X-FACTOR #38

Review by: akamuu

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“We’re not The Avengers or The Initiative or some other group interested in bringing down villainous conspiracies.  We’re a detective agency.  We fulfill a client’s needs and we move on.”

So says Madrox, so say we all.

After a brief dip into the art hell vortex that consumed X-Factor this fall, I’m glad to see that the X-Force story is still one of, if not the, most interesting story currently going on in the X-verse.  I’m unable to read Kingbreaker this week (thanks for continuing to suck Diamond distributors, you grinchy bastards!), but it’s all good, as if I had to choose between following Vulcan or Darwin’s story, I’d choose the super-evolved nice guy over the meglomaniacal eighty-seventh Summers brother, any day.

This issue was all about the fun.   Next issue is baby time, and I’m sure, eventually, we’ll get around to finding out what happened to Layla Miller.  I trust Mr. David to get us their when that part of the story needs telling.  In my opinion, he’s the best hack in comics this millenium.  I’ll read anything he writes.

Story: 4 - Very Good
Art: 3 - Good

Comments

  1. I agree that PAD is a great writer, and normally I love me some X-factor, but this issue was very ho-hum for me.  I am on for the long haul on X-factor, and I do think the next story arc will be better.

  2. Putting your faith in a writer like that would better be reserved for a writer who deserves it. I feel that way about Grant Morrison, and I want to feel that way about Peter David, but as much as I love these characters and how this book started, this issue is making me drop it. This was worse than ho hum, this was blegh. I thought that any change from Larry Stroman would be good, but page 5 proved me wrong (it was like Darrick Robertson and Alan Davis had a much less talented child). And the story seems to be at a stand-still. Unless Layla comes back, I’m through with this.

  3. Yeah, I’d put my faith in Grant Morrison too.  His Wildcats and Authority books were great.  Oh wait…

  4. @ActualButt: Really?  You put more faith in Morrison than David?  Now, I agree that Morrison at his best is better than David at his best, but David hasn’t dropped a steamer like Seaguy or any of his Wildstorm stories.  I would never by a book by Morrison without flipping through it, whereas I would for David.  And while the art for this issue doesn’t hold up to Sook & Grawbadger, at no point did it make me want to rip out the artwork and light the book on fire, as Stroman’s did.

  5. I’d hardly call Seaguy a steamer and Morrison’s Wildstorm books never got off the ground enough to really judge ’em at all. i’d have loved to read a whole run of his Authority.

    i’m not in love with the art, but hey the story is getting good again. i’m sticking with this.

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