X-cellent Comic: X-Factor #1

An X-cellent, X-ceptional and X-citing comic that will X-ceed your wildest X-pectations! Mutant mayhem to the X-treme! The X-istence of this new book will X-hilarate you so much that you will never want to X-ile it from your X-isting collection. What on Earth am I babbling about? Marvel Comic's X-Factor, of course.

This new series from Peter David and Ryan Sook spins out of both the events of House of M/Decimation and David's recent (and really cool) MadroX limited series. Comic book readers who have been around long enough to remember "back in the day" of the early ninties may also recall a time when Mr. David took over the reins of the first incarnation of X-Factor. Back then, Marvel gave David a bunch of mutant characters that no one else wanted and he turned them into the best, most original, mutant team on the block. Mutant losers like Madrox, Rahne (AKA Wolfsbane), and Guido (AKA Strong Guy) were suddenly interesting and involving characters! Unfortunately, the ninties hit comics like a runaway super-villain and X-Factor was a casualty of the times.

David (with some help from Sook's great artwork) seems to be working the same magic with the all-new X-Factor. This time around Jamie Madrox (Multiple Man) is heading up the newly revamped X-Factor Investigations detective agency with a little help from his buddies Strong Guy, Rahne, Siryn, Monet, and (maybe) a de-powered Rictor. One of the things Peter David does best is to find new and different ways to look at old characters and concepts. In X-Factor, he has created a very different kind of mutant team book. This book has a very film-noir feel. These are not characters who are going to pull on spandex and go fight Magneto. They have smaller, and consequently, more involving, stories.

David also finds some great new twists to Madrox's power. On the surface, being able to make instant copies of yourself seems pretty cool. Don't want to go to work or school? Make a copy! Need to move some heavy furniture? Make ten copies! Got two hot dates for the same night just like on a cheesy sit-com? You get the idea. Too bad for Jamie, there are some unexpected dark sides to being your own best friend. Ever have a mental squabble with yourself over a tough decision? What if you actually got in your own face and gave yourself a bunch of lip over making the wrong choice? You would probably get on your own nerves pretty darn fast.

X-Factor #1 has all the X-citement you can handle! Buy a copy today while it is covered by Four Color Fantasies' X-cellent money back guarantee! X-plicate your desire to read this book of unX-pected (I stole that one from the cover) delights. Just don't X-pectorate on the sidewalk. It's X-tra rude.