X-Force continued with Nicieza taking over creative control of the series. Along with six other popular Marvel artists, Liefeld left Marvel Comics in 1992 to form Image Comics. 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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