I’d like to think it was obvious that somebody was going to come along and break Shatterstar out of The Vault, and that it was equally obvious it wouldn’t be the Avengers. Enter: X-Force, the team of mutant rebels that was teased in offhand dialogue over a year ago!
If I was going to introduce a mutant team into the Phil Wrede Marvel Action Figure Comic Universe, I wanted to be sure I was doing something interesting with them, and I think bringing in the paramilitary mutant rights group is the right way to do that. So much discussion in Avengers meetings is about trying to make incremental progress (heck, Domino declared that she joined the team just to get a chance to make her activist case to Iron Man in the very first comic), but X-Force is united behind Cable’s vision of a future where mutants no longer have to fight to get what they deserve, because he’s won all those fights already. They don’t have institutional power, so they can’t wait to act until the last possible second. They have to act, now.
And, yes, I know I lean on that, “transform and roll out,” reference more often than I should. You win some, you lose some, and sometimes, you just can’t help yourself.
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