As much as I rag on Peter David for his work on Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, I have to give him credit for what he's doing with this book. Maybe he just does better with team books. But, I guess FNS could almost be considered a team book, with as many supporting characters as they have running around through the SM titles. Anyways, I really like the feel of this book. And there are some very interesting characters, especially Layla. We seem to have settled on a regular artist now too. Roy Allen Martinez, does all the flashback, or flash forward, sequences. And in my opinion, he is the better of the 2 artist. Renato Arlem, does all the rest of the art. I do have to give him credit also, as he seems to be improving with every issue. The theme of this particular issue seems to be aquainting us with how Singularity Ivestigations have been involved with the members of X-Factor, in the past present and future. It also explains Mr. Tryp Jr. and Sr.. I thought it was the same guy, going back and forth through time, but there's actually 2 of them. But, the scooting around throught time thing does seem to be one of their abilities. It also seems that Layla, and Mr. Tryp Sr., seem to be polar opposites. In fact Mr. Tryp Sr. pays her a visit at the end of this issue, and kind of upsets her world a little bit. The interaction between these 2 should prove interesting in the future. Also, one of Jamie's dupes kills Mr. Tryp Jr., and in doing so, his memories come flooding back into Jamie. It's then that he realizes that it was the Tryp's that killed his parents. He had been made to forget their meeting when he was a child. He also didn't know, what his dupe had figured out, that it was the Tryp's that had killed his parents, not some freak tornado. Jamie seems to be physically distraught with this new found information. On top of all this, we still have the whole thing going on with Guido and Quicksilver. Very interesting book.
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