#xfactor65

So Lex Luthor made the Danger Room and X-Factor’s coffee machine??? It wasn’t even Jim Lee this time! Stop drawing this shit in the panels you sexy new hot shot artists! (X-Factor #65 – Apr 1991)

Well shit are these Apocalypse’s new horsemen? What happened to his old horsemen? Last we saw they were all drinking Sierra Mist and toasting to their failures. There’s like seven of these guys so I guess they can’t be horsemen. They are just a bunch of nobodies that Apocalypse hired to attack X-Factor because he’s butthurt about his spaceship betraying him. Why doesn’t he just go beat up the X-Men himself?? Why is he always hiring these nobodies to do things for him?? He’s like the most powerful mutant in existence but he has to get Hardrive to do his fighting for him?? Like he could literally just walk into the ship, punch every member of X-Factor once, pick up the ship, and carry it back into space all by himself. Why are all of his plans so elaborate! Just go do it! (X-Factor #65 – Apr 1991)

These goons don’t seem like a match for the X-Men, but if all Apocalypse is trying to do is get his ship back, that seems like a more plausible goal. I don’t remember ship being included in the story after this point, so its days may be numbered. Or I have a bad memory. (X-Factor #65 – Apr 1991)

Oh my god someone needs to barf all over those frumpy overalls! I hope his ice sled crashes into a rusty saw blade factory and they all get tetanus! (X-Factor #65 – Apr 1991)

The only reason I’m sticking with these last couple of X-Factor comics is because it will be over soon. The team is about to change completely and Peter David is about start writing. Like I did when I stopped reading Excalibur, I’m going to try to re-focus on the most important X-Men comics in an effort to speed up my reading. And X-Factor is my least favorite X-Men series anyway. It’s had its moments, but for the most part it’s seemed like the less essential and less interesting, tag-along X-Men book. While they’ll always hold a special place in my heart, the original X-Men have always been the least interesting X-Men, and aside from Archangel, who the writers basically changed into an edgelord, nothing has been done in this series to make these characters any more interesting. Sometimes I wonder if it’s even possible to do a super engaging story with the original X-Men. They are all so bland and self-obsessed. I guess it’s not like Wolverine isn’t self-obsessed, but he’s also a complete maniac which is more fun. I dunno. I do like reading about these characters, but I do it with the same hate-watch mentality that I employ when watching old episodes of Full House. I guess we’ll see what the MCU does with these characters. (X-Factor #65 – Apr 1991)