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X-Factor v4(?) #2 Feb. 2006

Okay, confession time. I don't follow X-books very closely. Didn't pay attention to House of M, at all. I only really bother when it's a writer I'm interested in. Whedon on Astonishing. Grant Morrison on X-Men. Peter Milligan on X-Force (and no, I haven't read much of his current run on Uncanny, either). And I love me some Peter David. X-Factor 87 (the one where the team visits a psychologist) ranks as one of my favorite single issues of all time. The recent Madrox mini was manna from comic heaven. And suddenly there was buzz that it was actually popular enough to launch a new X-Factor series, just in time for Decimation.

Oh, Joy. Big crossover time. That worked really well for David back in his old run. And, what's this you say, Brubaker is writing Deadly Genesis? The big crossover book? Aw, hell.

But it's Peter David writing. And Ryan Sook doing the art chores.

Ryan Sook impressed the hell (pun intended) out of me in... wait for it... Hellboy. He's managed to come a long way from that, even. He's joined by Dennis Callero this issue, who, at first glance, is not as good. I hope Sook will be back to solo soon...

Ian Quinn

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