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Rowr. (X-Factor: Prisoner of Love)
Beast goes hardboiled. (X-Factor: Prisoner of Love)
“Join me on the windowsill, that we may exchange portentous but vague endearments.” (X-Factor: Prisoner of Love)
This seems like it’s going to be a really big deal, but it’s not. (X-Factor: Prisoner of Love)
Eldritch horrors, amirite? (X-Factor: Prisoner of Love)
One of the coolest things about the art in Prisoner of Love is how well Guice makes not-actually-supernatural things look really eerie. (X-Factor: Prisoner of Love)
Well, that can’t be good. (X-Factor: Prisoner of Love)
This page is kinda Prisoner of Love in a nutshell: the symbolism is basically illusory, but it’s so stylish that I don’t really care. (X-Factor: Prisoner of Love)
THAT OUTFIT, THO. (X-Factor: Prisoner of Love)
“This would be so much cooler if one of us could turn into a bear.” (X-Factor: Prisoner of Love)
That’s rough, buddy. (X-Factor: Prisoner of Love)
Well, then. (X-Factor: Prisoner of Love)
AND NOW, CYBURAI! (X-Factor #63)
That window looks super technoorganic, though, right? (X-Factor #63)
NICELY DONE, BOBBY. (X-Factor #63)
“We’ll go rescue your girlfriend in a sec, but first check out our rad new costumes!” (X-Factor #63)
The Cyburai.
Nah, sorry, these are the actual Cyburai. Still definitely a boy band, though. (X-Factor #63)
Spoiler: Optimus Prime dies. (X-Factor #64)
Cheer up, emu kid. (X-Factor #64)
Possibly the most awkward ending image ever. (X-Factor #64)
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- Seriously, Bobby’s powers would be super deadly.
LOLylol “Honour is VERY complicated as I understand it (from comics).”
gggggrrREAT EP / Thank u’s! 😀
And now we start the slide into the X-titles getting the most 90s they possibly can, I guess. Marvel started chasing the artists as the distributor wars started, cover mania (and speculator madness) took hold of the industry AGAIN and the Image era truly began.
Part of me regrets that, at the time, X-Factor was widely regarded by many old-school X-fans (including me) as a betrayal; I never read it because the residual anger over the invalidation of the Phoenix saga (not to mention the dissolution of J.M. DeMatties run on The Defenders) stung badly. I missed some good (and let’s be honest, NOT SO GOOD) comics then.
But it wouldn’t be until the Jim Lee X-Men that the path towards making some X-characters unrecognizable to me would occur.
I didn’t know you watched GF! I love that show! Did you hear about the new ducktales show that’s being made by some of the people from GF?
I watched the first episode, and it was pretty great.