My Gimmick or Good feature at Comics Should Be Good returns with one of the biggest selling comics of all-time, X-Force #1, which features the artistic stylings of the controversial Rob Liefeld, with script by long-time “X” writer Fabian Nicieza. This comic came in a polybag with a trading card. Here’s the catch – there were five different trading cards out there, so if you wanted to complete the set, you needed to be five copies of the comic. Was X-Force #1 a gimmick, or a good read? Click here to find out!

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