X-Factor # 71-75, X-Force # 1-2, X-Factor # 77-78
Peter David makes me giddy.
He weaves together a great story during his X-Factor issues that take a realistic approach to the X-World. Great characters, snappy dialogue, and a great plot all make the new X-Factor a fantastic book.
Mr. Sinister is back and working behind the scenes against X-Factor. Manipulating Mutant Senator Shaffren, Sinister is looking to put the new, government-sponsered team of Mutants into big trouble by taking them out one by one.
The cast of X-Factor is suberb, ranging from across the Mutant board. Havok, Polaris, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane, Quicksilver, and Stong Guy (aka Guido) each get their moment in the sun and stand out as a team of loners among loners. Each one is interesting and complex and the way their interact is great.
Switching over to X-Force, we have a very different type of X-Team. While both X-Factor and X-Force pull from a wide spectrum of X-world, X-Force is the renegade team. Cable has brought together Cannonball and Boom-Boom from the remains of New Mutants, and teamed them up with Feral, Warpath, Dominio, and Shatterstar to serve as a Mutant strike-force.
Both X-Force and X-Factor encounter Stryfe and the Mutant Liberation. I can't help but get nostalgic about Stryfe and remember just how cool of a villian he is. This guy is bad-ass, pure and simple.
For the most part, as we enter into this new era of the X-Men, we're given a great first step. While X-Factor is better book, I found that I enjoyed X-Force quite a bit as well. Knowing what I know about what happens, it makes for some interesting reading.
Unfortunately, the art in both books isn't very good. Larry Stroman's work just doesn't suit X-Factor very well and some of the panels just look messy. Over in X-Force, Rob Liefeld's art continues to decline is quality. It's still not too bad, but I honestly can't stand the way he draws legs.
~W~
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