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X-Factor 26 Second Printing |
| Item: |
X-Factor 26 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
0942436011
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Owner Comments
"Charles, you trained me to be leader of the X-Men. Didn't it ever occur to you that, for me to take the reins...you'd have to stop driving?"
--Cyclops
This was a cool issue in the story and pivitol in the X-Men storyline. Cyclops and Xavier have gone back and forth with there want in leading the X-Men in whatever direction they believe it needs to go in. But in this issue you finally see Cyclops has shed the student persona and became become the Leader of the X-Men. He didn't do it by any other way than to demand it for his one time mentor and father figure.
Additionally this covers a ton of ground as X-Force is hot on the trail of Cable, And Jamie Maddrox is in the future with his side kick attempting to find information on what happened.
With X-Force you see that Warpath is starting to want to go his own way and that his alleigance with Wolverine could never trump his with Cable. He knows what X-Force does in that it is a kill squad but also wants to ensure his mentor isn't simply run through.
This issue then cuts to Cable having been found by the Purifiers led by Lady Deathstrike but happens to have one of the most amusing pieces of art for me being a Cable fan when he grabs her by the hair from behind him and body slamms her into the ground by it...Awesome.
Oh yeah and somewhere in there Mr. Peepers... Horrible Hero name, is killed by Predator X and eaten.
My Take:
There is so much information jammed in this one that in a way I wish it would have been expanded a little. The jump from X-Force to X-Factor to X-Men to Cable truly shows that this issue isn't so much an X-Factor 26 issue but a Messiah Complex issue. Maybe they shuold have simply made a Messiah Complex series and spun off a few of the additional story lines for X-Factor, X-Force, and the X-Men.
Still it was great seeing Cyclops tell everyone else to go away and then to tell Xavier to basiclly stick to what his job is and to stop thinking he is still the leader.
Best piece of art...Cable smash using Lady Deathstrikes hair as a way to swing her around. If only most girl fights would go this way.
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