Thursday, December 15, 2011

Uncanny X-Force: The Dark Angel Saga Book 2 Premiere HC [2011]


UNCANNY X-FORCE: THE DARK ANGEL SAGA BOOK 2 PREMIERE HARDCOVER
X-Force travels to the Age of Apocalypse to recover the Life Seed which could save Warren from his killer personality Archangel. However upon returning back to their own universe, X-Force faces Dark Beast, Archangel, and the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse. 



Archangel unleashes Genocide who was named Holocaust in the Age of Apocalypse timeline. Genocide nearly kills Wolverine as Deadpool, Fantomex, Deathlok attempt to save him and escape on the E.V.A. Psylocke stays behinds to save Warren while Archangel steals the Life Seed. 

Archangel plans to reset evolution and undue the damage the events of House of M brought by leveling the human population of a small town. The Dark Beast uses the Life Seed and the World to create another mutant race as time is manipulated from within as 130 million years pass within 24 hours in the ecosystem called Tabula Rasa. 

The story ends abruptly without any resolution of what has happened. This is definitely his weakest writing. Rick Rememder assumes when the Life Seed is plunged into Archangel’s chest then Warren died and someone else regenerated. The person is not Archangel but someone else.

SERIES HIGHLIGHTS
- Archangel and Dark Beast acquire a Death Seed from a Celestial from San Francisco
- After Deathlok killed the Horseman Death, Archangel chooses his successor: Psylocke
- Deadpool, Fantomex, and Deathlok infiltrate Akkaba as Wolverine finally wakes up
- The Death Seed transforms Psylocke into the new Horseman of Death
- Fantomex brings the Amazing X-Men from the Age of Apocalypse to fight Archangel
- Fantomex allowed Psylocke to lower her defenses with the help of Amazing X-Men Jean Grey
- Archangel takes on the Amazing X-Men before heading back to face Psylocke and Fantomex
- The Horseman Pestilence carries Archangel’s heir
- Fantomex orders Ultimaton to release a child Apocalypse to fight Archangel
- Psylocke plunges the Life Seed into Archangel and the villains defeated
- Warren shows up as Angel without his Archangel entity and no memory

This hardcover collects
Uncanny X-Force #14 -18

RECOMMENDED – 4 OUT OF 5