Man, I sure do love this comic.
I've only read half the issue so far, but I wanted to start writing the post. What's amazing is that thirty seconds ago I was totally ready to type up a description of how Peter David had let the readers down, and had slumped into mediocrity after a really strong run.
Then it all came together. And it was awesome.
See, in so many comics the same things happen again and again. They move the story along, they can even go original places, but those little things, well, they don't change too often.
The last place I was so regularly surprised by a story was Firefly. It wasn't that I didn't think I knew what was happening, what was going to happen, but rather that I thought I did, and was delighted to be wrong.
It's like, it can be cheap and easy to use these things, and it's more difficult not to. The thing most people miss, though, is that the most difficult thing is to use common, well known tropes, but to use them in new ways, to make them fresh without becoming ridiculous.
And X-Factor is very good at that.
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