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From: soren@reed.UUCP (Soren Petersen)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: X-Factor review (and spoiler)
Message-ID: <2127@reed.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 10-Nov-85 02:59:26 EST
Article-I.D.: reed.2127
Posted: Sun Nov 10 02:59:26 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 11-Nov-85 06:52:06 EST
References: <679@ihlts.UUCP> <172@isieng.UUCP>
Reply-To: soren@reed.UUCP (Soren Petersen)
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Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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Keywords: mutants, money, Marvel

In article <172@isieng.UUCP> laurie@isieng.UUCP (Laurie Sefton) writes:
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>The X-Factor stuff is *dreadful*! I cannot believe that they have managed
>to revert characterizations to early Kirby--the Beast hasn't spoken like
>that for years now.  I thought he had gotten his act together in between
>his mini-series (tales to astonish?), and his appearance in the Avengers
>a while back (a long while back).
>
>And why is Scott portrayed as such a flaming Bozo?  Are we back to the days
>of ("oh, I love Jean so much, but I don't know how to tell her") 
>{thoughts inside of ()} garbage.  Scott has been portrayed as indecisive
>before, but not *this* bad!! And he *knows* he is being cruel to Maddy-
>he may have been a wimp before, but cruelty was not one of his traits

Wait a minute.  How would *you* react if the one person you truly loved
but thought dead came back to life.  Yes Scott is no doubt aware he is
being cruel, but he is under one hell of a lot of stress.

I don't approve of a lot of the stuff that is going on in X-Factor, but
the portrayal of Scott's indecision seems quite well handled to me.
  
And while we are on the subject,  I am getting sick of all this dumping
on X-Factor.  I agree that it is stunningly mediocre at best, but that 
still makes it better than at least half of the Marvel line--as good as
Defenders was, and much better than current Avengers.  However, that is
not the point.  Were X-Factor #1 the greatest comic in history, the
net reaction would be just as negative.  Nobody wastes time putting down,
for instance, The Thing, although it is much worse than X-Factor--it
isn't worth the effort, and neither is X-Factor.


>I'm disgusted...

So am I.
			Have a nice day
				Soren Petersen