X-Factor #23 - Marvel

This is an interesting book. It's just quirky enough to keep my attention. At the end of last issue, it looked as if Layla may be dead. But we knew she was too important of a character for that to happen. She's actually saved by Quicksilver. Which is really amazing, because he considers them enemies. But he saves her so that he can kill her himself. He feels like he's been asked by God to do that. All is not straight in that Quicksilver noggin'. And Theresa and Monet are off trying to enforce a visitation order. It's sounds silly when I say it like that, but there's a lot more involved to the whole thing. Anyways, we find out this issue, that this Mr. Huber has been behind all of this stuff. He has mind controlling powers, so in order to get X-Factor to work for him, he needed to get the mutants with mind based powers out of his range. That included Siryn, Monet and Layla. Which he successfully did. But, he had to have known that they would start returning sooner or later. It ends up being sooner. And Layla is the first to make contact. Which sends our Mr. Huber in to a panic and he starts attacking the team. "Ah, well . . . nothing to be done about it now. Of course, the problem is that I can't kill them. Fortunately they don't know that." So instead he opens up a teleporting door, and sends Rahne, Jamie and Guido out into what looks like the wild frozen wilderness . . . Antarctica, maybe? Peter David is weaving a pretty good story here. But then again he always was good at the team books. Also Pablo Raimondi has been on board as the penciller for a few issues now. Hopefully they've finally resigned themselves to a single artist. I like this book because it's not like the rest of the X-men books. It's different, and it's quirky.