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Wow. Lalya Miller totally creeped me out. She could teach Sage a thing or two.
I loved it. Indeed the last page was ……briljant! I for one hope the relationship with Jamie en Theresa will be more developed. This issue had me wanting for more (and that is basicly what a good comic has to do but not every comic gives me this feeling). How will M fit in (if she will ever fit in). How will Rictor be dealing with his power loss. The next buddy moment of Jamie and Guido. Can’t this comic go weekly?????
Thanks for the fun read PAD!
I read today that Ryan Sook is leaving X-FACTOR as of #4. What’s going on?
I’m curious as to where you read that.
PAD
I don’t know if this is the originating source or not, but here’s one website reporting Sook’s departure:
http://joelhunt.blogspot.com/2006/01/ryan-sook-off-x-factor.html
I believe at least one other site picked up the story from here and ran with it. I’m not making any comment on the veracity of the report Peter; it’s just that you were asking where it came from.
Yep, it’s me I’m back again….
PAD, I have to congratulate you on a great start to a good book. I know my opinion means s*&t to you but your book is fantastic. This is the type of writing that I remember from the good ole’ Hulk days. Humor, action, character interaction and just plain entertaining.
For what it is worth, I apologize to you for my previous remarks on your board and at comicboards.com. Thanks for bringing your creativity to a good book.
A fan – Ole’ Greenskin
Yep, it’s me I’m back again….
PAD, I have to congratulate you on a great start to a good book. I know my opinion means s*&t to you but your book is fantastic. This is the type of writing that I remember from the good ole’ Hulk days. Humor, action, character interaction and just plain entertaining.
For what it is worth, I apologize to you for my previous remarks on your board and at comicboards.com. Thanks for bringing your creativity to a good book.
A fan – Ole’ Greenskin
Yep, it’s me I’m back again….
PAD, I have to congratulate you on a great start to a good book. I know my opinion means s*&t to you but your book is fantastic. This is the type of writing that I remember from the good ole’ Hulk days. Humor, action, character interaction and just plain entertaining.
For what it is worth, I apologize to you for my previous remarks on your board and at comicboards.com. Thanks for bringing your creativity to a good book.
A fan – Ole’ Greenskin
Rick Jones = Madrox?
A story idea for the next round of Marvel’s “What If..?” fifth week event?
Brilliant work! There’s a definite ANGEL influence in the book, but the humor and characters are pure PAD. Loving the Sook pencils too, although I see that’s not gonna last. Oh well.
I’m also getting the Angel vibe, but I’m wondering to what point that’s unintentional.
When I read Layla’s ‘explanation’ to the “bad guy”, I did subconciously “heard” her voice reading things with Eve’s voice (Angel season 5).
..I have a simple mind, I guess.
Pickd up issues 2 and 3 and was blown away.PAD is one of the few writers who can make me laugh out loud on a regular basis without forcing the issue or the laughs being unintentional.(Gail Simone,Kyle Baker ,and Giffen also being in the group)M is a bit full of self love now isnt she?
Oh for the record Layla Miller CREEPY AS HÊLL !!!
Though for some reason I see her like Chloe on 24
who is also a sometimes creepy,sometimes funny person “who knows stuff”
Mr. David, I’m a huge fan. I have high hopes for this book – you’ve taken five of my favorite characters (Siryn, Guido, Rahne, Madrox, and Rictor – yes, shoulderpad excess and all) and put them together in a book.
That being said, to be honest, I felt a couple of parts of #3 were flat dialog wise, especially compared to #1.
I found Calero’s art to be muddy and almost incomprehensible in #2 and #3 – especially the way he’s drawn Siryn. In issue #2, one panel has her with the Tyra Banks Forehead of Alien Doom, the next page she’s looking like Morticia Adams, and on the next she looks completely different, with a broad Irish face. I felt it was sloppy and detracted from the book. (Calero’s coloring snafu was particularly irritating, since it was only the second issue.)
So far I feel Siryn (can you tell I’m a Siryn fangirl?) and Rictor to be not vivdly fleshed out yet. Siryn in particular has so many appealing qualities (warmth, intelligence, leadership skills, modesty, great tactical skills – hey, when you lead X-Force during their ášš kicking days, you can’t be a slacker) and such a vivid personality that I hope she’s not reduced to just a lieutenant of Jamie’s with stereotypical Irish temper, with no nods to her previous continuity and personality. All of the other characters pop off the page! I wish more than two pages had been focused on the riot scene.
But I’m hooked.
first time i visit your page… just wanted to tell you, how much i enjoyed issues 2&3, which i got yesterday. your sense for dialogue is great and the introduction of the main theme/conflicts/plot(s) for the series works out great. keep it going!
regards,
cristian
PAD,
I’ve never been good at reviews, but here goes: I had completely written off Marvel after HoM because almost all my favorites were now powerless. Still, I picked up X-factor because you write it and you were the writer who made me love Madrox.
Regarding issues 1 to 3? Wow. I’m speechless. I have no idea of Layla’s history pryor to this, but she’s incredibly creepy, and I can’t wait to know what role she will end up playing, if she is really feeling bad about lying to X-factor. And Rictor? I almost cried with his monologue in issue 1 about his powers (That I always thought were sort of a bad joke, given his nationality)
Can’t wait for issue 4, and I hope the new artist can fill Sook’s shoes, because his art is mindblowing
It was pretty good. I’m not really a “noir” guy, so it was kind of on the bubble. However, the thing with Layla Miller has me a bit interested. If she is somehow responsible for making sure that the events of “M-Day” stick, then I really don’t care for her (a fave of mine was depowered). Yet, I’m also interested in how it will play out. Actually, I’m more interested in the “What’s the real secret of M-Day and Layla Miller” plot than I am the “There’s only 198 of us, how do we cope” plot now.
Good work.
Wow, Shaun Cassidy. I totally bought the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew season 1 DVD, I can only vaguely remember re-runs from my childhood. Dadgumn things were different back then.
As far as people investigating why all the mutants are depowered, those who do know aren’t telling. In the last issue of House of M and in the Claremont’s one shot epilogue, they delineate (to an extent) who remembers and who doesn’t. They explain what happened to Captain America and Iron Man (I’m unclear if they told Sentry or not), and then they pretty much decide not to tell anyone else. They don’t want the world to know what a Mutant did to the world, fearing the ability to do something like that again.
Josh Wilhoyte
If this was the Olympics, I would have to give this issue a “10.” It did everything that a good comic book issue should do (at least in my opinion). It advanced the story, explored the characters, and gave you a strong reason to come back for more.
RE: Banshee, it seems a little soon to nail PAD for not acknowledging his death. First, as I recall, things are happening in Deadly Genesis that are keeping the characters a little busy to just pick up the phone and call Siryn. Second, in the world of constant delays in publishing, it is prudent to wait a month or two to make sure the “death” actually came out before another book acknowledges it. While I am all for tight continuity, common sense should understand that a delay of 5 or 6 issues is not really relevant unless the content of those issues flatly contradicts the events that have occurred. (This is not just a defense of PAD; this, to me, is just allowing a little room for things to develop in a complex world of publishing.)
Iowa Jim
Love, love the issue, Peter… can I call you Peter?. I inmensely enjoyed the first issue, not so much the second, so I was kind of on the bubble, but you can count me in from now on. I didn’t care about Layla before, not that I hated the character (a character needs a personality for me to hate them, you see) but after this issue I am really interested to see where is everything going. Too bad about Sook leaving, I found him to be very talented, but as soon as you’re writing AND you get a REGULAR artist it’s not that big of a deal.
Just one stupid question I hope someone can answer me. You see, I’m form Spain (living in England) and obviously english is not my mother tongue and I dind’t quite get the “Faith and Begorrah” reference. Could someone give a hand here? Much appreciated.
Faith and Begorrah is an exclemation made by those of the Scottish persuasion, where as you or I might say “ÐÃMN” or “GOSH DARN IT”. It might also more accurately be uttered during a moment of elation. Lo explico bien? Good, X-factor 3 kicked ášš, I am now a Calero fan too, when i could even tell the difference, ha ha. Not a fan of the coloring but nothing is perfect! Thanks to Iowa Jim for the inspiration for my name.
So, if we buy the Variant Cover edition of #2, does that translate to more ducats in your bucket? If it does, I’ll get one. #3? As with all your work, it left saying “Aaaaannnd?” at the end. Can’t you do 2 a month?
Well, it’s something to read anyway.
Actually I have not been a big fan of Xavier’s band of heroes for quite some time…I’m still mad at them for the awful Onslaught storyline, and let’s face it,
Spider-Man 1 and 2 were better then X-Men 1 and 2.
“Faith and begorrah” is a stereotypically IRISH expression, not a Scottish one. Thus the lucky charms reference. (Siryn is the Irish one, after all, where Rahne is the Scottish lass.)
I stand corrected.
With every new issue, I am anxiously awaiting the conclusion to this arc more and more. This has in only 3 issues become my favorite book. Great job. Even with expecting the unexpected, I never could have thought that little Layla Miller could be so creepy on that final page. Keep up the great work.