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Scott and Jean are reunited. Do you think Scott comes clean and tells her that he’s now married with a child? Nope. They manage to form a new superhero team and enter into a massive business deal together with Cameron Hodge without Scott mentioning anything about it. Huh! (X-Factor #1 – Feb 1986)

It’s only fitting that I begin this brand new reading with the first issue of X-Factor, the series that re-unites the original five X-Men in their own comic book for the first time since 1970. As far as X-Men comics go, it’s a historic one. I don’t know how much of this series I will be covering, but I’m going to be reading it alongside New Mutants and Uncanny X-Men and I’ll post anything that seems relevant to the overall story. Since this issue tells the story of the team reuniting with Jean Grey for the first time since her resurrection, there will be a lot of relevant posts. (X-Factor #1 – Feb 1986)

You fucking dick if you’re still hung up on Jean THEN WHY DID YOU GET MARRIED. Look. There are reasons to end a hostile or emotionally abusive relationship, but Madelyne didn’t do anything wrong!! She never treated you in an abusive manner and she never asked more of you than what you committed to. You just spent a few months pretending not to be a complete dickhead, long enough to court, marry, and impregnate her, and then you reverted back to your true form. He doesn’t even know Jean is still alive here! This is why I have always hated Scott Summers. His treatment of Madelyne was my introduction to his character and it has stuck with me ever since. Seriously fuck this guy!! (X-Factor #1 – Feb 1986)

Oooo Jean Grey is back. For some reason she’s lost her telepathic abilities, but her telekinesis has been amplified. I’m so distracted by what the implications of her return are having on Madelyne that I can’t enjoy what’s going on here. (X-Factor #1 – Feb 1986)

You just slip out the back, Jack. Make a new plan, Stan. You don’t need to be coy, Roy. Just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus. You don’t need to discuss much! Just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free. Also, you don’t need to be a dick, Scott, but you can’t help it because you have a massive throbbing penis face. (X-Factor #1 – Feb 1986)

Welp, here it is ladies and gentlemen. This is the first and last time you will ever see Scott Summers acting like a good husband. Slime-ball shitty bastard husband heading out to pick up a few things and never coming back in t-minus 5… 4… 3… (X-Factor #1 – Feb 1986)

So here’s the first appearance of Cameron Hodge, the villain from X-tinction Agenda. Here he’s just some scummy PR manager that helps X-Factor get their new mutant busting business off the ground. It’s seriously just like Ghostbusters, but instead of busting ghosts they are busting mutants, and instead of imprisoning them they teach them how to use their powers. Just like Professor X used to do! There’s a nice bit of symmetry in the concept of this series with relation to what the original mission of the X-Men used to be. (X-Factor #1 – Feb 1986)

I absolutely, positively, cannot take tortured Scott Summers for one more god damned minute. In all his angst, and for all of everyone else’s efforts to help him deal with it, not one mention is made of the child he walked out on. Sure, he’ll sit there and cry about the guilt HE is feeling because he’s stepping out of his marriage and the effect that’s having on HIM, but no one, not even Bobby, Warren, or Hank mention one god damned word about the baby Scott just completely abandoned the second he learned Jean was still alive. I’m done! (X-Factor #1 – Feb 1986)