Violence, Morality and "Uncanny X-Force"

[CBR News]

ROBOT 6's Carla Hoffman contemplates violence in comics, nothing comics "can use an act of violence as a backdrop to a much larger theme of justice, morality and heroism."


Full article here.

[Charles RB]

Good points all - that's why I keep picking up the title, Remender is happily showing us the actual effects of all that 'proactive' death on the team and, in this story and Dark Angel, indicating the team's very mission is the wrong one.

(Except in that bloody Otherworld story where proactive murder is definately the right thing and the people taking the moral stance against child murder are hypocritical, unpleasant bastards)

[Lord Bravery]

Yea, Uncanny X-Force is one of the best titles on the shelves because it actually deals with the consequences of murder and death, the burdens and guilt the characters feel because of those actions. Unlike other books of that ilk, including the last version of X-Force by Kyle and Yost which i call "gleeful slaughter squad".

[worstblogever]

Yea, Uncanny X-Force is one of the best titles on the shelves because it actually deals with the consequences of murder and death, the burdens and guilt the characters feel because of those actions. Unlike other books of that ilk, including the last version of X-Force by Kyle and Yost which i call "gleeful slaughter squad".

I'd disagree about Kyle and Yost's X-Force. Their X-Force showed the negative effects of the black ops work on everyone but Wolverine. X-23 was lost in her programming, and couldn't find a way to the "real" life Wolverine wanted for her. He didn't want Warpath on the team because he knew he was just angry and out to avenge Caliban's death. Wolfsbane just wanted to assist the team, and ended up traumatized after killing her own father while brainwashed. Elixir was in WAY over his head and knew it. Archangel was already well on his way to becoming what he'd be in the "Dark Angel Saga", but was trying to avoid becoming a monster.

The first issue of that series made that point, as Wolverine tried talking each member of the four-member (at the time) squad out of being on it, and told them specifically that it's a road you can't come back from. It was only slightly touched on in between missions, with certain characters after that.

[RolandJP]

Yea, Uncanny X-Force is one of the best titles on the shelves because it actually deals with the consequences of murder and death, the burdens and guilt the characters feel because of those actions. Unlike other books of that ilk, including the last version of X-Force by Kyle and Yost which i call "gleeful slaughter squad".

They did bathe in blood a lot. Uncanny X-force is violent fetishism. I could easily imagine Wolverine Strawberry short-caking a downed foe.

[The Black Guardian]

I'd disagree about Kyle and Yost's X-Force. Their X-Force showed the negative effects of the black ops work on everyone but Wolverine. X-23 was lost in her programming, and couldn't find a way to the "real" life Wolverine wanted for her. He didn't want Warpath on the team because he knew he was just angry and out to avenge Caliban's death. Wolfsbane just wanted to assist the team, and ended up traumatized after killing her own father while brainwashed. Elixir was in WAY over his head and knew it. Archangel was already well on his way to becoming what he'd be in the "Dark Angel Saga", but was trying to avoid becoming a monster.

The first issue of that series made that point, as Wolverine tried talking each member of the four-member (at the time) squad out of being on it, and told them specifically that it's a road you can't come back from. It was only slightly touched on in between missions, with certain characters after that.

Indeed. Frankly, I think Remender's has been a bit more "gleeful" about the killing.