Nrama: And so Ben, you're doing X-Force the same time you're doing Wolverine. Those two seem on the surface to be the most brutal books of "Dawn of X." Was that the intent or is that just a happy accident to have some synergy there?
Percy: You know, my heart is a twisting ball of centipedes and worms. So I’m just the guy to take on this poisonous job. And these are dirty, gritty, noir-soaked books and you see that reflected in the art of Joshua Cassara, who is really bringing a rough line and a shadow-soaked atmosphere to the page. I'm really excited to share his work with the world.
Nrama: You had mentioned about the kind of dichotomy between the head and the fist of X-Force. Can you talk a little bit more about that?
Percy:So here you have an intelligence unit. Here you have a field unit, a wetwork unit. With the paradigm shift that's occurred with mutant sovereignty declaring X-Force is no longer a black ops team, X-Force is a branch of government. X-Force is the mutant CIA. And in the last page of X-Force #1, there is something monumental that happens.
Something that will ripple across the whole line, something that will make it very clear why X-Force is necessary.
The mutants are now the 1%. And though there are all of these seeming allies, these treaty nations who have jumped on board with them, not everyone behind the scenes is happy about what's happening. And it's a time for deniable operations.
Nrama: So is X-Force going to be operating a lot more in the public eye? Are they still going to be operating as black ops?
Percy: This is a black ops, this is a deniable operation. They're going to be working behind the scenes. And Xavier will know about what they're doing, but he'll sort of turn his back on it because there are some morally compromising decisions that are made.
Nrama: Does the rest of the Quiet Council know about them?
Percy: Yes. Just think about banana republic stuff that might happen. You think about blackmail, you think about manipulation, assassination. There's a lot of trouble ahead but, and the only thing you can really expect from X-Force is the unexpected. You have this big team roster, right? And some of these issues are going to hone in on one character. Some will be about the whole cabal. Some people are going to be allied, some people are going to be rubbing up against each other. Some people might walk away because they're so upset at what's happening.
But the ultimate thing that they need to consider, and Beast is sometimes the person making these decisions, is the greatest good for the greatest number of mutants.
So, the team will do some shady stuff after all.
I'm wondering if Jean will come to the belief that genocidal human bigots are the biggest threat to Xavier's old dream but rather than abandoning the dream entirely she just decides to go after the bigots directly but secretly in hopes of making it viable again. Maybe that's why Jean would want to be in X-Force.
Fingers crossed Colossus is the first one to quit. Or get captured and tortured or something.
I'm wondering how Jean will act here, she is good and rational but she also has a temper. She can keep everybody in check but if she is there for that that would be boring.
They have killed but they are still on the "good" side of people who kills.
Poor Colossus. He gets so much hate and he is such a good boy.
On a side note I'm almost sure someone probably someone of the good guys is going to betray krakoa
Someone post the scan of Xavier acknowledging making Colossus an XMan was a mistake and hes a failure from UXM #279. Its only been downhill from there