"X-Factor" - best X-book?
tribune
Peter David's "X-Factor", is the best X-book on the market, and it's
hitting its peak this winter with two must-read collections.
David is no stranger to the title, as he wrote the series to fan
acclaim in the early 1990s (collected in an "Essential" series of
paperbacks) and returned to relaunch it in 2005 as a distinctively
noirish take on the X-Men team book. Led by Jamie Madrox, the Multiple
Man, "X-Factor" investigates mutant mysteries and injustices with a
dry sense of humor that's missing from most of its brethren.
Since its relaunch, David has kept the team's roster filled with
strictly B and C-listers (including Longshot, my favorite X-Man),
enabling the stories to have actual consequences without fear of
upsetting the status quo of, say, the Wolverine franchise. Recently,
these consequences have come to a definite head, and there's been a
sense of ramping and wrapping up plotlines, beginning with "X-Factor:
Time and a Half"...
Continued: http://xrl.us/XFactor1
grinningdemon
I don't know that it's the best (I'm generally enjoying all the
x-books right now...except X-Men Forever) but it's definitely a great
book...to me, at least, the book seemed to be going down hill in the
last year or so (I really thought it jumped the shark with the baby
dupe storyline) but #200 seems to have put it back on track (and it
also makes me curious about seeing PAD write the FF)...I love most of
the cast but I could do without Darwin, Rictor, and Longshot
(characters I've never liked)...I like the idea of keeping one of the
de-powered characters around but I just never liked Rictor...I also
would like to see PAD play down the multiple personality factor with
the dupes for a while...he has a tendency to latch on to these mental
instability plotlines and beat us over the head with them forever.