A new comic featuring Marvel’s favorite mutants is about to hit stores. Called “Uncanny X-Force,” the new series will focus on five current or former X-Men characters who band together to fight terrorist attacks on mutants.
Leading the way (not surprisingly) is Wolverine. He’s joined by original winged X-Man Archangel, telekinetic heroine Psylocke, cyborg secret agent Fantomex and wisecracking mercenary Deadpool.
The team is a secret one, not sanctioned by the original X-Men crew, says series writer Rick Remender.
“I wrote a line where basically Wolverine says to Fantomex, ‘We’re all killers and it can’t be changed, but we can direct it and do some good with it,’ ” Remender tells USA Today. “That was sort of a mission statement for me: to find a philosophical point I could get to where the team was relatable and human, and they were still heroes who had to do this thing.”
Remender went on to say that he’s looking to keep his five characters grounded in their human natures and emotions.
“The character writing is the same as if I were writing a play or any kind of drama or a television series where it was grounded in reality,” he says. “The fun part is then to take those characters as they are, and to put them into situations that they might not be comfortable in or accustomed to, and see how they react. Ultimately, how a human or a character reacts to their environment or the situation defines who they are.”
“I love having these crazy, high-adventure, intense action sequences where the clock is ticking and everything is on the line,” he says. “And then you cut to Deadpool and he’s sitting around pretending he’s in some Philip K. Dick crime novel or something. It’s wonderful to have a character like that.”
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