Along with six other popular Marvel artists, Liefeld left Marvel Comics in 1992 to form Image Comics.
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Liefeld illustrated the series up to #9 and stopped plotting it after #11, as he had become increasingly frustrated with not owning characters he created and that his art was being used on a variety of merchandise while he allegedly received little royalties. Toy Biz responded to X-Force's popularity by introducing an X-Force action figure line alongside its X-Men action figure line. The series rivaled The Amazing Spider-Man and Uncanny X-Men in popularity, particularly with the adolescent demographic. Propelled by Liefeld's art, X-Force became one of Marvel's bestselling comic books immediately after its debut. Early issues also featured the wise-cracking mercenary Deadpool, the immortal Externals, and a new version of the Brotherhood of Mutants. The main opponents of X-Force during its first year were the terrorist Mutant Liberation Front, led by Stryfe, a masked mutant with a mysterious link to Cable. The original line-up of the team included Boom-Boom, Cable (son of Cyclops and Madelyne Pryor), Cannonball (believed to be an External), Domino, Feral (sister of Thornn of X-Factor), Shatterstar and Warpath (brother of Thunderbird of the X-Men) Siryn (daughter of Banshee of the X-Men) was added to the team in the third issue.
With the aid of a multiple-variant poly-bagged card, the book sold a record 5 million copies, and remains the second-highest selling American comic book of all time, surpassed only by Jim Lee's X-Men book that same summer with 8 million copies. Rob Liefeld obtained the name for the series from an unknown artist at a convention a few months prior to its release. Liefeld and Nicieza launched X-Force in August 1991. With help from writer Fabian Nicieza, who provided the dialogue for Liefeld's plots, Liefeld transformed the New Mutants into X-Force in New Mutants #100, the book's final issue. The popularity of Liefeld's art led to him taking over the plotting duties on the book. X-Force was created by illustrator Rob Liefeld after he started penciling The New Mutants comic book in 1989 with #86. Publication history X-Force Volume 1: 1991–2001 Liefeld period
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