Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender is Near-Perfect
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- From 2010 through 2013, writer Rick Remender wrote a complete comic for Marvel called Uncanny X-Force. The concept was a "black ops" type team of X-Men that would proactively hunt down threats like Apocalypse. The book is relatively unique in that it had no interruptions for crossovers or guest stars. It tells a complete story - beginning, middle, and end - that changes every team member physically or emotionally. In my opinion, it's nearly perfect. It features deep themes including nature vs. nurture, with the team facing variations of doppleganger versions of themselves. This review breaks down what Remender does well and what the book is about but is relatively spoiler free.
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You should have a Previously on X-Month... parody at least once
Hey man, can you do some collabs with some other TH-camrs, I like your content but you're woefully undersubscribed. I'd like to see more people get exposed to you so you don't languish in obscurity :)
ComicTropes Can you do a video on Jason Aaron’s X-men run?
ComicTropes so I take it you were just joking and being facetious when you said that this was going to be a spoiler-free review?!
How the hell is revealing that one of X-Force members kills Baby Apocalypse not a spoiler?!
How is revealing that Psylocke kills her liver Archangel to save the world not a spoiler?!
How the hell is revealing what the murderer of Baby Apocalypse does afterwards not a spoiler?!
Do you come from another universe where spoiler means something entirely different from what it does in ours?!
I was about ready to go purchase this off of ComiXology until you went and spoiled the 3rd Act of volumes 1 and 2 of it you lying jackass!
This is one of favorite Xmen stories. Fantomex, Psylocke, and Archangel truly shine in this series. It was cool to see the AOA Wolverine. Well executed series that should have another run with new original stories.
You missed an opportunity with the intro, it should've gone like this
"Oh hi, you caught me looking at the logo to Deadly Class to avoid copyright strikes."
I really wish series would have the art teams stay for the entire run.
We all wish that, dude
Yep. The industry just hates artists.
One reason why I love Ultimate Spider-Man by Brian Michael Bendis & Mark Bagley.
These companies need to pay artists well.
Opeña's art was perfect. I wish he would have done the whole thing.
This series is how I first found Remender and now he's one of my absolute favourite writers.
Why can't Marvel do more uninterrupted runs without crossovers? At this point I don't just wait for the trade I wait for the run to end so I can see if it's interrupted by a crossover I have no interest in reading. Marvel keeps becoming a smaller and smaller percentage of my reading despite having 90% of the characters I grew up caring about.
We only have Immortal Hulk at the moment and that is all.😭
When you showed the panel of Deadpool slicing chunks of himself to feed Archangel I was having breakfast. Yack dude, that was tough.
Enjoying your food?
Wow that sucks
Wow... You're a pussy
@Jason Smith do you think talking shit online makes you tough lmao
@@kevinzhu6417 do you think calling someone out makes you tough?
Remender is one of my favorite writers. He's Venom run is my favorite run of all time! 🖤
facts! he made venom cool again
The only time i found Deadpool not to be a boring character.. Remender is a fabulous writer; I m still shocked by the quality of Fear Agent to this day
Deadpool the good,bad,and the ugly was also pretty good. It depends who's writing since for the most part he's not boring
@@shayscruggs7829 probably because i dont like the character much from the start, but you re right; it probably depends on the writer
Dp was great up until the tiamat saga. Then it kinda goes the goofy way.
I agree. I am in the minority here but I love Deadpool when he exists in the continuity w/o breaking the fourth wall.
@@articuliere The character which Fabian Nicieza originally wrote was meant to be darkly humorous mercenary. The original character wasn't really boring unless one is not a fan of dark humor in characters. Then again people find Cyclops an interesting character so go figure. Unfortunately Deadpool got more and more over exposed like Wolverine and thus became more of a parody than what was intended. They Basically turned him into a loony tunes character.
But some writers (Remender) for example wrote him very well.
Great essay! X-Force is still my favourite mainstream Remender book. His collaborations with Opena never disappoint.
You give it a recommend... I give it a rickremend!
Have you read his whole marvel run? It's like a saga. I actually enjoy his stuff more than I did Hickman's.
@@redacted7989 me too
Remender has a much better handle on pacing and dialogue
Another great episode Chris, I've been reading comics for over 20 years now and it's amazing how educational this channel is, I'm learning things specifically about creators I didn't know before, the channel is also the fuel, edging me on to finish a comic book I've been lazy about completing for years, thanks man, truly.
Totally agree with you on so much! I loved this run of Uncanny X-Force. He did an amazing job of having a slick, good story. At Emerald City Comicon a few years back, I got to meet Rick Rememder and talked to him about his run on Uncanny X-Force. I told that I normally find Deadpool way too annoying of a character to enjoy in some cases (there's just only so many 4th-wall breaks I can take) and Rick told me that he hadn't read much Deadpool, so that was probably why. That shocked me, cause he still stayed true to the character. An excellent writer and good guy!
I really miss Rick Remender on Marvel but they really screwed him over his own independent books are great tho
I'm rewatching this episode just because I love this run of X-Force so much
One of my favorite books ever. I originally read a lot of it online but wound up buying as many issues as I could find at local shops- missing only two issues. D'oh! Still in love with all the covers and amazing artists and stories, though. Thanks for refreshing my memory about it!
This was one of my favorite series, well, ever. I was a big Deadpool fan, but by the time Uncanny X-Force came around, I felt that writers were in competition with each other to make DP as wacky and goofy as possible. Remender returned the underlying pathos to the character, which had been pretty much absent since Joe Kelly. In my opinion, issue #7 is among my favorite DP stories.
I love this run too! The only negative I could think of is the art on the "Otherworld" storyline in the run. It's just terrible. Would've been PERFECT had they gotten Alan Davis to draw those 4 or 5 issues, especially as it deals with a lot of the Captain Britain/Excalibur stuff Davis came up with.
I liked how they dealt with the Nazi Logan kills. Not that the Nazi who made free choices for his crimes is the same as Logan. But as I was taught at my time in the military and to paraphrase the lesson my seargent gave me; regardless of why you killed someone; regardless of the reasons you did it (and you may have a very good reason) that person had people who loved them, and regardless what your reason is; it won't remove the fact that you killed thier loved one.
That isn’t to defend Nazi’s, just that what I remember; Logan agrees with the Nazi’s statement. Also a few of the Logan stories seem to show that he see's himself as a broken and horrible person. And as a former Marine the idea of the loved people of your victims coming back to punish you for your your crimes spoke to me. And maybe I am wrong in my interpretation. Loved to see your synopsis for the book.
This was the comic series that made me like Deadpool. The relationship between Deadpool and Fantomex was so good. Fun fact, a friend of mine met Remender and he knew Remender is a fan of Grant Morrison. He told him about this character Morrison created called Fantomex and Remender was very responsive to it. Lo and behold, Fantomex appears in UXF...
Did the intro have Freddie Mercury as Padme on your wall in the background?
Weird cross-over...
I would literally kill for a Deadpool solo run written by Remender.
I need to Remember to Read the Remainder of wRiter Rick Remender's Run on iRon Man.
"Deadly Class" is something every fan of comics should be reading.
Great episode. I absolutely love that run and I am so excited for all of X-Month.
As time goes on it seems like it is the best run ever , art story character writer just damn perfect ...nuff said
This is one of the greatest X-Men stories ever.
Its a very good run
One of my favourite three X-Men runs, the other two being Chris Claremont on Uncanny X-Men and Mike Carey on X-Men: Legacy
I read this years ago. Glad to see people still talk about it.
Another great video, You always pick interesting topics not covered in other TH-cam comic fan channels.
Can we all talk about how the whole of Opena's work looks AMAZING the way it does mostly because of White's coloring?!
Uncanny X Force and Old Man Logan got me reading comics again after a long hiatus. UXF is insanely good and extremely shocking
What a great book. I loved his interpretation of Fantomex and Deadpool. And of course Archangel and Psylock. Pretty much the entire story was brilliant. Good stuff
It's funny you talk about a beginning, middle, end.
I'm, working on a video series (won't advertise here, and you won't find it on my name) on Batman: Knightfall, and for all the technical and story problems (and there are many), the story over a year has a clear beginning, middle and end, and even it's sub arcs have completion, and for that reason it was very satisfying.
The omnibus for this run is being released in a couple weeks. Nice.
jesot ok i was confused at first, seen this comment elsewhere. I have 1 i picked up just a few months back, but i can see Amazon is restocking them and Ebay sellers (as usual) are trying to gauge ppl. I did see 1 for around $70+ shipping, not a bad price
Must be a reprint because i read through my friends omnibus like 5 years ago
It's a reprint, Whedon's Astonishing X-Men is also getting reprinted next month. They've been two of the hardest to find for an affordable price for awhile now
Amazing to find out that your opinion on Uncanny X-Force is so similar to my own. I don't know if I would call it perfect, but when I think about an entire well contructed comic run, X-Force by Remender is always on the top of my mind
Uncanny X-Force was superb and this has inspired to give it a re-read. Thank you.
“ I would love to break these individual stories down, but then I would be spoiling it for you!“
*laughs in ComicStorian*
Remender is one of the few writers who if I see his name on a book I don't need any more convincing to buy it
I got back into comics as this run was going on and as you can imagine with content this good, I dove back in hard. I bought it because the team on the cover was like one of my handpicked X-men squads, and immediately had to go back for the previous issues. I then realized hey this same guy is writing all my favorite books right now, like Venom. Fans should also not overlook his Secret Avengers run, as that and X-Force actually carry plot points into Uncanny Avengers (the first volume), with the 3 books making up one massive story Remender was seeding.
Later issues of Secret Avengers actually pair Remender with Matteo Scalera, who blew my mind, which I’m grateful for as the pairing led to Black Science
This was the best X-Force. Period.
It was during that time where Wolverine and Deadpool where EVERYWHERE in comics and I wasn't a fan of the latter... until this series where Wade Wilson wants to do good. Won't kill a kid. Doesn't even cash the cheques Archangel gives him.
This was such a freakin’ cool series man. I picked up the first trade after seeing you call it near-perfect and you weren’t kidding. Some of the best mutant-related stuff I’ve read easily
This is a truly an excellent comic series. I have read the Rick Remender X-force run several times over and loved it.
I've never been big on anything Marvel related, but this series looks amazing and I'm honest to God thinking about picking it up.
Remo Stopka Uncanny X-Force is one the best written X-Men stories ever and imo the best Marvel story written in the past 25 years. It’s worth your time.
You definitely should pick it up! UXF Vol 1 is amazing and a must read at least up until the end of Dark Angel arc
Start here with x-force then grab his uncanny avengers and Capt America run. It all builds up into an event called Axis. Definitely worth grabbing the graphics novels and reading through. It's like the star wars of marvel books everything just links together.
Great stuff, Love the whole run but my favorite is the final execution saga, so good
This book really fell to pieces without him.
This was one of the first comics to actually get me into collecting oddly,always good to come back to-great video!
You are the best Comic book channel in the English language! Thx for all these amazing videos!!
Great run! The Mark Brooks speed paint TH-cam video of him drawing a page for the Remender run is what 1) got me reading and appreciating the book itself and 2) compelled me to make the leap and utilize a stylus to make digital or hybrid art (which has made a world of difference) and 3) get back into the X-Peoples a bit after I sorta fell outta love with them for a while.
Good stuff. Thanks again, Chris!
oh wow, that's a deep cut, in Grant Morrison's New X-Men run, Fantomex teamed up with Wolverine and Cyclops into a facility where time was standing still as they discover a new Weapon plus program robot. That's the issue where we learned about Captain America was the first Weapon Plus, but yeah, good video.
Always great content
Why's everything always about the next tv show or movie? Can't comics ever be enough? Who cares if a million people like a watered down version of anything, I'll stick with comics not caring what others think or don't know
Just today i was remembering this great run
I absolutely loved this run of X-Force! The Dark Angel Saga is one of my favorite X related story arcs of all time. Great breakdown video.
THIS! Love Remenders work, especially his run on Secret Avengers. I’m a Captain Britain fan and I don’t think anyone has written him better than Rick has.
Alan Moore is still the best Captain Britain writer in my opinion.
Lord D I love the world building Moore did in his run and he gave us some great villains I just prefer the cynical version of Brian Remender gave us
Rick Remender needs to return!!
These comic tropes have become part of my Sunday morning routine along with a hearty breakfast sets me up for the day. Thanks Chris!
I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!!!!
Im from Mexico and I've been a comic book lover since I was a child, my dad bought me comic books to get me to read and it became a really great bonding time between myself and my father.
When I was a teen comics in my country where scarcely published and some publishers had random dates for new issues and TPB (In México the publishing rights for Marvel and DC where acquired by Editorial Vid) and then the Marvel Cinematic Universe begun.
It was a whole new era for comics in my country lots of Marvel and DC comics were being released but must importantly, my country got they're first TPB, Omnibuses and Hard Covers. My father and I began to buy every single Marvel and DC collected series, but time caught up with me. I started to go to college and even though my dad and I kept buying everything that came out, I couldn't keep up with college and my comic reading.
It came to the point of having a full library of Marvel/DC and some other things I thought I would never read in spanish from Watchmen to Hellboy, Preacher, Kick Ass, V for Vendeta, Southern Bastards, Saga, Invincible, etc.
Today I was watching this video and suddenly came to me "Wait a minute, I think I got a omnibus of that" and yes there It was on a shelf, the whole Remender run in one Book.
I love this channel because with every video you remind me of everything I love in the comic industry and also I learn so much of new and important things like lettering and rediscover things like Uncanny X-Force.
Keep up the great work. The Hellboy episode is my favorite!
Just a suggestion, But have you considered doing the spider man book that Jim Butcher wrote? maybe like a mini episode or something like that? I think you'd really enjoy it!
9:48 "one's nature is not set in stone, it's their life experience who determine who they are" nurture, man.
I remember about 4 years ago, WHSmiths here in the UK had a comic called Wolverine and Deadpool, it was a comic that printed stories a couple years too late. When I was 13/14 I had a subscription to Wolverine and Deadpool and I couldn’t stand the wait each month when they printed uncanny x-force, one of the best stories and art I’ve ever seen
Maybe I'll give it a second chance, the first arc left me a bit indifferent.
Love Uncanny XForce..best Xmen story to come out in recent memory. I love Opena's art, I wished he did all the art for the book.
I’m so glad you covered this run. It’s one of my favorite that I picked up on a whim seeing the team composition and the story plus art was top notch. Fantastic review of the whole thing. But correct me if I’m wrong, isn’t the beast that you’re referencing in this video actually dark beast?
It's crazy that you did this video because I just realized read remender's uncanny x-force all the way thru Captain America, uncanny avengers, and Axis (which is really underrated) and I gotta say man you should do the trilogy. I think this was the great unsung saga of this era of marvel, and it gets over shadowed by Hickman's avengers run too often. So yeah. You got a vote for a video series here brother.
Just read through Uncanny Avengers -- the wrap up of these threads is absolutely epic. The whole package is a staggering mix of everything we love. Def consider it all connected.
I just learn about Deadly Class then learn it’s cancelled??? GODDAMMITT.
AwesOme read in TPB format Indeed!!
X force n Venom's Remender run were peak marvel
Would you mind talking about X-Men's history with it's anti discrimination and anti bigotry themes? Are they really a dated metaphor now?
Considering how much discrimination and bigotry still exist in the world, i don't think it's dated. And it would make a great episode.
@@orinanime there really not as much today as it was back then. I can still walk down the street without worrying about the kkk
@@goodgamesir1750 oh it wasn't as out in the open for quite a long time. And you're right; it's not as bad. But it is in a lot of places. And in America it's been making a comeback.
I was going to do a video on death of the author involving how X-Men (namely the movies) were intended to be open metaphors for race, orientation, etc but make a great 2nd amendment argument.
I've been chasing the high from this ever since but haven't found anything close. House of X was great but X books havent really had anything great since then.
I wasn't too impressed until 9:21. I'm a total sucker for time travel / alternate timeline stories.
It’s like an exiles an story with much better artwork
I was bidding on an eBay auction for the entire run the other day for $140 but I lost... I had a feeling it was good, cause a lot of the issues are valuable. as soon as I saw the title of this video I immediately went back to eBay and bought the entire run for a $150.
I bought mine if EBay a few years ago and resold easily for a wash
I read it and I'm ready for the breakdown!
Holy crap is that Freddie mercury as princess Amidala? I would buy the hell out of that!
As Queen Amidala.
You became one of my favorite youtube channels! And i have to admit that in switzerland we mostly read european comics growing up. Looking forward to see your channel hit the 100k subscribers this year.
Greetings from zurich
If this month is for x-men, should we call it January red, gold, blue or uncanny January?
10:13 So he's like the exact opposite of Grant "I Brought This Character Into This World, And So Help Me, I'll Take Him Out Of This World, Even If Other People Are Using Him To Great Effect Right Now" Morrison?
What? No. I'm not still salty about Batman, Inc. Why do you ask?
I'm only getting into comic (read Watchmen - loved it, read Marvels and Ruins - loved it, currently reading Animal Man vol.1) stumbled upon this video while looking for something X-Men related to read.
Stopped after Deadpool feeding the Archangel bit to avoid spoilers. Jfc this is genius, how do you even come up with something like this???
It also has the greatest art of any comic book ever.
I quite liked this run, though the return to the Age of Apocalypse setting was where I started missing issues and fell away from it. AoA had a lot of problems especially with its secondary cast but I wasn't a huge fan of destroying what little happy ending it got. Though apparently it somewhat reconned the Victor Von Doom of the AoA world to be less boring and terrible than his actual AoA tie-in,
The 4 horsemen were fantastic.
Awesome Channel Mate
X-MONTH!
Now that you mention it, Deadpool 2 would have been 10X more awesome if the kid WAS kid Apocalypse instead... Would have tied with the X-Men movie where Apocalypse gets resurrected but as a child somehow.
that era (messiah complex and onwards) was the best run of X-men since the Claremont era. The x-force that kicked all this off is my fave X-men run. It was a great renaissance for X-men. Then the take over ruined it
I loved this run. :D
Glad to hear you pronounce the name as "Phantom X". I've often wondered, since he has the French accent, if it wouldn't be "Fan-to-maw".
I was just wondering aloud yesterday, "should I watch Deadly Class?" Thanks for giving me my answer.
NJPW yeah!
I think it was a 2 year run, 18 issues a year, maybe that's why there were so many artists
So Remender didn't subsequently follow up Archangel developing spongiform encephalopathy?
dood i just read Get Jiro! RIP Anthony Bourdain
The scene where Wolverine kills [REDACTED] broke me completely. I'm talking about the one in final arc.
So basically the psylocke, archangel phantomex triangle is the new Jean grey cyclops wolverine triangle...
Have you seen the YT video tribute featuring Hurricane by Thirty Seconds to Mars.
Yeah, it’s a tragedy that remender isn’t with Marvel anymore. Hopefully he comes back like Hickman.
Too many "realities" for my tastes. Too many "versions" of characters from too many "realities". Ruins all credibility and accountability. Nice art though. Like Esad Ribic.
yeah....it fits Famine attack + Deadpool power ....clever but....John Byrne wouldn't have done this. I just think the schlock in the post-boom "modern" comics is all w/e.....these things don't sell, hard. The Reservoir Dogs ear question. Wrong answer here. Same clever power play, clever off screen quips....less clown shoes to avoid.
Near? NEAR it is perfect exept for 1 thing nightcrawler he left in the last book but i’m still pissed he was my favorite
Good video, though I don't recall Psylocke facing off against a past version of herself, ad mentioned around the 12 minute mark. That shot is of her battling the Shadow King. She does have an encounter with a future version of herself but it is non-violent and happens later in the series.
Ok so i had bought a handful of his run in floppies, loved them all. Then i bought both trade paperbacks of his X-Force run, but i left them on the East Coast when i moved.
A few wks ago i bought the Rick Remender X-Force Omnibus and TOTALLY FORGOT about it.
Then this vid pops up in my feed, its like life is telling me something.
Never clicked so fast :) Loved Remender's run!
Can't wait for other related X-men stuff
@ComicTropes - dude. This is not 1957 or even 1857. You are not a swank bachelor whose lifestyle reflects the magic of alcohol and unexpressed desires. Seriously - doesn't Seattle provide weed at reasonable prices? ALCOHOL? I'm not going to type about role models or heroes because obviously you haven't a clue as to what compels real heroes. Here's a clue: art is not fueled by alcohol. A glass of wine or a shot a day, fine. I don't want to be that "sober guy" who preaches to folk born in the eighties and nineties because he had his last drink in 1982 and ate out of bins for six years and panhandled for 3 bucks a day for coffee brandy and coffee so he could endure another night in West Hollywood sleeping on rooftops and behind the bushes. Humans who choose to evolve will evolve. Dude. Go to a meeting. Even at your rather expansive size more than a shot a day simply crosses the line and becomes pure poison. We all have our preferences but fer crissakes be a frikken role model and go to a meeting. "We admitted that we were powerless over alcohol...". Aloha.
To me X-Force will always be Cable, Domino, Cannonball, Boom Boom, Siryn, Warpath, Rictor & Shatterstar :)