To put things in perspective here . . this is going to be a 5 issue mini-series by Louise Simonson and Dan Panosian. It picks up immediately after X-Factor #64. The team consists of the original X-Men. They're living in Apocalypse's old home, a sentient Celestial space-ship, that landed in Manhattan. Christopher is still a toddler, but Madelyn has already been killed. Scott wants Jean to marry him, but she has reservations for a number of reasons. The rest of it I think we'll pick up as we go along. This issue mostly just gets us back into the swing of things. All the boys are chasing their loves. Hank is chasing after Trish. Bobby is in love with Opal. And even Warren seems to be settling down as he's attracted to Charlotte. But things are already starting to brew beneath the surface that are going to cause problems for our team. The ship has some programs running that it can't access. Everyone is assuming that they're the monitoring programs of the Celestial's that have been running for millennia. But no one knows for sure. Including, Apocalypse. But he seems the most curious of all. So he plans on breaking into the ship to find out exactly what it is that they're monitoring. To do so, he needs to distract the team. So he's going to revive Master Mold and Cameron Hodge. Meanwhile, Caliban has been hunting the Marauders for what they did to the people he lived with in the sewers. And this issue he catches and kills the last of them . . Sabretooth. Also, it appears that the Celestials are on a course for Earth. I don't know what it has to do with the ship, but . . I'm sure it does. Overall . . I thought it was a pretty good opening chapter. It seems to set the stage for a whole bunch of stuff that should put this team to the test. In the back of the book we get some crib notes on Apocalypse . . basically from when he was a caveman, right up to this story. We learn about his connection to the Celestials in this chapter. And there's a bunch of notes on X-Factor. Basically whizzing us through the first 64 issues. I think this will be an interesting story. Plus, X-Factor is one of my favorite X-teams.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
X-Factor Forever #1 - Marvel
To put things in perspective here . . this is going to be a 5 issue mini-series by Louise Simonson and Dan Panosian. It picks up immediately after X-Factor #64. The team consists of the original X-Men. They're living in Apocalypse's old home, a sentient Celestial space-ship, that landed in Manhattan. Christopher is still a toddler, but Madelyn has already been killed. Scott wants Jean to marry him, but she has reservations for a number of reasons. The rest of it I think we'll pick up as we go along. This issue mostly just gets us back into the swing of things. All the boys are chasing their loves. Hank is chasing after Trish. Bobby is in love with Opal. And even Warren seems to be settling down as he's attracted to Charlotte. But things are already starting to brew beneath the surface that are going to cause problems for our team. The ship has some programs running that it can't access. Everyone is assuming that they're the monitoring programs of the Celestial's that have been running for millennia. But no one knows for sure. Including, Apocalypse. But he seems the most curious of all. So he plans on breaking into the ship to find out exactly what it is that they're monitoring. To do so, he needs to distract the team. So he's going to revive Master Mold and Cameron Hodge. Meanwhile, Caliban has been hunting the Marauders for what they did to the people he lived with in the sewers. And this issue he catches and kills the last of them . . Sabretooth. Also, it appears that the Celestials are on a course for Earth. I don't know what it has to do with the ship, but . . I'm sure it does. Overall . . I thought it was a pretty good opening chapter. It seems to set the stage for a whole bunch of stuff that should put this team to the test. In the back of the book we get some crib notes on Apocalypse . . basically from when he was a caveman, right up to this story. We learn about his connection to the Celestials in this chapter. And there's a bunch of notes on X-Factor. Basically whizzing us through the first 64 issues. I think this will be an interesting story. Plus, X-Factor is one of my favorite X-teams.
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