Source: pastemagazine.com

13. X-Force (The Second Team)

(aka X-Statix)

Look, I really can’t stand the original X-Force team. Like, it’s just a bunch of over-muscled dudes and over-sexualized ladies who have some combination of guns and/or knives. They are boring characters. However, when Peter Milligan and Mike Allred took over the book and changed everything, I was enthralled.

In X-Force # 116, we meet the new X-Force team, a group of fame-hungry mutants with mediocre powers and a reality show. The team included the acid sweating Anarchist, the hyper-sensitive Orphan, the teleporter U-Go Girl, and the mysterious floating blob Doop.

In addition to that, there were heaps of other characters on the team, and all of them were killed while on their first or second missions. The team was always prone to in-fighting, and issues of public relations swamped their actual superheroing.

Eventually, the team changed their name over to the X-Statix  (and got a new comic with the same title), but it will always remain a neat book, just by virtue of what it was. They took a book about explosions and murder, and turned it into one about characters.