Uncanny X-Force to relaunch with Psylocke as part of Marvel NOW! with Sam Humphries, Ron Garney

Marvel has released the creative team announcement for the January 2013 relaunch of “Uncanny X-Force,” and it’s a good one. Writer Sam Humphries (“Higher Earth”) joins artist Ron Garney (“Captain America”) in a new ongoing series.

Here’s how Marvel describes the series:

After the shocking end to the previous group known as X-Force, the mutant known as Psylocke recruits her own clandestine group of operatives—Storm, Puck and Spiral—for missions so important—and so bloody—no one can know the truth. But when the time traveler known as Bishop returns to the present, he puts this new X-Force in his sights and won’t rest till he finds them. But just why does this former ally of the X-Men now hunt his former teammates? The answer will leave you speechless.

“Thanks to a strong tradition of formidable creators, Uncanny X-Force is a book with a unique identity — dark, dirty, morally sticky, edgy, bloody, sexy,” said Sam Humphries in an interview with Marvel.com. “I wouldn’t have it any other way. I feel right at home.”