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To be brutally honest, it was mostly the trend of ripping off the X-Men what never took off (I know not all these examples are Image, but is still part of the point), one or two teams COULD had worked, is hilarious how barely legally disntinct Cyber Force was, but still, there was the tamplate. But many of these books came from artist who drawed for X-Men rather than WRITH for X-Men, so even if they could come with a decent design here on there, writing about it was another thing. They would had been better off focusing in one or two characters, rather than trying to make a full team compelling. Sticking by Cyberforce here, yeah sure I still could get buy you Ripclaw, Velocity and even Striker (I like Cyblade, but just for how hilariously blatant of a rip off of Psylocke she is). But the Book then has to force a "Cyclops like Leader" with Heatwave just because you "need" a straight forward leader (even if they clearly wanted Striker to fill the role) and Impact is there just cause you also "need" a Big guy. Similar issues plague all these books, like how in Youngblood, even if Badrock is another blatant rip off, at least he got enough personality to get some use out of him in other books for a little while.

Is no wonder that after a while, the series that actually stoock around where Spawn, Savage Dragon, and eventually Witchblade. They are all flaw as hell (like, really, really flaw specially early on their runs for some), but having a more concrete focus on a single character and what that character is about, made for a far more solid foundation.