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...reunion by the arrival of even more Marauders.
Warren begs Artie to run back to X-Factor Headquarters as he turns to make his final stand against them.
He lands a successful hit on Vertigo, but his warning to Artie is a reminder that even Warren knows he is severely...
...even half as successfully as any of us might hope.
Left alone in the tunnels Warren finally finds Artie, and for a moment, it feels like the issue might just end on a high note.
The boy jumps into his guardian Angel's arms, but all too quickly is the joy sucked from their...
...defense of Scott, and the team gathers the wounded to prepare to head back to X-Factor HQ.
Angel's fall of grace over the course of X-Factor #10 sets him up for a big redemptive moment, but if the Mutant Massacre teaches anything, it's that not every heroic moment ends...
...a sign that Weezie's storytelling, much in the vein of Claremont's, is planting seeds for plots that won't be reaped for months to come.
X-Factor faces another group of Marauders and almost falls before Jean and Warren arrive to rescue their teammates.
Jean kills Prysm in...
...before storming off and leaving Warren alone with his mistakes, as the story cuts back to the tunnels for its final pages.
Unlike modern events that remain fairly isolated from ongoing threads, XF #10 brings Apocalypse back to advance his assembly of his Four Horseman...
...in keeping her head in the sand for the sake of a taste of "normalcy" after her resurrection.
But more than any other character in XF #10, Warren is punished for his missteps as Candy arrives, catching the two mutants in warm embrace.
Candy gives Jean a piece of her mind...
...characterized by near-missed reunions that just miss farce and head directly into frustrating territory.
But all the same, those misses–between the boys and X-Factor, or X-Factor and the X-Men–add to the helplessness of the event; the feeling of watching a horror movie and...
...just in time for the entire façade to fall down around them.
Trish Tilby breaks the news of known-mutant Warren's funding of X-Factor, and with the rouse up, Candy Southern takes off for New York to handle damage control for her beau's business dealings.
...will come throughout the issue.
Unlike UXM, X-Factor divides its time between the Massacre below and the overdue social destruction of X-Factor as speared by Freedom Force.
Reader surrogate extraordinaire Skids makes clear that the concept of X-Factor is absolutely stupid...
...and destruction of the Mutant Massacre, and his work in this issue goes a long way to prove that sentiment.
If there was hope that the shock-value of UXM #211 would prepare readers for another view of the Morlocks' grim fate, it's shattered by Walt's casual but stunning...