I'm a huge Mike Allred fan. Mike lives here in Oregon (which isn't really a factor but is really cool) and has penned some of the most interesting independent comics to hit the market in many years. Feeders, Red Rocket 7 and Mad Man are all fantastic as is The Atomics.

These days Allred is doing X-Force for Marvel. In fact, that's just about all he's doing (the only other major project is Spaceman for his own company AAA Pop Comics). I think his work in X-Force is fantastic. It just gets better and better with each issue. His most recent art work really reminds me of Jack Kirby's best.

So, anyone else an Allred fan??

I read the first X-Force tpb when it first came out and thought it was amazing stuff. Much better than the Angst-Force it used to be. I can't wait for a second tpb.

Me too. I stopped buying most Marvel books a few years ago, but I really liked the TPB of this book. I will happily pick up the next one.

If you two liked those trade collections you really should look into Red Rocket 7. Mike Allred did the art and wrote the amazingly trippy story. Well worth a read and better than 90% of the junk coming out of Marvel and DC these days (though I guess that's not really saying much).