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From: tim@k.cs.cmu.edu (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: X-Factor review (and spoiler)
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Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 04:29:43 EST
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The reactions to X-Factor were interesting.  My feelings were quite
positive; I bought it in a sort of semi-ashamed way, expecting to take it
home and hate it, but willing to give it a shot because Layton's been so
good in the past (especially, of course, the Hercules mini-serieseseseses).
Lo and behold, it was actually a lot of fun!  The characters were the same
old X-Men I knew and loved from Stan Lee and Roy Thomas, but filtered
through the more mature stylistic perspectives of modern comics.  I'd call
this easily better than the original series for that reason (and
=especially= better than Thomas....)  The premise was kinky and enjoyable,
though I think "Let's screw over the mutant-haters while pretending to help
them" will probably start wearing thin pretty soon. The emotional scenes
between Scott, Madelyn, and Jean were handled well, with a frankness and
straightforwardness totally absent in Claremont's dripping, heavy handed
sentimentality.  I'm actually looking forward to the next issue, which I
wouldn't have believed a week before the first came out.

Did other people expect some WONDERFUL NEW COMIC that would REDEEM THE
FIELD, or what?  If so, I can understand your disappointment, but coming at
it not expecting much certainly made it seem pretty good!
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