Garry Brown does a great job with the art. There are some great character moments depicted and the art captures the tone of the story well. Read Full Review

X-Force continues to face the morally grey as Kid Omega has to do some growing up. The creative team shows that the team might be in over their head while creating some unsettling conflicts. Read Full Review

Overall this book was a creepy thrilling ride that I can’t wait to find out what happens. The mutants are definitely going to need to make some changes after this security breach. Read Full Review

Overall, this weeks X-FORCE isnt as strong as its been in the past. Maybe its because Kid Omega isnt as strong of a main character to take center stage? Maybe it was the lack of clarity on the first read? Maybe the focus away from the X-FORCE team itself is what hindered the issue? Either way you slice the pie, the book just didnt feel the same this week. Yet, the payoff is on the horizon and Percy took us where we need to be to wrap this arc up. Read Full Review

X-Force #18is a fine book, but it's nothing game changing for the series. Benjamin Percy has been pretty solid as a writer on this title, so there is no reason to think his good work won't continue. The pencils and colors rock the issue. In a slow comics week, X-Force #18 is one of the better titles that came out. Read Full Review

What makesX-Force#18 interesting is that it's essentially a psychological horror book. Read Full Review

X-Force #18 is an odd installment because it only leaves readers with more reasons to be excited about the series' future, without providing a particularly engaging issue based on its own merits. Read Full Review

Just not a solid issue. There is to be a lot missing and nothing exciting. Read Full Review

I'm catching up with the series and it's still the best Mutant one. Man this story arc is creepy!

Great story

Quire slowly works out what we already know: That somebody (it's XENO) is throwing a monster clone of him against Krakoa. Though the plot's dragging its feet, I don't begrudge the time spent exploring Quire's character. The stage is set for a killer psycho-drama climax. On the art front, my reaction was "man, Mr. Cassara's having an off day," which is, backhandedly, a fair degree of praise for Garry Brown.

And hey, let's celebrate the fact that this issue goes further than any other toward confirming that Jean, Scott, and Logan are a thruple now.

I'm enjoying this storyline with the patchwork Kid Omega terrorizing X-Force, but I don't want it to get dragged out for too much longer. It should be wrapped up in #19. Brown's artwork is definitely a downgrade from Cassara which also knocked this issue down a peg. All in all, not bad but definitely could've used some fine tuning.

X-Force
Volume: 6, Issue: 18
“Shadows of the Mind”

Writer: Benjamin Percy @benjamin.percy
Artist: Garry Brown @garrybrownart
Colors: Guru-eFX
Letters: Joe Caramagna @joecaramagna
Cover: Joshua Cassara @joshuadcassara & Dean White @deanwhitecolor

As a result of his many deaths and resurrections, someone has replicated Quentin Quire into a dark and twisted entity and set him loose upon X-Force to unleash the secrets of Krakoa. When the entity came for Beast, Hank was able to resist its influences but suffered a debilitating stroke as a result. Not wanting to risk the vulnerables that come with slowly being healed, Sage kills Beast so that he may be resurrected whole. Meanwhile, Quentin Quire struggles with facing the darker aspects of himself and enters the Astral Plane to face the entity head on.

I was curious as to which version of Beast we will meet after resurrection; humanoid, classic blue, grey or cat-like? But I see in advanced solicitations he’s coming back as he was, big and blue. Garry Brown did a great job making the Quentin monster look scary as hell. Also, the classic Cyclops/Jean/Wolverine love triangle continues. Wolverine and Jean share a kiss followed by Cyclops asking Jean if she’s coming to bed. I say put him back with Emma!

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (4/5)
Reviewed by: @meanadam of The Comic Book Club of Instagram
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I didn't like art very much, the story wasn't bad enough to get me.

It was a good read but the lack of Cassara's art and the main focus on Kid Omega didn't help. The art is a conduit for the story and without proper indicators to navigate the story, you are left to guess as you read which can be frustrating especially when facial expressions are just weird and don't give you clues. Garry Brown's sequential art/faces need to be improved but he is still talented and you can see his craft in the making. Ben Percy doesn't get a pass here because relying Kid Omega to carry this a whole arc is challenging and you need to add more for me to care. Good luck! I'll be here when Joshua Cassara returns.

I would have to, unfortunately, call this the worst issue of the run thus far. However, it's not really a bad book or anything. What really hurts this for me is Brown's art. It's not the worst art I've ever seen, but it's also far from great. A good chunk of the characters in this book just look odd because of it. As for Percy's story, though, it wasn't the strongest. I think there was some promise within it, perhaps in certain elements, but it just didn't come together as well as I think it could have.

I have warmed up to the kid omega exposition, but they really need Cassara back on this book pronto!

Rough art

" Yes. But you're my #@$%."
- CUCKOOS

Not the best issue, but not that bad.

I swear this story is like tailor-made for me and yet...

Annoyingly decompressed. Entire story needed like 4 pages.

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Sup3rsa1yan1990 - Mar 20, 2021

This was garbage

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Too much focus on Quire.

Only that last pes are really important. Art was awful, they need to find a better fill-in artist

WTF this issue was awful.....