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@Popdose: Uncanny X-Force #1

And here's a book that I went into with some hope but relatively little expectations:

The team of mutants that Remender has assembled for X-Force are the sexy mutants. There’s no room for any Gambit here. Wolverine and Archangel, holdovers from the previous X-Force team, are joined by Psylocke, Fantomex and Deadpool. In the first 5 pages, Remender finally makes Deadpool a character I can understand and like. Providing a Carl Spackler-like narration as he sneaks into an “Ominous Fortress of Impending Doom,” Deadpool comes off as both jokey and somewhat disturbed. Even as he watches a woman get killed in some kind of cult ritual, Deadpool briefly stops to muse on the band No Doubt as he tries to clarify a bit of narration. Later, tied to a slab with part of his head slashed open, Deadpool shows more of his musical knowledge as he recites a few lyrics by the Miami Sound Machine. Remender shows us how Deadpool is a character whose mind maybe doesn’t quite work in the same way that most of our minds do.



You can read the full review here.