X-Factor #5 Preview Pages!

[Fede]

here's the link, just scroll down:

http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0603/15/marvelfirsts.htm

there's also storm #2 and x-men #184, wich preview has already been posted (anyway there's a previously unseen page :p)

[Hi-Fi]

Looks and reads so good!!

Rictor is growing on me. I was never a big fan, but I'm enjoying his presence in this book.

[Affinity]

I couldn't understand anything!

[Hi-Fi]

I couldn't understand anything!

Why?? :confused:

[Mitsaso]

It's quite spooky. I suppose that creepy guy just found Syrin where the guy who beat her up abandonded her and decided she would make good "company" for him :eek:

It feel a little like sidetracking from the main plot though. But I'm under the impression that X-Factor doesn't go in arcs anyway.

[streator]

decent preview, although i wish sook was still on the book.
i have a question, though:
tryp first was going to kill siryn (until layla intervened) then he next mentioned she was someone good enough to "bring home to kill mom" or something, and then he beat the sh$* out of her at the end of last issue. i'm having trouble reading his motives about her, i guess. if he wanted to kill her originally why didn't he kill her at the end of issue 4?

[The Lucky One]

I may have misread the scene, but I didn't think that was Tryp himself beating Siryn at the end of issue 4... I interpreted it as just another flunky of Singularity. Either way, though, he may have decided she could be useful in the future, but right now is a player he doesn't want on the field. Who knows? With a psychic working for them, maybe the future changed and now she needs to be alive.

-D

[Madrox84]

Looks cool, i can't wait for this issue to come out :D

[That JonoGuy]

Looks good. I'm starting to miss Sook already though. These pages pale in comparison. Good enough for me though.

Oh, FYI, it looks like X-Factor is getting Hardcover (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0785123512/qid=1142534535/sr=1-11/ref=sr_1_11/103-4973531-6477463?s=books&v=glance&n=283155) treatment. I've only gotten the first two issues, so I may just end up picking up the HC instead. Did I mention I love HC's! :D

[riotgear]

I'm hoping this is just a fill-in until they announce the new permanent artist, because Calero's work is not bad, it just doesn't do it for me.

[Steven F.]

Callero is on it at least through #12, this has been confirmed.

[Beast]

Damn, I was hoping Dark Beast was going to be the Doctor who popped up in Mutant Town. :)

[HellFrost]

...I'm officially creeped out.

...and was it just me... or was a page upside down.........?

[fishtaco]

Damn, I was hoping Dark Beast was going to be the Doctor who popped up in Mutant Town. :)Y'know, that's not a bad idea. Dark Beast in the book would be cool. Him and Madrox have some unfinished business.

[Gaveedra 6]

I'm liking Callero's art. He's got a pretty unique style. Sort of a Sienkevicz/Hitch feel. I hope fans aren't too tough on him just 'cause he's not Sook. If he's given a chance to develop and really make this book his own, it could be really cool.

[streator]

I may have misread the scene, but I didn't think that was Tryp himself beating Siryn at the end of issue 4... I interpreted it as just another flunky of Singularity. Either way, though, he may have decided she could be useful in the future, but right now is a player he doesn't want on the field. Who knows? With a psychic working for them, maybe the future changed and now she needs to be alive.

-D
i think it's supposed to be tryp. look at his face when he opens the package and then the character's face looking down at siryn. not to mention, both tryp and the character beating on siryn are wearing a suit and a red tie (and both have blue eyes).
and you're right about tryp's reasoning, plans could have changed.

[Cthulhudrew]

i think it's supposed to be tryp. look at his face when he opens the package and then the character's face looking down at siryn. not to mention, both tryp and the character beating on siryn are wearing a suit and a red tie (and both have blue eyes).

Actually, I don't think it's Tryp... and yet it is Tryp. It isn't Tryp junior (who has more hair), but this person is referred to as Tryp, and so I'm thinking it is another of the Tryp relatives (maybe the middle child?). Tryp= three; I think we are dealing with three different people: Elder Tryp (from issue #1), Tryp Jr. (from the dealings with Siryn and Madrox), and this Tryp (who beats the snot out of Siryn and receives the dead body).

[Haunt]

Actually, I don't think it's Tryp... and yet it is Tryp. It isn't Tryp junior (who has more hair), but this person is referred to as Tryp, and so I'm thinking it is another of the Tryp relatives (maybe the middle child?). Tryp= three; I think we are dealing with three different people: Elder Tryp (from issue #1), Tryp Jr. (from the dealings with Siryn and Madrox), and this Tryp (who beats the snot out of Siryn and receives the dead body).


well i think that all of the Tryp's are really just one Tryp from multiple points in time.

[Cthulhudrew]

well i think that all of the Tryp's are really just one Tryp from multiple points in time.

I'm sure there's something going on like that. Ever since I saw the statue of Romulus and Remus in the elder Tryp's room in #1, I've been pretty convinced that we were dealing with some kind of "Multiple Man" situation- whether it be dupes, time displaced dupes, alternate reality dupes, clones, or whatever, there definitely seems to be something out of the ordinary with the Tryps.

[Tre Styles]

I thought the same thing about Tryp. He was acting bizarre. And I think that it might be because he's a multiple man himself....or the other things you just said above. Hmmm, we could be right, we could just be straight tryping. :p
sorry.I just couldn't resist.... ;)

[Doom Hammer]

Y'know, that's not a bad idea. Dark Beast in the book would be cool. Him and Madrox have some unfinished business.

"Unfinished", or "uninteresting"? ;)

When you have a franchise like X-Men, with so many characters an a convoluted past, I think that it's okay to move forward every once in a while and not refer to old continuity. I mean, realistically, EVERY character has history with EVERY other character. :p

Plus, X-Factor is great as is, being an isolated X-book in its own little corner.

I'm not suggesting that continuity should be disregarded or ignored, but maybe just...not mentioned, either.

[Affinity]

Ohhh! I was clicking on different stuff when I read the preview the first time. Much better now.

Poor Siryn!

[fishtaco]

"Unfinished", or "uninteresting"? ;)

When you have a franchise like X-Men, with so many characters an a convoluted past, I think that it's okay to move forward every once in a while and not refer to old continuity. I mean, realistically, EVERY character has history with EVERY other character. :p

Plus, X-Factor is great as is, being an isolated X-book in its own little corner.

I'm not suggesting that continuity should be disregarded or ignored, but maybe just...not mentioned, either.Why not? I can care less if new readers get confused. I'm a new reader. I've been reading X-Men for about 2.5 years. So?

[Tre Styles]

Isn't Dark Beast decimated?

[Beast]

Isn't Dark Beast decimated?
No. He is still powered according to the X-Men: The 198 Files. :)

[Haunt]

No. He is still powered according to the X-Men: The 198 Files. :)


kind of makes you wonder why doesn't it? there's no hiding that the AoA characters (Sugar Man and Holocaust) have been systematically killed off in the past few years. why is McCoy still alive? and why is he hogging one of the 198 spots?

[Beast]

kind of makes you wonder why doesn't it? there's no hiding that the AoA characters (Sugar Man and Holocaust) have been systematically killed off in the past few years. why is McCoy still alive? and why is he hogging one of the 198 spots?
Sugar Man was fairly hated, and I'm surprised it took him this long to be killed. Holocaust was in limbo a while as well, and finally killed in Exiles. Dark Beast however still has potential, given that his character can easily be behind a bunch of troubles for the X-Men in the future. We'll have to wait and see, those who showed up in the 198 Files had upcoming storylines or appearances. :)

[Hi-Fi]

Sugar Man was fairly hated, and I'm surprised it took him this long to be killed. Holocaust was in limbo a while as well, and finally killed in Exiles. Dark Beast however still has potential, given that his character can easily be behind a bunch of troubles for the X-Men in the future. We'll have to wait and see, those who showed up in the 198 Files had upcoming storylines or appearances. :)

I bet CC saved him from decimation. ;)

[Hi-Fi]

Sugar Man was the worst character ever! Yes, worse than Mammomaxx.

[Beast]

Sugar Man was the worst character ever! Yes, worse than Mammomaxx.
Agreed. I love Mammomax compared to Sugar Man. God... what were they thinking with him getting the port over from AoA. Everyone else at least had some potential. :p

[Alex A Sanchez]

I didn't think that was Tryp himself beating Siryn at the end of issue 4... I interpreted it as just another flunky of Singularity.

Peter David said on his blog that it was Tryp Junior, that it was the art that made him look murky. There was not supposed to be any confusion over who it was.

[Alex A Sanchez]

i have a question, though:
tryp first was going to kill siryn (until layla intervened) then he next mentioned she was someone good enough to "bring home to kill mom" or something, and then he beat the sh$* out of her at the end of last issue.

No- the hitman was sent to kill Rictor, since SI believed he was the "X-Factor" who messed up their plans. What they didn't know was that Layla was the "X-Factor", and it looks like she can take care of herself. :)