Conor ⊗🔺さんのイラストまとめ

For Scott–still at best tepid in returning to the team–a perfect moment creating the permission structure he needs to leave his family behind is created.

A cave-in spells doom for the team, but thanks to his powers, and his powers alone, they are saved.

It's the sign Scott...

...involves rescuing Rusty from his court martial, and while secret identities in superhero comics required some suspension of disbelief to work, I really can't understate how transparently stupid an idea this is.

It works, of course, with later reveals concerning Hodge, but...

...isn't the cause of X-Factor's formation, but just the decision point.

As resistant as Warren and Scott seem to be to taking up the role of superhero once again, their easy bend reveals that this rejection of the job is superficial and feigned.

For all of them, it means an...

...the good 'ol boys.

I struggle to believe the men of the Original Five would all so willingly hide the truth of Scott's marriage from Jean.

Even Warren, whose motives are evidently driven by his own desire to have Jean for himself, feels above such cruelty.

Jean's return...

...of Scott's interiority in this moment and I'd encourage you to listen to it in his own @XPlaintheXmen pod or on Scott's episode of @CerebroCast.

A big point of frustration for me in reading this book was in recognizing that a return to the good 'ol days means the return of...

...by his own willingness to explode his own relationship for the sake of Jean's return.

Scott answers Warren's call and is almost immediately broken by the news. He calls his wife's bluff–if you walk out that door, don't bother coming back.

@NotLasers offers a great reading...

...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...