Stephen Segovia delivers some beautiful art throughout this issue and the action is breathtaking. I love the way the characters look and how they take over the panel. A great looking issue. Read Full Review

Ben Percy continues to make X-FORCE the most pertinent and aggressive X-title on the market. Each issue connects to the overall story well, holds weight within the narrative, and displays purpose, importance, and drive within the story. When you read X-FORCE, you feel like youre not only getting your moneys worth but also leave the issue feeling like the story has substance and value. Percy creates another fascinatingly well-written tale thats easy to read and hard to forget. This series and issue are a must buy to any X-fan and should be on your pull list. Understandably, financial cuts may need to be made with the borage of titles on the market. However, X-FORCE is the one that NEEDS to stay on your list until further notice. Read Full Review

Benjamin Percys choice to filter the story through Beasts POV and showing behind the hood of his orchestration of the mutant CIA gives X-Force #6 incredible narrative focus to go with Stephen Segovia and Guru e-FXs precise, powerful visuals. Its a memorable addition to the Dawn of X books ongoing saga of a presumably utopian society uses decidedly non-utopian methods to maintain it with X-Force definitely getting to explore the non-utopian part in a creative way with a fantastic ensemble cast. Read Full Review

Overall, this was another engaging issue of X-Force which gave us the right kind of exposure to the function of this team. Now we understand their structure better, and where intelligence plays the biggest role in being different from every other version of this team we have gotten up to this point. Not to mention, this may be the best writing we have gotten out of Beast in a good long while. Read Full Review

There are a lot of plot elements going in this book right now. We stilldon't know much about the masked puppet masters from the first fiveissues, and this new threat revealed in "Intelligence" may or may notend up tying into that. But this book seems like the kind that will bebetter with at least a couple (if not more) threats for the team to dealwith. As the Dawn of X books move into their next stages and with newbooks are about to arrive soon, X-Force is well positioned alongwith Marauders to be one of the leaders of the line. Read Full Review

Get inside Beast's head in this interesting look at how the X-Force makes sometimes immoral decisions for the greater good. Who watches the watchmen, indeed. Read Full Review

X-Force continues to deliver excellent action and plenty of witty barbs, but it's greatest strength is its critique of how organizations like the CIA overestimate their own abilities and doom innocents. Read Full Review

X-Force #6 feels like a nice one and done issue that will have greater consequences in the future. Percy focuses on Beast in this one, showing how he runs black ops. His mindset is very scientific and methodical, which fits him perfectly. The art by Stephen Segovia is good. It serves the script very well. All in all, this is an entertaining issue with an ending that shows that maybe Beast doesn't go far enough in his methods. Read Full Review

X-Force #6 pulls you deeper into the morally grey world of Krakoa's black bag operations team in a story that uses Beast as the focus to ultimately ask questions about the morality of what X-Force is doing... It really asks: is "a little evil" in the name of the "greater good" really how things need to be done? You decide. Read Full Review

Having established the operation's existence with its opening story - a factor which becomes recontextualized here by a killer data page - Benjamin Percy refines the series' focus with each passing issue. Read Full Review

The politics around the direction Charles Xavier and others are taking the nation of Krakoa continues to get complicated. X-Force #6 adds to those complications as we see what happens when a developing nation is able to use crude versions of Krakoa's technology and medicine. Where Benjamin Percy and other writers take this latest development will be highly intriguing to watch develop over time. Read Full Review

Overall this is an adequate instalment to the ‘X-Force’ series. It’s one of the weaker issues but still gives us a fun mission to see the team go out on. There is heavy commentary by Beast which lends to an insight of how he runs the team. Not explosive, but still an enjoyable read. Read Full Review

Another incredible issue of X-Force; Dawn of X’s 2nd best comic. Cassara draws the telefloronics so terrifyingly, it’s spectacular to look at. I liked the spotlight on Hank, but the only reason this issue is a 9.5 instead of a 10 is because of the last couple pages. Hank commits torture, memory-changing, and murder throughout the issue, even though he lectured Scott about doing that kinda stuff in the previous incarnation of X-Force

While I do miss Joshua Cassara doing the art, Segovia does a pretty solid job here. That said, though, Percy's writing is where this issue shines. I really like the dark turn Beast is starting to take here and I'm really interested to see how that develops in this run. I think this issue did a great job of introducing that and building it up throughout. I'm almost surprised at how much I'm enjoying this series so far.

Beast takes center stage in this dark tale. Ben Percy delivers a well paced story centered around Beasts almost Darwinistic views of the world and a look into the way he operates. Fantastic art compliments this wonderfully mature rendition of the X Force. What Hank does to the traitor son was both shocking and one of my favorite things to come out of comics all week.

THE GOOD:

-X-Force continues to show current superhero comics how it's done.

-Beast's narration.... stunning.

-I really liked the whole story with Terra Verde. Very well-done.

-Excellent pacing. Things move quickly without feeling rushed.

-I liked the tie back to HoX/PoX with the reference to an organic Nimrod.

-The twist with Cocom's son was great.

-Ah man, the juxtaposition of the narration and the end was so good.

THE BAD:

-My only complaint is the art. Segovia's art didn't really work with the writing.

Another stellar issue this time told from Hank MCoy perspective! I don’t know if he’s 5 steps ahead this time!

Prelude:
It's time for another issue of X-Force. Let's see what Percy has in store this time.

The Good:
Really interesting confession here.

I love how X-Force operates.

Wow, this is dark.

Cassara's art is great.

The Bad:
I will admit Beast is a bit off especially considering his own dealings with X-Force in the past.

Conclusion:
Another great issue though Beast's characterisation doesn't quite add up.

I’m sensing a hint of hubris here.

I'm not sure where Hank gets this high opinion of himself. Didn't he kidnap the younger versions of the X-Men just to scold Cyclops for much of the same reasons he's using to justify his own murder spree here?

This was really good, and what a great way to end an arc with a twist. Cannot wait to read more of this.

" I like to think of X-Force as a dark orchestra. Some of us prefer the spotlight of the melody... Like a shrill, brillant violine... Or a fun, émotive sax. While others harmonize in the background. Some serve a necessary function by mindlessy beating drums and crashing crymbals... Pleasuring in their violent rhythm. And there are those who are as versatile as a cello... Able to play melody or harmony, to swing between the brightest and the darkness notes. And i... I am thier conductor. Some of my... Musicians would refuse to admit this, but it is fact. I am the mind. I am the conscience. I unify them and shape their missions and interpret their needs and control their pacing.
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- BEAST

Beast orchestrates a brutal solution to a South American nation's "telefloronic" technology because it threatens Krakoan dominance. Beast knows he's deep in the shadows, morally speaking; what he misses is that his solution is incomplete -- X-Force has at best loaded up Chekhov's Gun here. It's an intriguing concept, but storytelling quality takes a step down in both words and art. I kinda hate how Beast sounds at the beginning -- with the number of psychics on Krakoa, you'd think somebody would smack him for even thinking of anything as pompous as that conductor metaphor.

"Because I'm never wrong"

Just like the cover suggests, Beast is the main star of this issue.

He guides us through the inner workings of the X-Force and his own, more shadowy activities, showing in the process, that he started to live by the principle "the end justifies the means". By doing so, he might have created a very dangerous enemy.
Also, did Xavier ordered his own assassination?

Another great issue. Artist change is barely noticeable because Segovia is doing a great job.

X force is top notch. The art was just as good as the story. Must read if you read X Men

It's a great outing for Percy making his Black Ops unit confront an enemy that will come back to bite them in the ass. Once again thanks Hank!! The art by Segovia was good and it's obvious he tried to match Cassara but I have to say I have come to think of X-force in Cassara's style so no disrespect to Segovia who's good but Cassara brings a whole other level.

Mmmm this was a very strange characterization of Beast. Not quite sure how I feel about it.

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BG1904 - Jan 29, 2020

Beast has been this way for a while. Especially when he was part of the Illuminate.

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Well...I suppose there had to be a speed bump at some point down the line. Not a terrible issue but not up to par for this series. Beast is seeming pretty cocky and reckless here.