in 2001 with a new cast in the form of a group of self-interested young mutants who were gathered together by a corporation to become media stars and used the name X-Force. X-Force was canceled with #129 and relaunched as X-Statix, which coincided with a similar rebranding of the team in the story. After X-Statix was canceled with #26, Marvel reunited the original X-Force team for a six-issue 2004 limited series plotted and drawn by Liefeld.

In 20072008, during the Messiah Complex crossover, a new version of the X-Force team was formed with Wolverine leading a more militaristic black-ops branch of the X-Men. This squad would form the basis for a new X-Force series starting February 2008 by writers Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost, plus Clayton Crain as the artist. The series came to a conclusion in September 2010 as part of the Second Coming storyline that ran through various X-titles. The title was then relaunched in October 2010 as Uncanny X-Force with Rick Remender and Jerome Opeña as the creative team and Wolverine, Psylocke, Deadpool, Archangel, Fantomex, and E.V.A. as the initial roster.


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