Comics Fondle

Ho hum. That’s new. A ho hum X-Factor arc. It might be simple… a lead-in to the “Messiah Complex” crossover, but it also might be a signal Peter David’s going to leave the book. He literally ties everything up with a neat little bow at the end of the story–not this story, but the entire […]

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There’s something very pleasing about sitting down to read some issues of Peter David’s X-Factor, after a six or seven issue wait, and have it be just as good as always. I don’t know if David picked his cast or whatnot, but he does a great job with all of them, creating that super-cast from […]

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I can appreciate how it’s got to be nice to be Peter David these days–he’s got an exclusive at one company and he’s wrestled free a series from the other and made a go of it after they couldn’t. I just don’t need to read a smug, self-satisfied, self-indulgent mess masquerading as a comic book.
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I had heard bad things about these issues, specifically their focus on Bete Noire’s new magistrate, Jude, instead of on the Fallen Angel. Maybe there is a little bit too much (how many qualifiers in that description) emphasis on Jude. There’s definitely way too much emphasis on Sachs and Violens, David’s creator-owned guest stars who […]

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