X-Factor (2020): The Big Sleep
How Leah Williams and David Baldeón’s X-Factor explores death and resurrection in the Dawn of X era.
How Leah Williams and David Baldeón’s X-Factor explores death and resurrection in the Dawn of X era.
This issue of X-Men utilizes all three of these concepts to varying degrees, while also giving us a fun adventure that the core title has been missing for a number of issues while it’s been focusing on building the world and mystique, no pun intended, of the X-Men’s new status quo.
If things were nefarious in X-Men before, they’re approaching downright evil and cultish by now When Cassandra Nova sent Sentinels to attack Genosha during Grant Morrison’s New X-Men (2002), she ended the onslaught with a total kill count of about fifteen million mutants – just because she knew it would break the heart of her … Read more
Mystique will do Anything for love! People will do anything for love. Love is the only reason that Mystique is even considering helping Charles Xavier and Magneto on missions to make a safe world for Mutants a reality, even if it means dying herself. With the abilities of The Five making rebirth a possibility for … Read more
Jonathan Hickman has a particular brand of storytelling in which he has to build the world that he’s operating in before things really start to hit their stride. That’s what he’s been doing with X-Men thus far.