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From: ccastkv@gitpyr.UUCP (KEITH VAGLIENTI)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: X-Factor
Message-ID: <1028@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 15:08:38 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 14 15:08:38 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 15-Nov-85 05:40:50 EST
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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[eat this you line eater, you]

I think some people need to read Marvel Age, or the Mutant Report to be
specific. It has had some interesting information about X-Factor which
ya'll seem to be missing.
   No, just grabbing mutants off the street and taking them away somewhere to
hide wouldn't do very much for mutantkind. This is probably why X-Factor is
doing more than this. Consider the situation. Magneto has taken over Prof.
Xaviers school. They have only his word that this is what Xavier wanted.
Without Prof. X they have no easy way to find new mutants. So what do they do?
   They set up an agency that people will contact when they think someone they
know is a mutant. X-Factor comes, "fights the dirty mutie," takes the mutant
away. Days or weeks later X-Factor brings the mutant back but...he's been
demutified. The ex-mutant then settles in as a normal human being. The secret
is that X-Factor will be teaching the mutant how to use and, more importantly,
control his powers. This will help the mutants because it says to anti-mutants
that being a mutant is similar to having a disease, that you can be cured of
being a mutant.
   As for their wearing big Xs on their uniforms and then expecting people not
to associate them with X-Factor. These are the original X-Men. That's what they
have always been known as, collectively. This is what people will associate
the X with. Not X-Factor. The question is, will they associate the X-Men with
X-Factor considering the names are so similar.
   About Scott, remember that Jean was his first love and they didn't break
up, Jean committed suicide, or so everyone thought, to save the universe.
Maddy reminds Scott of Jean and even though he loves her some of those feelings
can't help but also be associated with Jean. Add to that the fact that Maddy
and Scott are having marital problems. Witness the fact that upon returning
from Asgard all of the X-Men except Scott called Madelynn to see how she was
doing. Cut Scott some slack if Jean's return causes him some mental anguish
which reflects in his actions. I doubt that in the same circumstance I would
act significantly differently than he has and I doubt ya'll would either.
   I think you have just decided that this is one of Big Bad Jim Shooter's
projects and thus it can't be any good. I disagree. Its nowhere near as bad as
Secret Bores. I don't approve of the way Jean was brought back but I intend to
at least give X-Factor a chance to prove itself instead of condemning it
before consigning it to the garbage pile.

          The oxen are slow but the earth is patient.