{"id":12095,"date":"2026-06-19T22:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=12095"},"modified":"2026-06-19T22:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:29:15","slug":"inglorious-x-force-6-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=12095","title":{"rendered":"Inglorious X-Force #6 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>INGLORIOUS X-FORCE #6
\n“Less Than Zero”
\nWriter: Tim Seeley
\nArtist: Michael Sta. Maria
\nColour artist: Romulo Dajardo Jr
\nLetterer: Joe Caramagna
\nEditor: Mark Basso<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER:<\/strong> X-Force, with Kali in the background.<\/p>\n

X-FORCE:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cable.\u00a0<\/strong>The previous issue ended with Cable turning out to be possessed by some green monster thing, wiping Domino’s memories and abandoning her. We’ll come back to Domino below, but so far as this issue is concerned, Cable seems to have no memory of any of this. We see him briefly turn into the same monster form for a single panel while he’s remotely directing X-Force’s fight against the Mutant Liberation Front in this issue, but he doesn’t seem to remember anything about it afterwards. Presumably, all this is ultimately going to explain the memory gaps that prevented him from remembering who killed Kamala in the future timeline in issue #1. Most likely, it’s going to be him, and the idea is that he wrote down the names of the X-Force members because they’d be able to stop him, not because they were suspects at all.<\/p>\n

Oblivious to all this (or possibly being directed by the creature on some level), Cable turns his attention to the new Mutant Liberation Front from issue #1. His rationale is that his “one of us” message must have meant that some other mutant was responsible, and the MLF are a candidate because Kali is radicalising its members against other mutants who aren’t on board with their politics, such as Stryfe.<\/p>\n

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Cable still has underground mercenary contacts from his days in the Six Pack with Domino, and uses them to try and sucker in the MLF by posing as a weapons supplier.<\/p>\n

Ms Marvel.\u00a0<\/strong>She’s been spotted with X-Force on security camera footage. The kids at her school who she hears talking about this are surprisingly pleased to hear about it – but this may be a reflection of the school’s surprisingly enthusiastic attitude to Kali, of which more below. Kamala is not happy to see her schoolmates getting into Kali’s message, and seeks Kali as obviously shallow.<\/p>\n

Boom-Boom.\u00a0<\/strong>She’s back to sleeping with Akihiro after flirting with Warren last issue, though she tells him that she feels conflicted about him. She doesn’t mention Warren at all, and seems to regard Kamala as an innocent naive. As in previous issues, she remains unflappably confident that Cable knows what he’s doing.<\/p>\n

Hellverine.\u00a0<\/strong>He’s uncomfortable with Tabitha’s behaviour towards him, and seems rather more concerned than her about Archangel’s reaction. He and Warren are polite enough to one another, if a little tense.\u00a0Hellverine reminds us that “Back in the old days, I used my body, my sexuality, as a way to hurt people.” That happened quite a bit in his Dark Wolverine<\/em> and Daken: Dark Wolverine <\/em>solo series.<\/p>\n

Akihiro is convincing at posing as a weapons salesman; Cable and Archangel both note, with varying degrees of bitchiness, that he has experience as a real criminal to draw on.<\/p>\n

Archangel.\u00a0<\/strong>He’s not\u00a0thrilled\u00a0<\/em>about the situation with Akihiro but is willing to work with the guy. The plan with the MLF is supposed to be to lure them in so that Cable can teleport them away for interrogation; when Cable dithers in acting on this (because he’s being possessed), it’s Warren who pushes him to act, citing a fear of hurting these underage amateurs.<\/p>\n

SUPPORTING CAST:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nakia Bahadir.\u00a0<\/strong>The girl Kamala is talking to in the opening scene is an established supporting character from her solo book, serving her usual role of sounding board.<\/p>\n

Domino.\u00a0<\/strong>Cable did indeed wipe her memory\u00a0entirely<\/em> at the end of last issue. This issue’s B-plot consists of a disoriented Domino stumbling into the nearest town – Old Haven, NY – clutching the photo of the original X-Force which has appeared throughout this series, and which Cable dropped at the end of the issue. Domino doesn’t recognise anyone in the photo but assumes it must be significant. Her powers lead her to stumble into a nice cafe owner called Maddy, who helps her out and sends her on her way.<\/p>\n

VILLAINS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kali.\u00a0<\/strong>Although she’s on the cover, the leader of the MLF doesn’t appear in this issue at all – not even as a voice in the MLF field team’s ear, or a screen presence in her video streams. You have to wonder whether she’s a real person at all, rather than a deepfake front for whoever’s running this new MLF.<\/p>\n

Cable does gesture at the possibility of it being Stryfe – he\u00a0explains that the original Mutant Liberation Front was also made up of true believers in radical mutant politics, who were being manipulated by Stryfe to serve his nihilist agenda. (This follows logically from the eventual retcon of Stryfe’s motives into something that had nothing much to do with mutant liberation.) He assumes that something similar is going on with Kali.<\/p>\n

Kali is apparently a vastly successful streamer on her Kali Sez platform, and nobody is able to trace her either online or financially. Despite this, her platform seems to be widely accessible. Very curiously, despite her message supposedly being one of radical mutant terrorism, she seems to be extremely popular with the\u00a0human<\/em> students at Kamala’s school, who seem to see her more as a general voice-of-a-generation character. This is such an odd reaction to a specifically mutant activist that you have to wonder if there’s some sort of hypnotism angle here.<\/p>\n

Instead, the MLF field team here are the same ones we saw in the first issue – the graphic with the description of their powers is recycled from issue #1. They’re wearing the same clothes as before, though Resonant and Speedburn’s outfits come across more obviously as costumes here.<\/p>\n