Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender is Near-Perfect
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- Опубликовано: 12 янв 2019
- 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 RUclipsrs, 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.
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.
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.😭
I'm rewatching this episode just because I love this run of X-Force so much
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!
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?
Great essay! X-Force is still my favourite mainstream Remender book. His collaborations with Opena never disappoint.
Remender is one of my favorite writers. He's Venom run is my favorite run of all time! 🖤
facts! he made venom cool again
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...
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.
"Deadly Class" is something every fan of comics should be reading.
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.
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
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
I really miss Rick Remender on Marvel but they really screwed him over his own independent books are great tho
I would literally kill for a Deadpool solo run written by Remender.
Can we all talk about how the whole of Opena's work looks AMAZING the way it does mostly because of White's coloring?!
As time goes on it seems like it is the best run ever , art story character writer just damn perfect ...nuff said
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 read this years ago. Glad to see people still talk about it.
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
Great run! The Mark Brooks speed paint RUclips 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!
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!
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!
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.
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
Another great video, You always pick interesting topics not covered in other RUclips comic fan channels.
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
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
These comic tropes have become part of my Sunday morning routine along with a hearty breakfast sets me up for the day. Thanks Chris!
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
Did the intro have Freddie Mercury as Padme on your wall in the background?
Weird cross-over...
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 was one of the first comics to actually get me into collecting oddly,always good to come back to-great video!
hey man, found you through your neil gaiman video almost a year back and just want you to know that you are doing a great job i really appreciate the work you do and how genuine you are about it
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*
Uncanny X Force and Old Man Logan got me reading comics again after a long hiatus. UXF is insanely good and extremely shocking
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
Just finished this run a few days ago and it was amazing! I had high expectations going into it and was still blown away!
I love this direction your channel is going over the last few months.
Great episode. I absolutely love that run and I am so excited for all of X-Month.
You are the best Comic book channel in the English language! Thx for all these amazing videos!!
Never clicked so fast :) Loved Remender's run!
Can't wait for other related X-men 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.
I need to Remember to Read the Remainder of wRiter Rick Remender's Run on iRon Man.
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’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?
Thanks for the recommendation! Just picked up the first trade for Low last week and started Uncanny X-Force today. Loving your videos, Chris. Keep it up!
Thanks for reminding about that amazing run. At the time it was being released it became my first read or “top of the pile’ comic. I even enjoyed Deadpool in this one which is a character I’ve never taken to. I was sad when his run ended and was excited about his Uncanny Avengers run but that failed to match the compelling storytelling of UXF in my eyes. He is definitely a writer to follow though. Recently found your channel so will check out some more stuff on here.
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.
Chris bruh your intro song is a vibe. I caught myself dancing a little 😂
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.
Great video, this was most definitely a fun run . I enjoy every that I’ve read of Remender’s thus far!
This is still one of my favorite series, it is so good, great art, an amazing balance of preserving the characters, yet growing them in new interesting and realistic ways, I love what they did with deadpool, showing both sides of the clown, and archangels twists of darkness, and how the team reacts to what they deem necessary to protect mutants, and the lines only certain ones will cross, showing heroism in multiple unexpected ways, so good, only wish it was longer, but it makes it that much more unique, also fantomex is a boss!!!!
Solid as always! I've been wanting to read this series for awhile now. I've been tracking down all the single issues.
OK, you sold me. I'm going to check this series out. I had stopped collecting when this came out so I didn't even know it existed. Thanks.
It is well past 3:00 in the morning for me, but you uploaded so it’s time to watch.
I really want to read this collection. Great job!
Oh man I loved this run so much!
Totally agree with you, this was an amazing run and one of my favorite of all time.
Thank you so much for mentioning "Low." That series is not getting enough attention. It's still ongoing and the quality has not slipped one bit. Remender's deep core of benevolence really shines in that series.
Its awesome to see you cover such a brief but awesome series Chris
Can't think of anything better to start X-MONTH! *lightning cracks
Love this video Mr. Chris! Keep it up ❤️
Thank you for the trip down memory lane. Would love to hear your breakdown on X-treme X-Men, District X and the seminal X-Men:Legacy (Carey/Spurrier) series
This is one of the greatest X-Men stories ever.
Its a very good run
Great stuff, Love the whole run but my favorite is the final execution saga, so good
This one's def goin on the list of comics to buy. Sounds like a lot of fun and an interesting story. Also X month? That's awesome! An entire month dedicated to one of the greatest and most prolific teams in super hero history? Could only be done proper by Comic Tropes. Thanks for another great video Chris!
I really love this run of X Force. What are your thoughts on an Alex Ross or Bone episode?
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.
Another solid one bro! Love Remender!! Met him at a con a few years back. Super chill dude too! Met Nick Dragotta of East of West too! 🙌🏾
Another outstanding episode and excellent review
Always great content
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".
This is my favorite Marvel run! Great job on highlighting how creative Remender was with it. I do want to add, though, that there are three tie-in issues with the Fear Itself event. However, these are not written by Remender (and it shows). So yea the run is basically uninterrupted, but not entirely, I guess.
I gotta say mainstream Remender was a gift, while he understandably now does creator owned books exclusively, anytime a writer of his caliber is handed the characters we love, it’s a treat. Even his more comic-booky super hero moments are creative in fun ways, for example how Nightcrawler handles Blob near the end (I hope that’s relatively spoiler free)
Sweet "snowbirds dont fly" poster. Iconic GL//GA run.
I also happen to be a heroin addict. In sobriety, so that story strikes close to home for me
Such a cool gachapon prize this episode! Chris is so fortunate to experience seeing NJPW live, & in Tokyo no less! I wonder if it was a big show at the dome?
This book really fell to pieces without him.
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
I read it and I'm ready for the breakdown!
Excellent episode. Thank you sir.
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.
just bought this on your recommendation, cheers!
This is a truly an excellent comic series. I have read the Rick Remender X-force run several times over and loved it.
You should do a video on the Allen Moore book providence that's based in the H.P. lovecraft fictional town its a super trippy book and you can use the Lovecraft tropes
Thanks. Honestly, this is like the thing, that covers comics. You need more people watching it.
X-Month? Sweeeet! One of my favorite X-stories was the New Mutants Special Edition #1 & the X-Men Annual #9! Fantastic story and art, I read them, over and over..
I notice there is always an issue of 'Oriental Heroes' on the stand in the background. Do you know if there is any compiled books of those old Jademan Press comic books?
Flex Plays There are not. But there’s also not a huge demand for the books so they shouldn’t be going for too much.
Just today i was remembering this great run
I LOVE Titan A.E. I always wished it had it's own comic. Such a great & interesting universe as well as great characters that deserve back stories.
I've always wanted to read this, sadly I can't find it anywhere local
i bought the first uncanny xforce book on a local bookstore just for the fun of it and now, 1 month later, I'm obsessed with x force, it is one of my favourite x men comics and I'm now reading the third book, the fourth is waiting in my shelf to be read 😁
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???
I really wanna read this run, can't wait for the omnibus reprint ;)
I love this series so much I just wanted to hear someone talk about it
The Evan/Apocalypse character sounds awesome. Definitely going to pick this up!
I was just wondering aloud yesterday, "should I watch Deadly Class?" Thanks for giving me my answer.
NJPW yeah!