Using the Life Seed to fuel the World, Archangel plans to extinguish all life on Earth and reset evolution, enlisting Ozymandias, Dark Beast, the Final Horsemen, Autumn Rolfson and her son Genocide, as well as the AoA Iceman and Blob in his army. They eventually acquire a new Life Seed and use Gateway to return home but discover they are too late as Archangel has completely overtaken Warren. Once they reach the Earth-295, Dark Beast betrays them and cuts them off from their universe, leading X-Force to seek the help of the AoA's X-Men. McCoy proposes that the team accompany him back to his lab in the alternate Age of Apocalypse universe, where he can retrieve a "seed of life" to counteract the "seed of death" that is driving Warren mad. Warren's "Archangel" persona continues to grow stronger, leading X-Force to seek advice from Dark Beast, a former servant of Apocalypse. The rogue Deathlok joins the team and Fantomex is revealed to be growing a clone of the child Apocalypse deep inside the World, unbeknownst to the rest of the team, watched over by Ultimaton. With the aid of a rogue Deathlok unit the team travels inside the World and faces Deathlok versions of themselves while Deadpool kills the architect of Weapon Infinity, the enigmatic Father, erasing the attacking Deathlok strain. Fantomex is attacked by a group of Deathlok cyborgs based on the Avengers who apparently want to kill him and take possession of the World. Deathlok Nation įantomex discovers there's something wrong with the World, as a presence calling itself Weapon Infinity has started manipulating the timestream within. When the group resigns to bring the child back with them and to reeducate him, Fantomex fires a shot in the child's head, killing him. After defeating Apocalypse's Final Horsemen and getting to the young Apocalypse, no one on the team can summon up the courage to kill a child. The first mission of the new team is an assassination job to kill Apocalypse, reborn in the form of a child and being indoctrinated by Clan Akkaba on their Moon base. Plot summary Volume 1 The Apocalypse Solution It features a team of Cable, Psylocke, Fantomex and Marrow. It was written by X-Men: Legacy author Simon Spurrier and illustrated by Rock-He Kim and Jorge Molina. The relaunched Uncanny X-Force is written by Sam Humphries and pencilled by Ron Garney, and features a Psylocke led team with an initial roster of Storm, Puck, Cluster and Spiral.Īs part of the "All-New Marvel NOW!" campaign, a new volume of X-Force was launched in February 2014, replacing Cable and X-Force and Uncanny X-Force vol.2. The title had a three-issue " Fear Itself" tie-in mini-series, written by Rob Williams, with art by Simone Bianchi. They've already made the hard compromises in the past they've all taken life." According to Remender, "This is a group of characters that have had their souls stained by evil forces in the past, a common thread connecting them. The squad features new team members Psylocke, Fantomex, and Deadpool.
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This new series features members of the previous X-Force team, which was to have been shut down by X-Men leader Cyclops due to the existence of the team having been previously exposed and now operates without him knowing. 1, was launched in October 2010 to replace X-Force, vol. Of all the X-books, I've given up on everything except for Uncanny X-Men, X-Force, and X-Factor, but this series is by far the best.Uncanny X-Force, vol. Depending on what Remender has planned for later, this issue could end up being a key issue. Outside of the disturbing scene with Deadpool and Archangel, the issue was great. Remender had me thinking that Wolverine would have to step up at the end. I've seen some Fantomex detractors on a few forums but this issue alone should change any doubtful minds. Well, we're four issues into Remender and Opena's Uncanny X-Force and Fantomex is quickly becoming one of my favorite characters. Even after digging through several wiki's and issue recaps I was still a little confused as far as what exactly his powers were and what the hell E.V.A. 3) was announced, I had to do some reading on him and his background. One of the things that I missed during that time was the New X-Men series from Grant Morrison and Igor Kordey and with it the introduction of Fantomex. I've mentioned before that I was away from comics for quite a few years.