Bought/Thought for November 23, 2011 - TURKEY DAY Edition

[JewishHobbit]

I guess it depends on individual tastes. I happen to love a lot of what David's touching on. The straight superhero story with the FF served as a return to the larger Marvel universe for X-Factor to me, and then David recast them as the team that deals with the weird, fringe elements--things that hover near the mainstream but haven't traditionally taken hold as major parts of it. Fantasy, mythology, cosmic, and horror, all organically intertwined with or emerging from personal conflicts between the characters, who very much have that family dynamic that the main X-teams lacked for the past few years (until WatXM). It's pretty much pitch-perfect for my tastes.

Yeah, I can see that. I think my main problems are:

1) I'm not interested in Marvel's supernatural or asgardian angle.
2) The team feels too large and the characters I'm most interested in aren't getting as much facetime as I'd like.
3) I can't stand David's depiction of Wolfesbane for some reason and she's been the main focus for a while now. I liked her in the Madrox mini but that's about where it ended.

 

[JewishHobbit]

I guess it depends on individual tastes. I happen to love a lot of what David's touching on. The straight superhero story with the FF served as a return to the larger Marvel universe for X-Factor to me, and then David recast them as the team that deals with the weird, fringe elements--things that hover near the mainstream but haven't traditionally taken hold as major parts of it. Fantasy, mythology, cosmic, and horror, all organically intertwined with or emerging from personal conflicts between the characters, who very much have that family dynamic that the main X-teams lacked for the past few years (until WatXM). It's pretty much pitch-perfect for my tastes.

Yeah, I can see that. I think my main problems are:

1) I'm not interested in Marvel's supernatural or asgardian angle.
2) The team feels too large and the characters I'm most interested in aren't getting as much facetime as I'd like.
3) I can't stand David's depiction of Wolfesbane for some reason and she's been the main focus for a while now. I liked her in the Madrox mini but that's about where it ended.
4) Layla is a big aspect of the book but I feel her character took a BIG hit with the revelation of how she "knows stuff." I am suddenly 90% uninterested in her character when she was one of my favorites for the first half of the series.