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It is called Final Execution.
This is not just the next arc of Uncanny X-Force, it's the next MEGA arc." -Senior Editor Nick Lowe
"It's ridiculous. We were going to just call the arc 'It's Ridiculous.'" -Rick Remender
"This is the next giant saga of Uncanny X-Force. What the Dark Angel Saga was to the first year-plus of X-Force, this is to the upcoming year. We've been working on it for months." -Nick Lowe
"We changed one big element of the Dark Angel Saga, and this story grows out of that. So it's actually kind of a double mega arc, because this is an extension of the Dark Angel Saga in some ways. It's nine issues and a continuation of what we've been doing in some ways." -Rick Remender
"The beauty of sequential storytelling in comics is you never really have to finish your stories, you can keep coming back to them." -Rick Remender
This story will deal with a brand new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, who grow out of the Dark Angel Saga.
This is the toughest Brotherhood of Evil Mutants ever. When you see who's in it, you'll see just what the stakes are for X-Force." -Rick Remender
"Part of this book has always been that if you have a team like X-Force, you will always see the consequences for every bit of blood on them." -Rick Remender
This is going to be the ugliest, most down and dirty thing I've ever written." -Rick Remender
"The script I got this week involved Deadpool on a shopping spree. I've never read anything like that and I've certainly never drawn anything like that." -Mike McKone
"I love sending Deadpool on these recon missions and every single time he opens a door and there's Galactus or something." -Rick Remender
"I tried to envision something I thought Mike could really excel at here. Issue #25 introduces a new take on a classic X-Men villain and I can't wait to see Mike draw them. They're the Omega Clan, three new characters built from the remains of Omega Red." -Rick Remender
The Omega Clan consists of Omega White, Omega Red and Omega Black. All of them have reasons to want to kill X-Force.
Nick and I have tried to find very smart reasons to double and triple the nightmare we toss on these characters." -Rick Remender
"When I start a book, I'm not thinking about issues #25-34, but when we were leading up to Dark Angel Saga, Final Execution started to form as well." -Rick Remender
"So much of Uncanny X-Force is about responsibility for your actions." -Nick Lowe
"Any place that manufactures humans into weapons is going to piss off a couple members of X-Force. I always want a personal reason for why these characters take on these missions." -Rick Remender on White Skies
"In the 90's we got into 'Everything is so hardcore! Let's all get into the jacuzzi of blood and murder people with razorblades! Extreme!' I'm a child of the 70's and 80's. For me, Wolverine's inner conflict is whether or not to pop the claws and it's not something he casually walks into. He fights the animal, but sees the need to let him out once in awhile. I'm a Claremont X-Men guy. The characters speak to me from that era. I write them with those voices dipped in the Grant Morrison era." -Rick Remender
"I wanted to make sure these characters killing had enough gravity and weight that there would be consequences. They have reasons, but they're conflicted and complicated. Uncanny X-Force is in some ways a reaction to comics where murder was no longer a big issue." -Rick Remender
"Psylocke's trajectory is the big one to watch here." -Nick Lowe
"The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants has a huge plan that stems from the earlier issues of Uncanny X-Force. Archangel's fall was really the smaller consequence from killing the child Apocalypse. This is the big consequence." -Rick Remender
"Final Execution is Wolverine's spotlight arc. He goes through a crazy thing here. I think the fear with him is that he's in so many books that his growth can become stagnant. He ends this story in a very different place." -Rick Remender
"By the end of this arc, Wolverine and Betsy will never be the same...until some other writer comes in." -Rick Remender
"Some members of the Brotherhood you have seen in X-Force. The others are all big characters, and they belong here naturally. We spent a lot of time figuring out what each character is doing on the team. You're going to see a lot of X-Men villains who have cooled off for awhile, and many re-imagined." -Rick Remender
"The Omega Clan has similar powers to Omega Red. Their powers are uniquely suited to X-Force. I don't want to give away the whys. I don't want to give away where their brains come from, because it's a big fun reveal in issue #25." -Rick Remender
There are big plans for Genesis. You don't put a piece like that on the board without having an idea where it's going." -Rick Remender