X-Force is a
fictional Marvel Comics superhero team, one of several
spin-offs of the popular
X-Men franchise. Conceived by writer/illustrator
Rob Liefeld, the team was formed in
New Mutants, vol. 1 #100 (April
1991) and soon afterwards was featured in its own series.
The group was a new incarnation of the 1980s team, the
New Mutants. Led by the
mutant Cable, X-Force was more
militant and aggressive than the X-Men.
X-Force was successful in the early 1990s. The series' popularity waned after Liefeld left, causing Marvel to implement several reforms in the title from
1995 until
2001 with varying degrees of success.
Low sales on the series prompted Marvel to revamp the title in 2001 with a new cast in the form of a group of self-interested young mutants who were gathered together by a corporation to become media stars and used the name X-Force.
X-Force, vol. 1 was canceled with #129 and relaunched as
X-Statix, which featured the later incarnation of the team. After
X-Statix was canceled with #26, Marvel reunited the original X-Force team for a six-issue 2004
miniseries plotted and drawn by Liefeld.
In
2007–
2008, during the
Messiah Complex crossover, a new version of X-Force was formed that had
Wolverine leading a more militaristic black ops branch of the X-Men, forming the basis for a new X-Force series starting February 2008 by writers
Craig Kyle and
Christopher Yost, plus
Clayton Crain as the artist. The series came to a conclusion in September
2010 as part of the
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