The Price Increase That Wasn’t, or, “How the Hell Did *I* Get Blamed for This?”

So all of a sudden I was being asked from various sources about a price increase for “X-Factor.” I knew nothing about it. Eventually I traced the source of the rumor to a thread on Comic Book Resources, the website that I’d put in my rearview over a year ago because of the frequently toxic environment. There I discovered a lengthy thread keying off some sort of early solicit material that declared the price was now $3.99.