The penultimate issue of the current Mutant Town storyline, and we finally reveal the circumstances behind She-Hulk being disbarred. Whad’ja think?
PAD
The penultimate issue of the current Mutant Town storyline, and we finally reveal the circumstances behind She-Hulk being disbarred. Whad’ja think?
PAD
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Great story, x factor is one of my favorite titles. you actually made arcade not suck, congrats. i can’t wait for the SH/Xfactor crossover ive been hearing about. any chance youll be at WW chicago this year?
Loving what you’re up to with Shulkster, curious to know if there’s a “real” story behing the slain/safe kids. Having recently read the Essential made the return to Savage form for jen that much more intriguing as well
Loving what you’re up to with Shulkster, curious to know if there’s a “real” story behing the slain/safe kids. Having recently read the Essential made the return to Savage form for jen that much more intriguing as well
Loving what you’re up to with Shulkster, curious to know if there’s a “real” story behing the slain/safe kids. Having recently read the Essential made the return to Savage form for jen that much more intriguing as well
Loving what you’re up to with Shulkster, curious to know if there’s a “real” story behing the slain/safe kids. Having recently read the Essential made the return to Savage form for jen that much more intriguing as well
Loving what you’re up to with Shulkster, curious to know if there’s a “real” story behing the slain/safe kids. Having recently read the Essential made the return to Savage form for jen that much more intriguing as well
Loving what you’re up to with Shulkster, curious to know if there’s a “real” story behing the slain/safe kids. Having recently read the Essential made the return to Savage form for jen that much more intriguing as well
As a native of Allentown, I really liked when She-Hulk settled down there. 🙂
I’m sorry to say that, as much as I truly enjoyed the latest issues of X-Factor and She-Hulk and as much as I’m looking forward to the next issues, they paled compared to my enjoyment of X-Factor: The Quick and the Dead. From the opening Dorothy Parker quote to the last line I just enjoyed the hëll of of that one.
Now who wrote that again? No, don’t tell me, it’ll come to me eventually.
I’m sorry to say that, as much as I truly enjoyed the latest issues of X-Factor and She-Hulk and as much as I’m looking forward to the next issues, they paled compared to my enjoyment of X-Factor: The Quick and the Dead. From the opening Dorothy Parker quote to the last line I just enjoyed the hëll of of that one.
Now who wrote that again? No, don’t tell me, it’ll come to me eventually.
Hi,
I’ve always been an avid fan of your work, and the new X-Factor has been on my top-5 titles from Marvel since it started, which is to say, it is pretty dámņ good.
Pos-Messiah, I feel the title has been derailed considerably, but you are known for actually getting good stories out of such… inconveniences. And that seems to be where X-Factor is heading right now: it’s redefining itself. Resolving the last plot issues of former Mutant Town and having the group cope with the loss of Rahne and Layla. Let me say aside that the fact people even care about Layla shows how much skill you have as a story-teller.
I think there is a flaw where all of this is heading, though. It’s not building on what came before. The whole Singularity plot just plainly vanished. We were also told X-Factor would have a hand at reversing the after-effects of M-Day, and yet nothing came out of it.
It was fun to see Arcade show up, and he was pretty well written, but it made me think you will likely not be addressing the events that were happening just before the silly crossover any time soon, which is a shame.
I will keep on reading, though.
RE: X-Factor #31
It had irony, tragedy, and humor. The normal PAD X-Factor.
What it did not have was Layla. Glad to know a one shot is coming out — just not soon enough.
Iowa Jim
Good issues of both books. I think this was my favorite issue of She-Hulk since you took over, and the X-Factor scene with Arcade doing the robot fake-out reminded me of the time in Las Vegas that I caught a show with Mike Michaels, the Mechanical Magician.
Ah, so that’s what’s going on in She-Hulk! Finally I understand what she’s going through. Good issue.
I liked She-Hulk. Okay now that that is out of the way. What happened to Cowboy Pete’s reviews of Lost and Smallville?
Sorry insert this out-of-place question but this thread seemed more appropriate than the political ones.
I really liked She-Hulk. The story was great, and I really liked how Val Semeiks depicted Jen in human form. Kudos. 🙂
X-Factor #31 – what can I say? You made Rictor a hero, even if it was because of dumb luck. Now I’m eager to find out what nefarious plan Val has for the gang. She’s not a Skrull, is she?
Well, I continue to enjoy X-Factor immensely.
She-Hulk, unfortunately, not so much. Jen is, by now, an experienced trial lawyer. She knows not all her clients are angels and should have handled that situation with more composure. Also, going “Savage” again should be a huge deal for her, probaly a bigger deal than being disbarred. (Didn’t she kill a town the last time that happened?)
Bottom line, Shulkie just isn’t working for me, I’m not getting enough of a connection to the character to care what happens next. Currently I plan on sticking with the title until after the X-Factor X-Over (I love what Marvel are currently doing with Hercules anyway) but after that I’m afraid it’s an 80% certainty that I’ll be dropping the title…
Cheers.
Typing about Layla, there was some [alternate universe?] would-be AVENGERS book where the lead character is recruiting new members and Layla is one of those she tries [unsuccessfully] to draft. An adult Layla. Is this a hint of what’s about to be sprung on us? Or was this completely independent of your plans for her?
That wasn’t an adult Layla. That was a badly drawn Layla in a sequence set six months before “Messiah Complex.”
PAD
Speaking of Hulks, I attended a press screening last night of Incredible Hulk, and for those of you who didn’t like the 2003 version (Or as I call it, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Hulk), you’ll probably like this one! It was good! My review is at: http://nitcentral.philfarrand.com/cgi-bin/discus/board-auth.cgi?file=/8/26621.html&lm=1212651332#POST356107. (If the link doesn’t take you to my June 6, 2008 post, just scroll down to it.)
There’s a small section near the end of the review that has some possible spoilers. I worded them vaguely, however, and posted Spoiler and End Spoiler bookend notes. 🙂
Both issues were really good. I want to see a little more of She-Hulk’s cellmate, she is funny.
On other comic topics: PAD what about a Dynamite’s Battlestar Galactica by you. You already wrote a book about the president so I think an Ark on the Origin series or a Zarek type mini-series will be right up you alley.
Loved the She-hulk issue. Your run with her has been very good, and she is not a character I traditionally have much interest in.
The X-Factor issues have been lackluster since the Messiah Complex, I regret to say. I do hope that you can recapture the earlier feeling of the series, but to me it no longer has that feeling. It went from easily being the best X-book, with the possible exception of Astonishing, to being just another X-book.
Funny, I just got my X-Factor fix in the post a couple days ago, the last installment I’ll have shipped out here, as I’ll be home in a month. Among the selections were X-Factor 31 and the Quicksilver special.
The Quicksilver issue was intriguing, but I’m waiting for more. Just how, really, did Pietro get his powers back? What exactly is going on here? It was great fun watching him go wild, but does he honestly have enough energy to run THAT far? Anyway, I loved seeing his unbridled joyousness (yes that IS a real word) at getting his powers back, though the bruised-up face kind of detracted from the effect of his “and you can eat my freaking dust!” moment. I want to know how he got his powers back. Maybe a detailed disclosure wouldn’t be as effective as I suggest, but what in the heck is going on? How many other mutants are going to find themselves suddenly re-powered in moments of stress or heroics? What kind of process is behind this sudden reversal?
Then there was X-Factor #31, which I enjoyed, but it didn’t stack up to a lot of issues that came before it. I loved Val’s line of “Get Tony Stark’s iron ášš over here!” That “iron ášš” makes a great mental image. (Yes, in fact I AM 27 going on 12.) I liked the moment when Rictor sat down and told himself to “make the Earth move,” and yet, it doesn’t give me pleasure to say this, but the way he brought down the barrier still felt just a bit too convenient. It was rushed; it happened so fast, and with such a hasty payoff, that it came across as a deus ex machina. In fact the issue over all felt rather rushed; it seems like it took about 4 minutes to read, and I don’t like my comics to be such quick reads.
Other moments: I liked Nathan on the roof, talking to a Shirley who isn’t there. That’s moving; that’s the kind of emotion I like to see.
I enjoyed Siryn and Strong Guy’s teamwork in rescuing the little kid, but that brings up another question of physics: can she fly at the moment, or not? If her lungs are dinged up, then, okay, she’s not up to flying, but in that case, how did she get into the building in the first place?
Monet rescuing the X/Ms: My g0d, just how strong IS that girl? Day-um.
Overall, I’ve felt that the Arcade storyline has been interesting, and entertaining, but it still looks like a means to an end, rather than a story that you enjoy telling just for its own sake. I’m looking forward to next issue, because I want to see what you have in mind for the future.
I’m also really looking forward to the Layla special! I was happy to hear you were working on it, but I didn’t think it would come out so soon, so, good! I miss Layla.
Tony Jen’s cellmate may have had her slightly amusing side in the first issue, but in this one she’s all too tragic. Another formerly law-abiding citizen for whom the system failed and who saw no option than to deal with the problem herself, only to find herself the subject of the system’s wrath, rather than it falling on the one who deserved it in the first place. That I know why those laws are in place doesn’t make it any less of a tragic mess – especially when it happens in real life.
As for Jen’s getting disbarred. I only have one problem with that. You’re think the bad guys would LOVE to have a fiercely dedicated lawyer working on their side to get them off whatever rap they’ve been subjected to. That one of them effectively removes her would seem to me reason to draw the rest of the super-villain community’s enmity down upon them.
Hi. Long time fan, first time poster here.
I wanted to thank you for “The Quick and the Dead”. Quicksilver has long been one of my favorite Marvel characters, and I’ve been frustrated (if not disgusted) at the way he’s been misinterpreted for several years. I cannot understand why so many writers can’t seem to “get” this character the way you do. So many seem unable to negotiate his intensity and off putting tendencies without making him outright villainous. I’ve been waiting for someone to really capture his essential character for years, and to have you do it is truly (forgive the cliche) a dream come true.
I agree with the poster who said the scene of Pietro speeding around the world was truly joyful, not just for him but for this reader as well. You really conveyed the unburdening of this man’s soul in an emotionally accurate way. Frankly, I don’t care how or why he got his speed powers back, though I’m sure that will be dealt with eventually. To me, it simply signalled that someone had hit upon his core once again, taking him back to the true Quicksilver and away from all the “prince of darkness” persona with the needlessly complicated powers. The scene where Pietro lies in the ocean, not knowing if he’d live or die but thanking his loved ones for loving him signalled a new beginning for this character, unburdened by the darkness and pain in his past. He’d really let go of all of it and “saw the light”, and what an irony that it was his despised foe Layla Miller who showed him the way.
A couple of quick questions, if you don’t mind. I wondered if this development grew out of your own frustration with the way Pietro had been portrayed of late, or did Marvel have his redemption in mind all along? And (Geekboy in full mode now) is there any chance of you crafting further adventures for Pietro?
Again, my thanks,
Hi. Long time fan, first time poster here.
I wanted to thank you for “The Quick and the Dead”. Quicksilver has long been one of my favorite Marvel characters, and I’ve been frustrated (if not disgusted) at the way he’s been misinterpreted for several years. I cannot understand why so many writers can’t seem to “get” this character the way you do. So many seem unable to negotiate his intensity and off putting tendencies without making him outright villainous. I’ve been waiting for someone to really capture his essential character for years, and to have you do it is truly (forgive the cliche) a dream come true.
I agree with the poster who said the scene of Pietro speeding around the world was truly joyful, not just for him but for this reader as well. You really conveyed the unburdening of this man’s soul in an emotionally accurate way. Frankly, I don’t care how or why he got his speed powers back, though I’m sure that will be dealt with eventually. To me, it simply signalled that someone had hit upon his core once again, taking him back to the true Quicksilver and away from all the “prince of darkness” persona with the needlessly complicated powers. The scene where Pietro lies in the ocean, not knowing if he’d live or die but thanking his loved ones for loving him signalled a new beginning for this character, unburdened by the darkness and pain in his past. He’d really let go of all of it and “saw the light”, and what an irony that it was his despised foe Layla Miller who showed him the way.
A couple of quick questions, if you don’t mind. I wondered if this development grew out of your own frustration with the way Pietro had been portrayed of late, or did Marvel have his redemption in mind all along? And (Geekboy in full mode now) is there any chance of you crafting further adventures for Pietro?
Again, my thanks,
X-Factor #31.
While this is easily my favorite on-going series, I’m a little disappointed with the last issue. There are obviously changes coming for the team, but this issue really felt like it lacked depth.
Mutant Town is burning to the ground, but there isn’t much in the issue that compels me to care about it. We are introducted to a poor stand-up comedian and a group of ex-mutants, but neither inspires a desire to see them survive. If the focus was solely on the older gentleman, whom seemed to have a story worth telling, or residents that we had met in earlier in the series, it probably would have drawn me in.
And that’s the problem for me… I don’t care about these new character or the town, so most of the issue is devoid of entertainment.
I miss Layla and Rahne, but they’re not exactly the entire show. I’ll be hoping for something a little more like the earlier issues next month. Here’s hoping.
“She’s NOT an android, Ric”
Been reading X-Factor via TPB’s, therefore missed this.
AS a government worker, I laughed my ášš off and sent it around to a bunch of my co-workers. Thanks!