Back in Black: X-Force #1 Review

Writer: Ed Brisson // Artist: Dylan Burnett // Marvel The illest mutants around return in the relaunched X-Force #1  to hunt for the assassin of their one-time mentor and former leader the Askani’son himself Cable.  Harkening back to the team’s roots, the roster features Domino, Warpath, Cannonball, Shatterstar, and Boom Boom…kinda. In the aftermath of the Extermination event that saw Cable murdered by his younger self for failing to protect the timeline, X-Force reunites for the sole purpose of hunting down “Kid Cable” for some proper vengeance.  Uatu help anyone who stands in their way.

After shaking down a safehouse of Romanian arms traders, X-Force learns that Kid Cable has been stockpiling a lot of weapons from the nation of Transia.  He has not quite learned how to express himself or his intentions yet, so Nathan Summers’ former mentees want answers and/or blood for the death of their leader.  Meanwhile in Transia, Kid Cable himself infiltrates a military science complex in order to retrieve his captured spy – the psychotic cyborg Deathlok.  Unbeknownst to Kid Cable and X-Force, Transia has been running a secret genocide against its mutant population while projecting a public facade as a safe haven.  As the military takes over executive power in a violent coup, X-Force plays the convenient patsy for an open war on the country’s mutants.  (Stick around after the main story ends for a fun backup story called “The Big Sleep In” explaining why Boom Boom is MIA.) Based on…