They are the X-Men's special black-ops strike team, created to go places and do things the regular squad can't or won't do. The members are the best trackers and killers the X-Men have to offer: Wolverine, X-23, Warpath and Wolfsbane. They are X-Force. Collecting: X-Force 1-6

X-Force is still reeling from the aftermath of their first mission, but there's no rest for the wicked. Mutantkind's enemies have multiplied, but Cyclops has a new target for his black-ops team - and even X-Force doesn't believe who they're going after next! Collecting: X-Force 7-11

Cyclops and Wolverine struggle to deal with the growing threats facing mutants while still keeping X-Force's existence a secret from the X-Men. Warpath is out for vengeance, Wolfsbane is missing, and X-23 keeps cutting off pieces of Vanisher. But worst of all? One mutant's deadly actions will put mutantkind squarely back in the crosshairs of humanity. Things were bad before, but they're about to get a hell of lot worse... Collecting: X-Force 12-13, 17-20

It's the exciting sequel to 2007's Messiah CompleX Cyclops has complete faith that his son, Cable, will do everything he can to protect the so-called mutant messiah - who he believes will save mutantkind. But he also knows what havoc former X-Man Lucas Bishop has wreaked in the nightmarish future. So now he's sent his black ops team, the X-Force, on a risky, time-traveling mission to save Cable and the child, completely unaware that there's something else waiting for them in the future. Something not even Bishop was counting on... Collecting: X-Men: The Times and Life of Lucas Bishop 1-3, Cable 11-15, X-Force 14-16, X-Force/Cable: Messiah War One-Shot, & X-Men: Future History: The Messiah War Sourcebook

NECROSHA! The resurrected dead lay siege to the X-Men's headquarters, and the fight to survive the Black Queen's vengeance begins. But while Warpath and Wolverine realize what's happening, they may be too late to stop it. Because Selene is already well on her way to achieving ultimate power half a world away. And as the rest of the X-Men fight mutants back from the dead, Wolfsbane struggles to survive a very different threat. PLUS! The long-awaited return of the VANISHER. Collecting: X-Force 21-25

The climax of four years of X-Men stories is the X-Event of 2010! What started in House of M with the Decimation of mutantkind and erupted with the first new mutant birth in Messiah CompleX finishes here. In the epic crossover Second Coming, Cyclops' faith pays off when Cable returns to the present with Hope, the girl he believes to be the mutant messiah. But will she be the savior or destroyer of mutantkind? We may never know, as she is the target of an initiative for mutant eradication unlike anything the X-Men have ever experienced. Many will be wounded. Several will die. Is Hope worth it? Collecting: Second Coming: Prepare; Second Coming 1-2; Uncanny X-Men 523-525; New Mutants 12-14; X-Men Legacy 235-237; X-Force 26-28

Just when you thought it was over, we pull you back in-it's the X-Force story everyone's been talking about, fi nally delivered! Wolverine and Domino have always had a special relationship, but everything goes upside down when the Assassins Guild puts out a hit on our gun-wielding bombshell. Why do they want her dead? And more importantly, how many people have to die before Wolverine and Domino can spend some quality time together? Get ready for the sexiest blood-soaked ride Craig Kyle and Chris Yost have ever delivered as they join forces with international superstar Gabriele Dell'Otto to offer up their final X-Force story! Collecting: X-Force: Sex + Violence 1-3