#xfactor59

[gaknar]

Holy shit how awkward is this. Warren, you just spent the last week in a hallucinogenic stupor terrorizing the people of New York, and then you randomly show up on the balcony of this woman and start knocking on her window?? And he gets a date out of it! I can’t believe this shit worked. I’m with grandma. Knock that stalker out with your broom and push him off the fire escape. In reality though, if a superhero ever actually showed up at my house I would probably react just like this kid.

“Holy shit I can’t believe Speedball came to my house and asked to use the bathroom.” That would be me. And honestly that goes for cosplayers pretending to be the real thing too. I can’t tell the difference. (X-Factor #59 – Oct 1990)

[gaknar]

Well I guess Scott and Jean are getting back together. God damn it Jean. You’re just going to go back to dating him after ALMOST gaining an independent personality??? You spend two seconds having a nervous breakdown after meeting your daughter from another dimension and now we’re just going to pretend Scott didn’t marry another woman and father her child and then left her the second he heard you were available again and then proposed to you a week after she was killed mostly due to his bad decisions? I’ve never actually read the comics where she proposes to him, or where they get married. I hope . . . I hope I can get passed those ones. But I can kind of see myself ending this blog and selling my collection so I don’t have to read that shit. (X-Factor #59 – Oct 1990)

[gaknar]

After a single awkward date with Officer Jones, Warren Worthington is back, baby! I guess all that psychological anguish he was going through wasn’t because Apocalypse tortured and mutilated him. He just needed to do some myrtling! This is like that episode of Star Trek where Spock almost dies from blue balls. Anyway, this is the last issue of X-Factor before X-Tinction Agenda, which, curiously, is called The X-Termination Agenda here. It feels like it’s taken me forever to get here, the last big crossover of Claremont’s run, but my body is ready. (X-Factor #59 – Oct 1990)

[gaknar]

Ok, well, this looks pretty bad. Trish works with her ex-husband, and he kind of gives her some preferential treatment, to which she responds with smooches. Also, I think she’s promising to send him some nudes while on travel. Not exactly appropriate behavior going on here in a professional environment. And this isn’t just Hank eavesdropping at the wrong time and observing things out of context. This is my honest professional opinion as a comic book psychologist. (X-Factor #59 – Oct 1990)

[gaknar]

Pretty good bit here where Warren skips these two reporters of the surface of the harbor like they’re some rocks he picked up and threw into the creek while he was moping around the woods being depressed. I feel kind of sorry for the woman though. She wasn’t asking any intrusive questions. She falls out of the trolley and is just holding on for dear life when Warren flings her into the water because of the stupid shit her colleague was saying. (X-Factor #59 – Oct 1990)

[gaknar]

Ok I know this issue takes place after Days of Future Present because they talk about their battle with Ahab, but of course Bobby and Warren are just fine in this issue despite receiving mortal wounds while fighting Ahab’s minions. And ugh, this looks like it’s going to be another one of those relationship issues of X-Factor. Look, I’m not anti-relationship. I just think that it’s important to have an identity that isn’t completely dependent on another person. Like, can you not function at your job when you are single? It might be time to seek some counseling and figure out why that is. Hank. (X-Factor #59 – Oct 1990)