thoughts on X-Factor (III)
Um, yeah. Too twitchy to sleep. Catching up on the X-Factor issues I've been putting off, knowing the impeding heartbreak & rant that was bound to follow. Sort of spoilers, in the vaguest of senses. So, under a cut?
Note: Once you hit #207, they're much less vague and way more rant-filled.
X-Factor (III) 204: Still very confused on how M & Strong Guy ended up where they are, but I have given up on that damn thing; so not worth the brain process when even no one over at comicvine knows the answer.
What the hell? why/how/wherethefuck did Shatterstar come from, when he should be god-knows-where with Miss I-Get-to-Determine-Destiny (I love Layla, I really do, but serously, she's getting a little too creepy). And where the hell'd he go after? Back with Layla, no explinations needed? This is begining to become a very annoying theme...
X-Factor (III) 205: Yay! Layla & Shatterstar to the rescue! *girly squee* Have I mentioned I love Layla?
Paranoid Jamie. While very Noir, it doesn't suit him very well. Maybe it's because I still think of him as the New Mutant's Iceman; juvinile, silly, and light-hearted most of the time, dispite himself.
Crazy tech. over-use! Layla now has all the requirements to be the next Jean Grey. And by that I mean she's insainly powerful, can beat anyone in a fight and therefor will have to be offed in the most idiotic way possible to justify being able to have her die, given that she's insainly powerful.
X-Factor (III) 206: Um, is it just me or is M way out of character in how she handled being used as a battery again. I mean, anyone in their right mind would be pissed, but she spent, what, half of Gen. M as Penance? Shouldn't she have just killed him ASAP?
*snickers* I love the weird dynamic Shatterstar & Layla have going. Like they're both totally insane, of the two only Layla really realizes this, but they both have crazy fun with being compleatly out of their tree. And poor Syren (sorry, Banshee) is just hanging on for dear life.
...wait. Pause/stop/rewind/whatever. The hell? What's with the last pannel? Do not tell me Madrox & Banshee are getting back together, because I may have to hurt someone.
X-Factor (III) 207: Why isthe lady at X-Factor dressed like evil!Emma Frost, only in green? Whatever the reason, I love Jamie's monologe. It's just so special. Is it weird that I sometimes catching myself thinking this way?
What happened to Longshot's brain? Its usually a little more functional then that. isn't it?
Usually, I hate the expression 'okey-dokey'. It's so stupid and overly childish. But somehow when Layla says i, I find it adorable. Even when she's an adult.
Okay, I take it back. Monet is very much herself. As is Layla, with the knowing stuff. (Athough, really, sould she still be knowing stuff? They showed her do the downloa on her younger self and this is after that, which should mean that none of te stuff she's doing now after the mind-dump was preformed should have been in the information.) And I really loved the crack about M's hard head and it harming the floor. Beautiful.
Huh. I can see both Shatterstar and Rictor's point of view. That doesn't happen very often. And while in my mind, I'm screaming "no, Rictor, don't leav! Come on! You luv him!" the fact that I'm thinking 'luv' (an absolutely horrible term that teenage girls use on crushes, which is obviously associated in their own heads with 'love' and is bound to really set a standard for realtionships later in life. RE; Stacey McGill [BSC]) rather then 'love' is proof that I don't really think much of Shatterstar's behavior since he came back. So even though the 'shipper in me is throwing a fit, logically, I think Rictor did the right thing. To have just dropped his frustration and anger would be like saying Shatterstar was the only thing in life that mattered and his own feelings be damned. Which is about as healthy as 'luv'.
- Huh? He wants to have an open relationship, but he wants Rictor to be there to share it with him? Again, huh?
- Okay, I admit it the kiss was cute as was 'Star's fumbled apology. But I don't think that Rictor should have compleatly folded. I'm not saying that he should have just stormed off or told Shatterstar that he wouldn't stay with him, but he could at least have said that they would need to discuss it later.
Huhnowwhat? What the hell is that guy?
Oh, cool, he's actually going to stand up for himself. For some reason, I wasn't expecting it, even though that would certanly have been OOC.
Oh, God, poor Rahne. That's one way to learn your ex isn't going to take you back when you come home, knocked up with another guy's kid. <3 'Star's reaction, although I doubt very much that Rictor or Rahne did.
X-Factor (III) 208: Why does Layla look like Theresa with the 'M' brand? Didn't they learn after having to do a re-print when they made that mistake with M insted of Banshee?
"What's you game?" - "Nude twister, but not with you." - "Doctor Doom." - "Not him, either, and may I add : ewwww." *giggle!snort!gasp* I cannot express how hystarical I found this line. (And it is totally because Layla's just that amazing and has nothing to do with the fact that it's 2:30AM and I'm still jumpy & unable to sleep.)
(RE; Jamie) "...I didn't sleep with him..." Um, what? I call bullshit! She did too! Also, what the fuck is up with her sending Rahne up to find naked-boy-happy Rictor/Shatterstar? Okay, loving Layla a little less right now...
Soap opera time! That's really the only to discribe the three groups of insanity happening in, what, six pages?
*giggle fit* Love Shatterstar. Only he would think being attacked by easily-assumed-rabed pregnant she-wolf is funny.
Serously? She's going to lie to Rictor's face and say the damn thing is his? I never thought I'd say this, but where's that insanely strict Catholic moral code she lives by? You know, the one that allows her to date 16-year-olds, fuck-and-dump another and sign up for a wetworks team?
Mystery woman is the same person as the Hell-Goddess who lent Dani her powers in the Dark Reign arc? I admit, I wasn't expecting that.
X-Factor (III) 209: It cannot be said enough; Shatterstar is insane. And awesomely hystarical about it.
When exactly did Jamie become the responcible adult of the group? I mean, I know that in theory he was the boss and everything, but he never acted like it (which may explain why no one ever really treated him as such. Go figure).
How many gay jokes can Strong Guy make before it becomes offencive? Because I'm pretty sure it already should be offencive, but I only seem to find it amusing.
Why the hell would Rictor try to pin it on Jamie of all people? I mean, I know the thing with the alchol, the dupes and the sleeping with both Theresa & Monet, but still. They're like siblings, only without the wanting to killl each other bit.
- And why the hell would everyone else assume it was Jamie? Good Lord. He's not the whore of the building. That would be Rahne.
Oh my God. I lovelovelove Layla's outfit here. Although, if it wern't for the brand, you wouldn't know it was her, the way her face is drawn. But still, I love the dress and ram-ribbon.
Wow, Layla's snarky. Either this is a new side or her, or it's further bad character-drawing. I'm going with snarky.
What's with Banshee's weird pose at the Craps (I think that's what that game is) table? It looks more like a Dazzler pose by Greg Land.
- And Layla could be mistaken for Frost in the last pannel on the page where she's discussing Shatterstar with Strong Guy in the hotel suit.
*sigh* I used to love X-Factor, even when the art was shit. It's like finding out Santa Clause isn't real all over again.
So, in summary, ever since House of M, I've been under the ever-increasing opinion that Marvel is the shit (and as anyone who knows me in real life can tell you, I don't use that expression to mean 'cool') & X-Factor was one of the few titles I didn't feel that that applied to, until now. Oh, and I love Layla & Shatterstar. Did I say that yet?
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