Conor ⊗🔺さんのイラストまとめ

...know that he'd be around for the long haul (foresight always being the great enemy of the re-read), I'd have expected a heel turn toward "evil mutantdom" by issue's end as the boy finally encounters Frenzy.

With a ker-whap, Frenzy backhands Rusty across the block as we cut...

...and found it unnecessary to spell out Rusty's self-hatred in the plainest of terms.

Brooding around the Lower East Side (as one is wont to do on the Lower East Side) lands Rusty at the wrong end of a knife fight and his mugger at the wrong end of a fire fight.

If I didn't...

...something that at least Jean is slowly beginning to wake up to the reality of.

The wake-up is, however, pretty damn slow; an entire sidequest involving a kid hoping to leverage how much mutants are hated in order to be left alone is required for Jean to slowly come to her...

...existence has started to subside, I'm finding myself not completely at odds with the book nor its contents–and frankly, it's more enjoyable for it.

The conceit behind X-Factor's existence (the team, not the book) is still absolutely ridiculous, but as I alluded earlier, is...

...clearly the boy's driving characteristic.

That self-hatred makes him an excellent foil to Jean–whose singleminded belief in Xavier's dream and ethos puts the two mutants at odds.

Without her telepathy, Jean is a far less understanding character; rather than being driven...

Today's issue opens with a fight against earlier antagonist Tower in medias res at infamous hell on earth Laguardia Airport. The brawl ends quickly enough as Tower makes his escape from the team, but not before Hank is given a few panels of vengeance against the man who turned...

...of the mutant metaphor that informs Maddicks' own flawed perspective of mutant identity.

And yet, despite his abusive behaviors, Artie's traumatization as a result of watching his father's death is tragic, if only through the understanding of the impact...

...and Scott, once again acting more ragefully than we've seen him before, demands answers.

Compared to the treatment of Ororo's de-mutation at the governments' hands, Hank's is treated much more cavalierly, and even celebrated, clarifying that it is Layton's misunderstanding...

...eventually reuniting in the lab's sub-basement despite splitting into two separate teams to find Hank.

Their presence has caught the attention of the lab's leaders, who announce their intentions to murder whatever "muties" they encounter in their sweep of the facility.

...are women, and women without question of their power.

Back in the lab, Hank's condition has worsened (or he's doing Doom Patrol cosplay) as Maddicks' justifies his actions to his concerned son–they are out of love.

What Maddicks misses is that his refusal to accept Artie...