X-POSITION: Peter David Preps "All-New X-Factor" Finale and "2099" Return

[CBR News]

Fan-favorite writer Peter David takes time to answer your questions about his decade-long run as X-Factor's boss across several incarnations.


Full article here.

[Hariel0079]

2099, intriguing.

[IdaqiBeauty]

This is sad. I just realized that it's our last x-position ever with PAD.

[just another user]

This is sad. I just realized that it's our last x-position ever with PAD.

This is sad. I just realised Madrox was 10 years ago.

[Purplevit]

Thanks for answering. I am excited to see Gambit and X-Factor in Spider-Man 2099.
I hope PAD will get a new X-project asap.

[MindTricked]

I've really enjoyed this run of X-Factor, more-so than previous runs if I was to be honest. I especially enjoyed the interactions Polaris had with both Quicksilver and Gambit (great to see him out of Rogue's shadow), and those laugh-out-loud moments caused by Danger will be missed.

[bkart1978]

I think PAD has been stuck with one of the longest lists of B and C-list artists since the Madrox-led X-Factor launched. And that's not a slight to those artists - Valentine De Landro did some of my favorite Marvel work during his X-Factor stint (the Layla Miller special in particular was gorgeous), it was the first place I saw Emanuela Lupacchino, and Carmine Di Giandomenico has even grown on me enormously since All New launched, due largely to his being good fit for the tone of the book. (They also saddled PAD with Larry Stroman for two issues back in the day, but that's best forgotten). Will Sliney has shot up my personal list since Spider-Man 2099 came out too. But PAD hasn't had a true A-list artist even for a few issues to guarantee a few thousand bonus sales on name/reputation alone. Like I said, Di Giandomenico is actually a wonderful fit for X-Factor, but he's gotta be a hard sell to folks just grabbing random books off a shelf and deciding what to buy, regardless of whether it's an event book, a character piece, or anything else.

I would've loved at least another 20-30 issues with the team as it stands, but I guess 50 issues is a tough milestone for any new book these days (the last 3 X-Force titles combined are only just hitting that number) so I guess I'll just have to be grateful for the time we had with this entertaining gang of mutants, and hope PAD is back at the helm of a new X-Factor before too long.

[salarta]

This X-Position was really good. If this were an X-Position for anything other than the end of ANXF, then I would think otherwise, but I think it's good for the circumstances.

First thing I want to say is that Lorna's very prominent in most of the preview material, which I was pleasantly surprised by. Everything I see here looks good and exciting, which makes me disappointed we only have a few issues left.

Several of Peter David's responses come across pessimistic, but I think the pessimism is perfectly understandable, and as such I fully empathize with the responses he gave to certain questions (even though I disagree with some of them). Even so, I wish he'd shared more about ideas he had for the team. He may plot in six month increments, but I know he had to have a lot of ideas on what could potentially get included, e.g. stuff like revealing Lorna's middle name as Sally. Perhaps he's keeping that to himself so it doesn't mess up what any future writers write, or because he might use it later.

I think in his response about Lorna and Pietro's relationship, he's somewhat getting across that no matter what, he can still write something meaningful at least for that moment, even if some other executive, editor or writer later decides to change the whole situation.

I'm honestly a lot more interested in what Peter David said about characters appearing in Spider-Man 2099. I think we all expected Georgia, Snow and Serval would wind up over there, but Peter David's answer is open-ended enough to sound like members of the team may pop up over there from time to time too.

I can't think of anything else to say right now, so I'll leave it at that.

[Torch_7]

I don't even know what to say. ANXF was a really fresh series, entertaining and fun, but most of all, it brought change. I loved how Pietro was proud of being a member of X-Factor, so proud he was offended by Havok's douchy "come to the A-Team" talk. I loved the dynamics between him and Lorna, making their relationship as siblings more warn and united, and the dynamics between Danger and Warlock, trying to be more "human", for lack of a better term, but it was fun and awkward, and meaningful to see Warlock get weird at Danger's ideas.

This series is genuinely good, better than a lot and I mean a lot of Marvel books. There's so few books at Marvel that are so character driven, everything is from the next big event to the next big event, with tie-ins and prologues and any other sh*t for the sake of making sales than writing a good story. AvX sucked, Infinity was average, Original Sin was bad and Axis is sucking balls hard with the idea that evil is something you can't change. Spider-Verse sucks too, btw.

It's really sad to see that good books like this one don't get much support but crappy events do. Mad props to PAD, he's a real writer among many crappy ones.