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Posted January 16, 2012 by Tony Tuason in MORE
 
 

The Comic Book Group 2011 Awards – Team Book of the Year

CBG’s Team Book of the Year (2011) — Uncanny X-Force

(Check the other full list of the CBG Awards Winners here)

Uncanny X-Force

“Secret X-Police”
by Rhenn Taguiam (Amun Rhanta Reon)

Wolverine: X-Force is gonna make sure NONE of the bad guys show up on our school’s doorstep. On-call Campus Police.
Deadpool: Campus Illuminati Assassin Squad has a better ring.

After the deaths of Nightcrawler and Cable’s sacrifice to get the team back to their original timeline, Cyclops ordered X-Force disbanded. Since he realized that things are—well—actually fine, he didn’t see the immediate need of a team like the X-Force. Even though they are ‘actually fine’, things are pretty messed up after the surprising events.

Logan knows that other enemies will come sooner or later, and the X-Men will still need a team that isn’t afraid to make the tough choices—to take care of matters, permanently. He was right; situations skated from ‘pretty messed up’ the moment villains showed up. Right now, everything’s really messed up. As far as Scott’s concerned, the X-Force is over and out. As for Wolverine, Fantomex, Archangel, Psylocke and Deadpool—well, they have a different opinion at that matter.

Enter the new X-Force. Originally a strike force to do the X-Men’s dirty work—stuff they usually can’t do plus or minus murder, the current X-Force is Black Ops: from the identities down to the suits, it’s pure in camera. Their existence, as they have agreed upon each other, is to be kept secret. They aren’t teenagers with attitude nor do they have the Planeteers’ Rings. They don’t have a Watchtower or magical Lantern Rings but they are pretty darn good with what they do.

Not all teams are as perfect as the Powerpuff Girls, though. While the X-Men aims for the equality of mutants and the Avengers wants the peace the world deserves, our X-Force wants all problems out—they either deal with this the painful way, or the excruciatingly painful way. Either way, it hurts. That’s the little tinge that makes them extra special: they don’t hesitate to make the hard decisions. They either find a way to make things work—and fast, or they deal with it the best way possible. It might probably be a very painful way, so long as it’s the only way; they’d take it.

Uncanny X-Force Fantomex and Archangel

I mean–sure, with a gang such as the X-Force, things may seem to go a little too far-fetched. Wolverine’s too straight and usually tends to go on his game by himself; Fantomex seems to keep secrets of his own, Angel’s personal demons are starting to take over, Psylocke is letting her emotions get the best of her and Deadpool is—well, loud. Really loud.

I guess Deadpool’s just one of the few minds who held the team together. With Deadpool’s queer sense of humor aided with Fantomex’s charm towards the womenfolk, they proved that even in the midst of all the hardships they’ve experienced throughout their career as a team—they still need to get going. They’ll never know if they’ll never try. They ain’t stopping now. Not now, not ever.

They might not have the most powerful mutants and superhumans around, but they still carry a lot of weight on their shoulders. Each member of the X-Force swore not to tell anyone about this—especially this current roster. Wolverine—one of the big time mutants also working for other teams, had to work with the Avengers along with the X-Force without getting caught by the prior. They might be defending the whole mutant populace from threats—and from potential threats, on the rise; they not have realized yet, though, but they already have saved the world a few couple of times.

All things happen for a reason, and I believe this team believes that when you want change—you’ve got to make that change. It’s not always easy, and sometimes, we always have to suffer before the results started coming. Sometimes, there’s got to be problems before we realize the good things we’ve got and that we need to value them. The X-Force treats each passing day as the last—each mission as a step closer to saving the world. That if they don’t stop threats now, if they’d give any opportunity to their enemies, the world’s going to get closer to peril than it’s already had.


Tony Tuason

 
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