X-FACTOR #28

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X-Factor #28 is an issue where everyone seems at their breaking point. In comics you rarely see how the big events affect people, House of M, the Superhuman Registration Act, the Civil War and the continued extinction of the mutant race have been going on for awhile but the main X-Men titles have really stuck to the big action adventure superhero stuff.

“Our race is almost extinct, but enough of that here comes Apocalypse and lookit he made Gambit all evil!”

“There’s only 198 of us left but hey Rogue why don’t you take an team staffed almost entirely by former villains and go fight bad guys we’ll let Beast sort everything out in a poorly convinced backup story.”

Meanwhile X-Factor has been very quietly and very wonderfully been dealing with the fallout of those big events. What does the sudden de-powering of most of the world’s mutant population mean for a detective agency located in a mutant ghetto in New York? What does it mean for those people who live in that ghetto? What Peter David does as good as anyone else in the business is write great characters and the magic of what he does is that he follows through on how things affect them and thankfully since he’s playing mostly with tier B and C characters here he’s given that freedom.

It makes sense that given what’s happened to him recently Jamie Madrox would act how he’s acting. The same goes for everyone. Characters in a story should not always act the same, they should be allowed to progress and change as they travel through the story. Most of the time that’s impossible in comics, where writers are lucky to get six months with a character and lucky if during that six months they get to invent a new catchphrase. David has had a lot more time, and he’s going somewhere. It’s a remarkable thing, to watch and really see how these events that most characters brush off affect these ones.

A well written book, and despite how good it was during Messiah Complex, I’m glad to have it back to the core group.

Story: 4 - Very Good
Art: 3 - Good

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