#Maria Callasantos

[why-i-love-comics]

X-Factor #1 - "Red Carpet" (2024)

written by Mark Russell art by Bob Quinn & Jesus Aburtov

[wwprice1]

The new X-Factor lineup (at least to start)! Cover by Greg Land (Bob Quinn will do the interior art).

[nightjarwings]

all the dotty-eyed angels (and feral) from x-factor (2024)

[comicwaren]

From Uncanny Spider-Man #004, “Slice and Dice”

Art by Lee Garbett and Matt Milla

Written by Si Spurrier

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Feral by Stephen Baskerville

[illyanarasputinfan]

X-Factor #1 (2024) Marvel Comics

It was fun. I laughed. I’ll definitely continue reading it. The “completely interchangeable”team concept is giving me “Exiles” vibes.

“Granny Smite” is the world’s oldest mutant. Her immortality power did not activate until she was already an elderly woman. She attempts to die on each mission. I already love her.

They did Feral DIRTY! Rest in peace, Maria.

[swordofazrael1992]

can you tell i’m hyperfixated on the 90s xforce team

[heckcareoxytwit]

The new current X-Factor is the unlucky superhero team like the redshirt X-Statix. Warren Worthington's new team of X-Factor (consisting of Warren Worthington III, Feral, Rusty Collins, and the two newer mutants, Xyber and Cameo) are the mutant celebrities when they go out on their dangerous mission to stop the Russian Mutant Mercenaries in the mutant arms race. The X-Factor have a disaster at both the Red Carpet and at their first mission. On the meeting at the Red Carpet, the new X-Factor are met with jeers and pelted rotten eggs from both humans and mutants. On their first mission, they go to Kunashir Island at Russia where they fight Darkstar and the mercenary mutants. The first mission ended with a disaster when Cameo and Darkstar's mercenaries accidentally blew up the power plant, causing the deaths and injuries of many mutants. Rusty, Feral and Cameo are killed while Warren was badly injured.

Later on, the newer X-Factor team are on the Red Carpet again with its new members consisting of Havok, Frenzy, Pyro, Cecilia Reyes and Granny Smite the oldest new mutant. Poor Xyber the newest and youngest mutant survivor is traumatized from the first mission yet he's forced to go on another potential dangerous mission with the rest of his substitute team.

X-Factor v5 #1, 2024

[blisterthigh]

x-force (and kitty) at illyana's funeral (uncanny x-men #304)

[do-you-ship-this-comic-ship]

propaganda:

Marrow asked Feral to leave Krakoa, essentially mutant paradise, with her and Feral has said she doesn't care about anyone else, just Marrow. Also the second to last issue of their xmen infinity comic arc's ending made it really look like they were about to kiss and the writer has replied to people asking about them kissing, as well as the artist liking fanart of them and other creators bringing them up in couple related questions in articles. They fight all the time but they'll always drop everything for each other.

[why-i-love-comics]

X-Factor #1 - "Red Carpet" (2024)

written by Mark Russell art by Bob Quinn & Jesus Aburtov

[ndscottsummers]

X-Force v1 #26

[lesbianliutana]

x-women appreciation week day 3: favorite relationship(s): romance

in a better timeline they kissed at the end of their x-men unlimited infinity comic arc

[comicwaren]

From Uncanny Spider-Man #005, “Fade to Blue”

Art by Lee Garbett, Simone Buonfantino and Matt Milla

Written by Si Spurrier

[summerstrash]

having complex feelings about the x-factor 2024 announcement.

pros:

Pyro and Frenzy are there. Be Gay Do Crimes Twink + The Giant Woman I Always Want To See = Good Shit.

The guy who's writing this book is well-known for his one-shot rewriting the Hanna-Barbera character Snagglepuss as a mid-century homosexual playwright. Considering that Pyro is here, this is promising.

Alex is no longer wearing the classic costume, which reduces the chances of him being forced into the Goblin Gown significantly, forcing his arc to rely less on his sexual objectification.

The solicit seems to imply that social media will act as either a framing device or a plot point, which I like the sound of.

Alex and Frenzy serving on a team together rockets her to the #1 spot on the list of Potential Alex Summers Sex Mistakes, since she's a slightly bitter Scott ex with BDSM inclinations.

My longtime Twitter mutual Gail Simone called it a gem of the line, and I'm inclined to trust her judgment on many things.

The writer specifically namedrops Alex and Frenzy as characters he's excited to write, which implies they'll see at least some focus.

The artist is Bob Quinn, a guy I quite like and who sent me free art once for my birthday when Knights of X was delayed.

As someone who hasn't read much X-Factor from the 90s due to my ongoing feud with a particular writer from that era (iykyk), I'm kind of looking forward to seeing what X-Factor as a government team is like, as opposed to X-Factor as an investigating body.

cons:

Alex in a leadership role is never a good sign. Bad things happen to Alex when he leads.

Not a huge fan of the fact that the current known roster includes three white guys and two WOC, with one of the WOC also being a visible mutant who has fur instead of human skin, and the other being a medium-to-dark-skinned black woman famous for being buff and angry, and the three white guys are all blondes, ranging from "dumpster twink" to "hunk"

Alex working for the U.S. government feels like a microagression against me personally, as I've been very vocal about thinking that Alex needs to finally come to terms with the fact that clinging to mainstream institutions and dominant social groups will only ever hurt him, and I was hoping the Hellions or Limbo could be that for him in the Krakoan Era

The marketing seems to imply a different tone and genre from the domestic/workplace horror-comedies Alex has been part of for the last five years, and I don't know how I feel about that yet.

Greg Land is doing the covers, and I hate that for me.

"Who will die?" Of the characters we have announced so far, Alex is the most expendable. He's one of three blond white guys, and while Warren seems to be taking center stage as the Face Of The Team, and St.John's movie counterpart is returning to theaters this summer in Deadpool & Wolverine, so I doubt they'd kill him off in comics at the moment, Alex feels kind of superfluous as a co-leader, and he also is just...less loved, I think.

"Who will fall in love?" Again, worried for Alex because one of his, like, three recurring stories is "gets picked up by the scruff of his neck by a girl way out of his league so she can use him to self-actualize while playing at transgressive forms of heterosexuality." We don't really have similar core recurring storylines for other announced characters.

"Who will be the first to sell out?" Honestly I feel like St.John might be the answer to this question. He's a novelist. Novelists have egos. He's worked for the U.S. government before, under Mystique. And I guess this kind of makes me sad.

The fact that the whole cast hasn't been announced yet fills me with fear that Lorna will be in this, mostly because a fair chunk of FTA seems to be focused on catering to nostalgia on some level, and Alex/Lorna is very 90s. And frankly Dr. Dane should be doing better for herself than the man that left her at the altar for a gay man's girlfriend.

So yeah, I have complex emotions about all of this and will be watching with a fair amount of suspicion as we draw closer to the release date.

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