With this issue comes the end of an era . . kind of. This will be the last issue of the current series, but . . don't despair. These characters will be coming back at ya' next month with a simple renumbering. Next month Marvel will reassign this book it's original numbering . . if it hadn't been cancelled and then brought back . . with issue #200. Peter David will remain as the writer. So the book will have it's same great feel. But Bing Casino will be taking over on the art chores. I have no idea who he is, so . . I don't know what to expect. But I'm sure with Peter at the helm, everything will stay on course. Anyways, this issue wraps up our future story with Cortex. Kind of. First we get a flashback as to what led Anthony Falcone to hate mutants so much. And how he was manipulated by Tryp. Back in the future . . 80 years in the future . . Cortex has just been pulled back in time, by Doom and Jamie. As soon as he arrives, Falcone gets a lock on him and realizes that all the mutants will be in the same place. 'All squadrons converge on my signal. Implement operation Clean Sweep! Repeat . .! Clean Sweep! Finally . . Finally . . it's going to be a brand new day.' Falcone's plan is actually kind of ingenious. For years he's been basically spray painting the mutants with specific Hadron particles. First in the camps, and then at the various Sentinel attacks. Now . . now that he's got them all in one place, all he needs to do is open a portal that attracts the Hadron particles and all of the mutants will be swept away into other dimensions. All he had to do was wait until most of them were converged together, and then implement the process. Easy-peasy! But whenever X-Factor is involved, specifically Jamie and Layla, things never really seem to go according to plan. What I don't get is why was Cortex working for Falcone when he knew that the ultimate plan was to rid the world of his brethren? Anyways, Jaime and Cortex fight . . which to me didn't really seem all that realistic because Cortex is so much more powerful. He took it easy on Jamie and I don't really understand why. Then we find out . . after Cortex takes out Fitzroy pretty early in the game, that Layla's power is actually to bring things back from the dead. After Ruby's pleading that's what she does with Fitzroy. I think, ultimately, she did it because he was really the only threat to Cortex. He surprises him from under the boardwalk, and like the siphon that he is sucks off all of Cortex's life force. The problem with all of this is that Layla knows that using this gift causes the recipients to be brought back without a soul. So whatever evil that Fitzroy does . . however bad he becomes . . it's all on Layla's head now. In the end . . Jaime and company win. He's transported back to Detroit, but Layla isn't. That he knows of. It turns out that she actually went further back in time and downloaded her younger self with the information of everything that's happened during her lifetime . . including her trip 80 years into the future. This gives her the illusion of the power that . . 'she knows stuff'. When we now know that her actual power is to bring things back to life. That piece of information came out of left field. I guess I wasn't paying attention to the hints that Peter was leaving us over the course of this series. All I can say is . . wow! This book continues to please and amaze me. I love what Peter's doing here. Valentine De Landro does the art for his final issue here. And I have to say . . it was probably one of his best. It was a great issue all around. I loved the story. I loved the art. I love the characters. And I thought the explanation for all of this stuff these guys have been going through was fantastic. It was a great way to wrap up the current story-line. Now, as to my concern earlier about not being familiar with Bing Casino's work. At the end of this issue we get a 7 page preview of the story coming up in issue #200. I have to say the story, and the art both show a lot of promise. I imagine it'll be a double sized issue, so . . I can't wait to jump in. It's to bad I can't get this excited about every book I read.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
X-Factor #50 - Marvel
With this issue comes the end of an era . . kind of. This will be the last issue of the current series, but . . don't despair. These characters will be coming back at ya' next month with a simple renumbering. Next month Marvel will reassign this book it's original numbering . . if it hadn't been cancelled and then brought back . . with issue #200. Peter David will remain as the writer. So the book will have it's same great feel. But Bing Casino will be taking over on the art chores. I have no idea who he is, so . . I don't know what to expect. But I'm sure with Peter at the helm, everything will stay on course. Anyways, this issue wraps up our future story with Cortex. Kind of. First we get a flashback as to what led Anthony Falcone to hate mutants so much. And how he was manipulated by Tryp. Back in the future . . 80 years in the future . . Cortex has just been pulled back in time, by Doom and Jamie. As soon as he arrives, Falcone gets a lock on him and realizes that all the mutants will be in the same place. 'All squadrons converge on my signal. Implement operation Clean Sweep! Repeat . .! Clean Sweep! Finally . . Finally . . it's going to be a brand new day.' Falcone's plan is actually kind of ingenious. For years he's been basically spray painting the mutants with specific Hadron particles. First in the camps, and then at the various Sentinel attacks. Now . . now that he's got them all in one place, all he needs to do is open a portal that attracts the Hadron particles and all of the mutants will be swept away into other dimensions. All he had to do was wait until most of them were converged together, and then implement the process. Easy-peasy! But whenever X-Factor is involved, specifically Jamie and Layla, things never really seem to go according to plan. What I don't get is why was Cortex working for Falcone when he knew that the ultimate plan was to rid the world of his brethren? Anyways, Jaime and Cortex fight . . which to me didn't really seem all that realistic because Cortex is so much more powerful. He took it easy on Jamie and I don't really understand why. Then we find out . . after Cortex takes out Fitzroy pretty early in the game, that Layla's power is actually to bring things back from the dead. After Ruby's pleading that's what she does with Fitzroy. I think, ultimately, she did it because he was really the only threat to Cortex. He surprises him from under the boardwalk, and like the siphon that he is sucks off all of Cortex's life force. The problem with all of this is that Layla knows that using this gift causes the recipients to be brought back without a soul. So whatever evil that Fitzroy does . . however bad he becomes . . it's all on Layla's head now. In the end . . Jaime and company win. He's transported back to Detroit, but Layla isn't. That he knows of. It turns out that she actually went further back in time and downloaded her younger self with the information of everything that's happened during her lifetime . . including her trip 80 years into the future. This gives her the illusion of the power that . . 'she knows stuff'. When we now know that her actual power is to bring things back to life. That piece of information came out of left field. I guess I wasn't paying attention to the hints that Peter was leaving us over the course of this series. All I can say is . . wow! This book continues to please and amaze me. I love what Peter's doing here. Valentine De Landro does the art for his final issue here. And I have to say . . it was probably one of his best. It was a great issue all around. I loved the story. I loved the art. I love the characters. And I thought the explanation for all of this stuff these guys have been going through was fantastic. It was a great way to wrap up the current story-line. Now, as to my concern earlier about not being familiar with Bing Casino's work. At the end of this issue we get a 7 page preview of the story coming up in issue #200. I have to say the story, and the art both show a lot of promise. I imagine it'll be a double sized issue, so . . I can't wait to jump in. It's to bad I can't get this excited about every book I read.
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