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A bunch of new female-centric books are just now coming out. Ms. Marvel, about a Pakistani-American teen in Jersey, is wonderful. I'm also super excited about the new Elektra book that comes out this month, because the art looks stunning.
Wood's X-Men has kinda collapsed in on itself, unfortunately, but I enjoyed the first arc, and there's been some good stuff with the kids recently, including Jubilee, Hellion, Pixie, Bling. (Although even now that it's over I still don't know what that whole Bling+Mercury subplot was supposed to be.)
FF just finished recently and was incredibly adorable and warm-hearted, and the 3/4 of the main team is women.
I really enjoyed the first trade of Humphries' Uncanny X-Force, which is mostly Storm, Psylocke, and Spiral. The book gets pretty terrible after that, though.
You might also like X-23, written by Marjorie Liu. I found it a little dark for my tastes, but it has a teen female X-Man front and center, and I'm told there's some great Laura/Jubilee friendship later on in the series.
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Not that he had anything to do with it directly, but I feel like the dip in readership had less to do with Loki's fans leaving when he did than anything else.
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Oh man, you ask a question on which I have FEELINGS. :D
For starters, Humphries' "team" (I use this term loosely) consists of Storm, Psylocke, Puck, Bishop, and Spiral. Despite girl!Fantomex's appearance on the covers, she's only in a couple of issues. So there's very little overlap.
Secondly, Humphries is just a weak writer, IMO. His dialogue is stilted, even in the early issues I like; his grasp of continuity and emotional arcs is kind of nonexistent, especially in evidence in the several issue Psylocke/Fantomex detour (which I am especially bitter about because they were the reason I read the book in the first place); and his long-term arc development completely collapses in the final third of the book. There's a bunch of action that has basically no emotional stakes beyond the world possibly ending. I didn't even finish the last couple of issues, despite having a subscription. It was a disaster.
Finally, Remender's book has a much bigger scope plotwise, and I'd say it's a lot darker thematically. At least, more successfully dark. Remender's X-Force team is a black ops team; Humphries' team is, I dunno, a mutant security team?
On the plus side, Humphries' team has more women, which I like. Psylocke is the sole representative on Remender's team, which wears after a while.
In conclusion, I find Remender's X-Force a flawed but really interesting work, and Humphries' X-Force to be mostly a disaster (although the first arc is passable, helped along by art from Ron Garney and an emphasis on female relationships, which I enjoyed).
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btw, anon, I think we may know each other in namespace, because I def know an FF-squee buddy who likes X-Force. ;)
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Hah! It is quite possible. <3
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