A couple months ago I decided to work my way through x-factor from the beginning, something I’d always itched to do but found a tad daunting. Anyways, first few issues were more or less forgettable but once the Simonsons took it over I really got sucked in. Something about the constant brooding melodrama played against absurd-yet-gritty (distinctly 80s ) and brutally rendered in the best way possible through Walt’s pencils...I’m rambling but point is I was hooked.
I read up to the point of inferno and decided to check out the X-terminators limited since I’d grown to like the kiddos, specifically Skids, Boom-Boom and rictor. I wasn’t really feeling it though, aside from a few fun moments the whole thing felt rushed (only 4 issues but still), Simonson’s writing and whoever was penciling (Bogdanove?) didn’t have the same
je ne sais quoi as the main series imo. I kinda fell out of my binge but I’m just recently coming back to it.
I was wondering what other readers who follow the xmen think about these books? I get the sense that the concept behind it (original team + they’re posing as an anti-mutant group for reasons?) isn’t particularly popular seeing as I don’t see them come up often in discussion and not many of the younger crop seem to have taken off aside from boom-boom and rictor (I read somewhere skids joined SHIELD, big wtf moment). I was shocked that iconic characters and storylines like Apocalypse/Archangel debuted here because they always seem to be adapted in wildly different contexts, though to be fair the actual context in the books is pretty much tangled in complications that a cartoon wouldn’t want to get into..
Anyways, sorry for the barrage of text, feel free to share your thoughts they’re much appreciated