X-Factor #7: Scientia Vincere Tenebras

[superboyprime]

"Jean-Paul is canonically anti-establishment and proud of his identity as a gay mutant, so coming out of AOXM would have very clear implications on his emotional state. He’s angry and traumatized and has always been an agitator who pushes against the establishment. Asks a lot of questions. Instigates. So tracking down missing mutants is a righteous and natural fit for him, now." - Leah Williams

Comments

[coldfury]

This is kind of highlighting the problem with the resurrections system of Krakoa, storytelling wise. If writers have this tool, they're going to use it. Which suddenly means that characters that used to be super tough adventurers who always scraped by the nick of the teeth just suddenly die all the time.

We already saw it with the main X-Men team biting it in space, but now we're seeing it play out over and over again in this book with multiple deaths as part of the ongoing story.

I like the fact that they found a way to mine old characters for new stories without increasingly ridiculous excuses... but by leaving the mechanism open like this they've really made their characters weaker by default.

[lucean]

By the way, have they established that Quicksilver is faster than Northstar is that my memory being faulty?

[fra080389]

Why the Morrigan was trying to hurt Daken specifically?

[themajesticmoose]

Another great issue of the book that's joined Marauders and SWORD as one of my favourites of the X-books. I loved the David and Tommy goodness in this issue and I hope we get to see more of this.

Loved that little moment with Lorna and Rachel too. And Northstar still settling into the role of team leader and getting used to being in charge has been good fun.

Also I am enjoying Daken and Aurora so far. It's nice to see Daken actually happy here

[zachbeacon]

While it's nice to finally see them acknowledge some of the X-Factor Investigations stuff, it's still weird that Jamie is here. He earned that retirement. Heck, most writers use him as nothing more than an expendable body to throw at a problem and the Five have made it so that that's true for every mutant.

(Has Layla been seen since HOX/POX?)

Also it seems like this story is implying that Theresa is possessed by the the Morrigan instead of someone who assumed the mantle of the Morrigan. I understand why a writer would do that if the end goal is to bring back 90s Siryn but that isn't what happened.

Speaking of weird writer decisions; I still think Northstar as team leader is a terrible idea.

[laughing_tree]

When did Havok and Siryn become friends? Were they on a team together?

[lieut_kettch]

Okay, how is Tommy able to get to Krakoa? Is he still a mutant even if his mom isn't anymore?