All credit goes to Tiger. A promising start!

PAD returns to X-Factor and it's awesome. There's some lovely artwork here too. Moving straight on to vol. 2 now...

Holy shit...I mean I liked Vol 0 (Madrox story) but goddamn, talk about captivating from beginning to end huh? So here we have the X-Factor group coming together. They are basically a Mutant group trying to work together as a detective agency helping people. So think almost like Angel but darker and hits some great surprise twist as it goes. From issue 1 onward I knew we were in for a treat and once we get into the thick of things, the themes that go so well with X-men (Such as racism and sexism...

From a bunch of C-listers nobody cares much about- really, who cares about Monet, Guido, Syrin, Rahne, Rictor and even Madrox?- Peter David manages to build a gang you actually root for!A-fuckin’-mazing.In the aftermath of House of M, X-factor opens a kind of P.I. agency-so there’s an immediate cool noir feel- and deals with a diffuse threat from a corporation with an obvious hidden agenda and the more open threats of racism, bigotry and other niceties.These social issues are brilliantly dealt w...

This rules. I might review it later, but if I don't just know that it's real good and I can't wait to continue. I especially love the beginnings of exploring how lowkey fucked up Jamie's powers are.

Now this is pure gold! I'm telling you - pure gold!I've been hearing how great this book is for over a decade, yet I never had the chance to read it. Well, I finally started it today and finished volume 1 in one sitting it's just that addictive.The writing is perfect, absolutely perfect. Great characters - heavy and dark and complicated and completely amazing. Great atmosphere - it's a lot like the tv series Angel, only darker. The detective agency and all of that feels really close to the recen...

X-Factor is a detective agency consisting of quirky B- and C-listers of Marvel's mutant world, like Madrox the Multiple Man, Guido the Strong Guy (literally his superhero alias), Syrin, Wolfsbane and others. They investigate crimes and keep the peace in their neighbourhood after the events of House of M, which left 90% of the mutant population depowered and brought a lot of angry ex-mutants out on the streets. The premise may not sound as exciting as it is, so let me just say — this series is gr...

This was a pretty good read!X-Factor is established and we have SIryn and Monet and Rictor joining in and well Theresa investigates the case of a missing sister and it connects to her previous case and well her new foe "Singularity Investigations" aren't taking lightly to her presence and on the other hand we have Jamie and Monet in some prison thing trying to protect the sister and then enter Dr Leery and her having taken Theresa and an interesting story with Layla miller and her powers?Its an

Welcome back to my Throwback Thursday series, where I republish old reviews, review books I have read before or review older books I have only just had a chance to read. For this Throwback Thursday I look at the start of one of the best comic series I have ever had the pleasure of reading, with The Longest Night, the first volume in Peter David’s impressive and incredible X-Factor series. X-Factor is back, and this time they are in business for themselves as X-Factor Investigations, the weirdest...

Back in '91 the X-titles had that big ol' shakeup in the midst of their popularity's peak. The one title that initially looked like it got the short end was X-Factor. A group of mostly no name or secondary characters filled out the entire roster of what used to be the original X-Men. And yet one could argue it turned out to be the best of those series while Peter David manned the ship.So now (or a few years ago) Peter David restarts the title following a successful Madrox miniseries and he retur...

A solid start. Better art than Madrox: Multiple Choice, and the writing even stronger. Does those inter-scene cuts through thematic line choice delightfully well. And while the subplot in Multiple Choice just went nowhere at all other than to include tragic queer death*, the subplots in these are attention catching. What is up with Laylah Miller, what's going on with Tryp, even Rictor's struggle with no longer being a mutant are handled in a way to keep me reading on. It's a solid story on its o...

I've known that this series is a fan favorite for years, and I'm only now getting around to reading it. It's really THAT good! It's a bunch of C list characters I've never read before, but they play so well off of one another, and the writing is so great! Madrox is pretty interesting, and I can't wait to see where this series goes. 5/5 stars.

Kind of a weak start. Lots of into work & while the artwork is appropriate for the noir theme it's not fun to look at. These characters are an interesting mix & this is one of my favorite comic runs ever so i know it gets better. Best part is "you and what army?" Hahaha Reading this now makes me miss Jaime all the more in the Dawn of X books. One-man-security-force doesn't do the work Peter David did here justice.

I love Madrox. I love Layla Miller. I love Peter David! Which is why I really want his "how to write comics" book, 'cause I'd love to take advice from him. The art in these is greatly constructed together, the story is interesting and relevant, the characters are well fleshed out and relate able and lovable. And funny. I love Peter David's X-Factor universe, and I just order the prequel to this, which I'm super excited for (and which is semi expensive due to not being in print anymore. :( ) X-Fa...

This volume collects issues #1–6 of X-Factor (vol. 3), which marked Peter David's return to the team and many of the characters on which he had worked in the '90s. This newer series, however, is much darker, both in tone and actual colouring, and presents an all new X-Factor, lead by none other than Jamie Madrox, the Multiple Man. Functioning as detective agency in Mutant Town in the aftermath of the big X-event Decimation (in which Marvel apparently de-powered 90% of their overly expanded mutan...

Peter David once again surprises me with a great story!This volume was great! Much like the original "Madrox: Multiple Choice" book written as a sort of volume 0 for this series, X-Factor: The Longest Night is an excellent, tightly written and coherent story. Plenty of threads are introduced and set-up, and all of them are quite interesting. The humour is on point, and the character's dynamic is interesting. While the book is consistently enjoyable, I will say that no issue ever reaches the qual...

My first reaction Peter David's X-factor was a sense of annoying that it was more noir fodder. I quickly realised that I was wrong, more elements constantly added to the main plot. Even the small changes to characters like Madrox pay off big as the series progresses. David's vision for the X-factor line is one of the most impressive interpretations that i've seen in the superhero genre. The story is so interesting and it gets better issue by issue. Usually crossover events (in this case the M-Da...

The plot in this book is interesting, but the main draw of X-Factor is the character interactions. The fact that I had little to no knowledge of these characters when I initially read X-factor, yet came away caring about them all (well most of them -- Rictor is a cry baby) after just 6 issues should speak volumes about Peter David's ability to make you care about characters. Now, rereading the series, the interactions are as fun and charged as I remembered them being.

Book Info: This collection contains X-Factor issues #1-6.ABSOLUTE RATING: {3.5/5 stars}STANDARDIZED RATING: <4/5 stars>On the heels of the mutant decimation, a violent activist movement has traumatized Mutant Town, and divided it's residents on the issue of whether M-Day was a blessing or a curse. But all this commotion must be set aside by Jamie Madrox and his crew at X-Factor Investigations – a private investigator agency recently established by Jamie within Mutant Town – while they tackle...

Has there been any X-Team that's changed its fundamental purpose more than X-Factor? It started as a way to get the original 5 X-men back in the game and has the front of being a government backed hunter of mutants. But that actually aimed to save them. Then the Havoc-led team still had the gov't connection but changed it a bit. Now this team is a detective agency. I really liked the twist. The character-driven stories make it a great read. And since the I've been away from the characters for so...