X-Factor #240 Cover

This is the cover to “Run, Layla, Run.” In this issue, Layla has 23 minutes to get across, on foot, a gridlocked, blacked out NYC, so she can save a teenaged girl’s life. I just LOVE this cover and am sharing it with you.

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25 comments on “X-Factor #240 Cover

  1. Oh that IS an impressive cover! I’m looking forward to finding out the details behind Layla’s personal marathon.

  2. HAHA!
    i didn’t think about he minute a page but that’s pretty funny.
    the comic book version of 24.
    although i think savage dragon had an issue like that.

    1. I actually did a minute-a-page story ages ago, complete with countdown clock. But this issue isn’t broken up along those lines, sorry.

      PAD

  3. I had a question to ask you about Layla when you were in Calgary, but it slipped my mind at the time. What I wanted to know was whether or not you planned to do an issue dealing with Layla and Wanda encountering each other, given their connection?

  4. NICE!!!!

    Good call, Peter. You have great taste, which isn’t hard considering David Yardin’s skills.

    Why isn’t he drawing the interiors? I like his style.

  5. Actually shocked two persons thought this is a reference to 24… guys “Run Lola, Run”. Kiefer is not bad but Franka Potente seems to linger in my memory more vividly.

  6. Oh, so pretty! David Yardin’s covers are all wonderful. I love his willingness to try completely different techniques and designs from issue to issue. Can’t wait to read this issue (but then, I feel that way about all of them).

    While I’m here, I thought issue #238 was awesome. I really enjoy your ensemble issues, where there are scenes for everyone in the cast; they always seem to flow organically from group to group, handling the plot but with plenty of character moments too. (I absolutely don’t get the people who say this team is too big to manage gracefully; they must be reading some other X-Factor book.) I especially liked Rahne’s scenes with Rictor and Shatterstar; she’s come a long way since throwing ‘Star out of that window, and her evolving relationship with both of them is sweet. Looking forward to seeing the outcome of their (hellbound?) road trip. Also loved Layla golfing, her secretive smiling-at-Jamie, and the fact that only Guido noticed it!

  7. Is this going to be a “simple” deadline or some sort of recursive temporal causality loop? Not that it matters — I’ll get it either way.

  8. Wow! That is a great cover! Makes me want to read it even more.

    It’s rather Ditko-esqe with the layered background, multiple shadows, and the expression on Layla’s face.

    Bravo!

  9. Fun title, fun cover. Looking forward to it!

    And while we’re generally on the topic of X-Factor, I’d like to hold up #237 as an exceptionally good issue. It’s given me lots of food for thought on the topic of grace. Well done, good sir, and thank you.

  10. Nice cover! And the storyline sounds intriguing … a mutant who knows stuff … having to use those powers to get herself across NYC in the middle of chaos within a specific time limit.
    In the real world, that alone would require both foreknowledge and split-second decision making skills!

  11. I’ve just returned from a convention on the other side of the country where I had the enormous pleasure of meeting David Yardin. A very nice guy, softly spoken, happy to sign every X-Factor I thrust in front of him, and completely willing to tackle characters he’s never drawn before for a convention sketch.

    Enormously talented and incredibly friendly.

  12. late to comment on the thread, but this is a great cover. Thanks for the preview.

  13. Run Lola Run–GREAT movie.
    There actually was a 24 type comic in the late 80’s from Mad Dog Graphics called Eddy Current. Each issue was an hour of the character’s life.

  14. beautiful cover – I have to say that David Yardin’s covers are why a lot of X-Factor issues adorn my walls rather than reside in long boxes.

    Any chance of a Longshot-centric issue soon? His original mini-series was what got me into comics as a bairn (as Rahne would say)

  15. That looks great. With all this Marvel Now stuff I’m slightly worried about X-Factor’s fate…any hope that X-factor is left alone in all of this?

  16. GREETTINGS FROM CHILE Mr David!!!!!

    i really…really really love x-factor…the best comic book about a gang of superheroes that i read in a lot of years

    (in fact only the jli make me feel that a group of superheroes maybe can be real….x-factor is the second and today the only one!)

    so, this is just to say hello and that i cant wait for the next issue

    bye!!!!!

  17. PAD!
    I just finished #239 so I’m excited to see next month’s cover now. Love it. Love Layla.

    #239, by the way, was just awesome. Your transition panels between the two aspects of the story were inspired, really good show.

    And Jezebel’s ominous words to Terry and Alex on the last page?
    Stuff just got real.
    Great close.

    Thanks, and keep up the good work.

  18. I want to ask a question about this issue. If the doctor is dead the first time, how would Layla knows that she supposes to save her in order for her to invent the technology necessary to save Jamie.

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