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In which Pete Wisdom does his best Charles Xavier; Alastair Stuart has not aged well; San Francisco has monster problems; and there’s probably an alternate universe where Dr. Niles Roman fronts a metal band for toddlers.
X-PLAINED:
- The value of Pete Wisdom
- X-Force #102-105
- Revolution (more) (again)
- Counter X (more) (again)
- Flight
- Elf stuff
- Alastair Stuart (again)
- The eyepatch of love
- Science City 53
- Meatspore stormtroopers
- Project Cuckoo
- Dr. Niles Roman
- Tactics vs. Strategy
- Monster problems
- The Violence Machine
- The apparent death of Pete Wisdom
- What a good X-Force HQ needs
- The most X-treme possible lineup
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As you’re talking about this, I thought this interview might be something you’d dig. It’s a deep dive with Ian Edginton about his time on X-Force and features some nuggets about why some of it happened the way it did:
https://comicsxf.com/2025/06/03/our-son-pete-39-ian-edginton/
Regarding tactics vs strategy, I always figured that strategy is about how to fight a war while tactics is about how to fight a battle.
Even everything else aside, how is creating mobs of mindlessly violent brand-new mutants supposed to be in any way representative of a war against a trained and organized mutant military? If you just wanted experience fighting mutants in general, there’s supervillains just all over the place…
They’re mutant snobs. They insist on nothing but the freshest, home-made, organic mutants. None of this mass market “already found in nature” stuff, that’s just so… plebian.