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...feel called to answer.
The problem, of course, is that the call comes with casualty, chiefly the nail in the coffin of Scott and Madelyne's failing marriage.
Warren understands that there is consequence in placing a call to Scott–and is only dissuaded from making the call...
...is (sort of) understandable (he did literally just burn a woman alive), the whispers and horrified commentary from the issue's nameless bystanders–"Mutie, freak, scum"–help to sell the call to duty that our featured mutants...
...and most recently as the sole survivors of the calamitously ended Defenders book.
The one angle X-Factor approaches its introductory issue from is the ongoing and ever-escalating wave of anti-mutant prejudice sweeping the United States.
Even if everyone's hatred of Rusty...
...are better revisited than remembered.
For the other three members of the original five who initially resisted the call to heroism at the end of Giant-Sized X-Men #1, the theme works as they've been dragged back into the fold time and time again under different umbrellas...
...turn of Madelyne's, but rather they are both ruined by it.
If this introductory issue had a theme, it is, perhaps appropriately, on the consequences of refusing to grow up.
Its launch is characterized by nostalgia winning over reason–an insistence that the good 'ol days...
...I can't help but to hate the irreparable character damage it does to my second favorite character in X-History, Scott Summers, nor his ill-fated bride Madelyne.
X-Factor #1 opens boldly with character assassination, for all of her vaunted resentment, it hard seems natural...
Good morning and welcome back, folks! After yesterday's rise from the ashes, it's time for our baptism by fire: we're reading X-Factor #1.
I want to be plain (and up front) in admitting my frustration with this Third Genesis; while I love what the book does in the longterm...
...making her depiction as "hysterical woman" all the more maddening as Byrne closes out his issue.
Jean's return does more harm than good, leaving her less herself than she was even in the face of the Dark Phoenix's corruption.
She might be back, but in a way, she'll always...
...Nightcrawler limited series, where the Kurt we encountered felt miles away from the Kurt we were reading at the same time in Uncanny X-Men.
At least Cockrum inarguably cared for Kurt, but in the case of Jean's, her return as its written–driven by profit over passion...
...time with any consistency, we'll be reading books outside of the purview of Claremont's stewardship–and the resentment baked into X-Factor means little effort is made to recapture the voices established for these characters.
It was something faced recently with Cockrum's...