X-Factor #248 Review/Spoilers

[Atomiq]

The only mutants to get solo titles are those who branch outside their powers. Wolverine's metal. Cable's gunz and slidez. Gambit's cards, staff and musk. Butterfly is on the right track.

[jarrod]

Best part was Lorna and Shatty. lol

It looked like Lorna was taking a leadership role in the absence of Maddox.

She should continue doing so when that loser returns. :)

[1derer]

The only mutants to get solo titles are those who branch outside their powers. Wolverine's metal. Cable's gunz and slidez. Gambit's cards, staff and musk. Butterfly is on the right track.

Cogent analysis.

[Flameworthy]

This issue was much better storywise than the last issue. The last one was pretty blah. However, I do wish Pip would have stayed dead and the art was really bad. Most of the characters looked like cardboard cutouts. I'm hoping the next issue won't focus on Pip so much.

[Bookem Danno]

[CENTER]
Pip finds himself in the White Hot Room,

How are we supposed to know that? Isn't that connected to Phoenix and Mar-Vell and Eon? Thanos ain't dead is he or does he got access to this room to feel getting kicked in the crotch?

This issue was honestly a little lacklustre for me. The story was essential to bridge the gap from Breaking Points to the Hell on Earth War, but somehow I feel like not much happened.

I felt the same.

Although I really enjoyed Popo's slapping fight with Pipet,

Pipet is Pip and Monet but how is does Popo work?

I'm not sure how I feel about this development for Monet. Everything seems to indicate that she'll be checked out for the next few issues, which is kind of disappointing.

I kinda like this "ALL OF ME" flip on Tomlin/Martin movie. It could be entertaining if they kept it going for a lot of issues while Pip's body heals at a reasonable rate.

I felt like it was a significant improvement over the bare, empty backgrounds Davidson drew in the Morrigan issues.

Yeah, the art was okay by me - there's been complainably worse X-Factor issues of art.

I loved the Shatterstar/Polaris moment a lot.

"DAY'S NOT OVER." :)

Polaris' costume is horrible. It's a punch in the eye compared to the rest of them. Just put on a green trenchcoat please.

Thankfully the COLORING helped tone down Lorna's TACKY costume design - and that trenchcoat helped too.

Well, at least the big "end of the world" thing that's been building for the past year and a half in this title is finally coming to pass.

Haven't really got a sense of this beyond online solicits and chatter.

Too much focus on Pip. Again. He's like Doop, a nasty character we're supposed to find endearing and surprisingly badass at times but is just grating.

No comparison. Pip leaves Doop in the dust. I like Pip but understand your concern for a lower facetime for a non-title character. If he can survive longer as a background character he may gain more fans.

I agree. X-Treme has replaced X-Factor as my fave tbh.

No comparison. Xfactor leaves Xtreme in the dust.

It's because Siryn's not in the book anymore, Justin. She was clearly carrying this whole series ;)

It would be fine if she stayed away 'til 2014-15.

It did come off as a little rushed. But maybe that makes sense with the holidays being here.

I would hope that is not a valid excuse. I look forward to next ish.

[Vexx]

I know I'm a little late to the party here, but I finally picked up two weeks worth of comics today.

Nice issue. The art was really quite off-putting, but the writing was pretty solid. I'm pretty excited that we're finally heading to 'Hell on Earth' but I feel that we could have gotten here a few issues ago? That's not really meant to be a criticism, it's just a thought.

Pip does wain on me though. I enjoy small pip-quips, but I don't enjoy it when he eats up large parts of an issue.

Could we please have more Polaris/Richter/Star? I loved the three of them in this issue.