X-Force #2 – Review

by Simon Spurrier (Writer), Rock-He Kim (Artist)

The Story: Sometime the ends justifies the means, no matter the cost to your soul. Apparently, Cable really believes in that line.

The Review: Simon Spurrier is a writer whose work I appreciate. Being a regular of 2000AD and the one who wrote X-Club, Six-Gun Gorilla and the delightful David Haller volume of X-Men Legacy, he has grown from nobody to a talented writer in my perception. With such a pedigree, it’s hard not to want to try some of his stuff and give him a chance, if only to see if he can recapture the magic of some of his previous work.

As it turn out, anyone can make mistakes, as the very first issue of this new volume of X-Force was unfortunately a rather clunky affair, filled with some questionable choices as well as a tendency to repeat some key information without actually clarifying much. It was a bit of a letdown, to say the least, yet a single issue is not always the best of indicative of what is yet to come. While other writers might have scared me off the title by delivering an issue that wasn’t exactly the best all-around, to put it gently, in Spurrier I trusted as I continued to buy the title. Was my choice a wise one or am I deluding myself?

For what it’s worth, this issue work a good deal better than the previous one, even though there are still some clunky bits here and there that doesn’t make the book reach the height it can attain.