Yeah, there's been ZERO sign of the relationship Rictor, Tabitha, Rusty, Skids, Artie, Leech and Wiz Kid used to have with the 05 and it sucks because it was one of my favorite parts of X-Men history. X-Factor Bobby is a huge part of the reason I'm such a Bobby fan in the first place, he was characterized as much more mature, intelligent and proactive there, than he has been at pretty much any other time....but the second X-Factor re-merged with the X-Men, it was like that characterization largely disappeared.
But also, Rusty's one of the most prominent mutant deaths that HASN'T been undone via resurrection (on panel at least) in the current era, and I would kill for a scene where they finally bring him back, and they use it to have a mini-reunion of the 05 and the X-Terminator kids, and just pay homage to how close they used to all be.
I might have to go through and take scans of some of my favorite scenes with the X-Terminator kids, X-Factor and also with baby Nathan, maybe I'll put them in the Bobby thread or start an old school X-Factor appreciation thread? Idk. But for the hell of it, have some scans of one of my favorite issues. A mutant named Infectia, who had the power to alter molecular arrangements, and usually used a kiss as her mechanism for changing men into monstrous creatures under her control....well, she targeted Bobby and was trying to seduce him, in order to use her power on him and get him under her control....and the kids, with Ship's help, literally spent the whole issue cock-blocking him to try and protect him from her, because all they had as proof she was bad was Hank's hunch.
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