![]() And if you do, for god’s sake stop.) And yet, David’s work paved the way for everything from Peter Milligan and Mike Allred’s fantastically subversive X-Force/X-Statix series to Jonathan Hickman’s HoX/PoX. X-Statix, the media-ready successor to David’s X-Factorīy rights, this should be the least impactful X-Book since The X-Terminators (no one remembers that book. In fact, David would quit the series two times in three decades with one of them being over event books. These collected issues also existed near the very height of the speculator boom, and yet it doesn’t fall in line much with the Scott Lobdell, Fabian Nicieza, and Ann Nocenti money train. ![]() Yet X-Factor adds nothing to the Dark Era or its complexities. It debuted the same year as Deadpool and Weapon-X and within months of Lobo, Deathstroke the Terminator, and Shade the Changing Man getting solo titles. This omnibus is focused right at the 90s era mutant craze while being published right alongside the books it was subtly commenting on. Where Claremont and Davis’ Excalibur is something of a superhero and fantasy farce, David’s X-Force is a satire of the X-Books themselves. ![]() ![]() ![]() Peter David’s work on X-Force is one of those rare books where it’s easier to explain the plot than it is why the book exists in the first place. ![]()
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