It's about time that we got some word from Layla. She's been trapped in the future, and we have no idea of what's going on or if she's ever going to be able to get back to her X-Factor friends. For that matter, will she be able to find them if she ever makes it back? Peter David wrote this one, and since he's the regular X-Factor scribe . . he's the only one that would know. Valentine DeLandro did the art for this issue, and I have to say it was nice . . if not a little bit creepy. The art was fine, it was the colors. This is supposed to be such a bleak future with repression and imprisonment going on in all levels of society. Right now it's aimed at mutants, but pretty soon it's going to spread all across the spectrum. The differences between mutants and humans are becoming more and more indistinguishable every day. Anyways, the colors were all bright and vibrant. It was a lot of autumn colors, but . . it was still bright. It just seemed kind of eerie, for the bleakness of the future to be colored so resonantly. Like I said, it was a bit creepy. Anyways we find out that Layla is up to her same ol' stuff in the future. After she escapes from the internment camp, she makes her way to Atlantic City where Scott Summers, and his daughter Ruby, have been waiting for her arrival . . for decades. Eventually Layla will make it back, because Scott told her that she will. She's just not sure how to do it right now. This is a very interesting character, and I'm glad that we got the chance to catch up with her again. Obviously she'll be back from the future soon, but it was good to see that she wasn't to much worse for the wear. She adds an interesting dynamic to the group.
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