No, it’s not really the last issue of “Fallen Angel.” We’re relaunching with a new storyline in a few months.
As for X-Factor, my feelings on spoilers for this issue are well known, but I figure I might as well start a comments thread before people start posting in other threads. All I ask is that if you have not yet read X-Factor, for crying out lout, DON’T READ THIS THREAD.
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UPDATE: On Newsarama the week of January 5th, there was some debate as to whether there should be active speculation about the baby. Those who felt they knew what I was up to were worried that accurately guessing would spoil it for others. I didn’t think that it would, but I offered to let people send me guesses and I would post in this space if anyone got it right so they could have bragging rights.
One person did: The fan who posts under the name “Wraith.” He didn’t quite foresee the shocking result, but he got the main beat correct. So he gets to boast that he thinks like Peter David…which, in the final analysis, is a dubious distinction at best.
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Oh, yeah. This was just the story for a guy with a six-month pregnant wife. (OK, I realize that it is not only fiction but science fiction. It’s still creepy as all get-out and there is no way in Heaven, Hëll, or Earth that I’m sharing this one with my wife!) It wouldn’t have affected me so much if it weren’t so well written. I seriously hope that Theresa kicks his %*(&.
I’ll go on record as someone who feels bad for both Theresa and Jamie. Sometimes the blame levied on you by others is nothing compared to the blame you lay on yourself. (Hence the dupe yelling at him that he deserves it as Terry tries to rip his chest open.) The absorption happened within seconds of Jamie assuring himself that everything was going to be all right; this is something that’s going to eat at him for a long time.