Summary X-Factor 247 & 248
X-Factor 247 - Layla and Jamie are in Vegas, having their honeymoon (and implied menage a Madrox) interrupted by a very unconvincing ghost of General Lee killing Civil War reenactors and Lincoln impersonators. While CW reenactors are some of the most annoying people on earth (25 years experience with reenacting here) there's no way I can believe that's Robert E. Lee. Nathan Bedford Forrest or Jeb Stuart yes, but Lee had too much class. Anyway, whoever it was warns that mutants are about to cause the zombie apocalypse by coming back to life too often. Why does everybody always have to blame the mutants? Other superheroes do it too. Just ask Marv-El the next time he's breathing.
X-Factor 248 - Pip is in trouble. He's being chased by deathly apparitions and goes to hide in a convenient opening, which leads him from the land of demonic nightmares to the land of -- Monet's head. He wakes up inside Monet's body and handles that fairly well, although when he tries to peek at her body it slams him into a wall. He goes to see what's happening with his rightful body, which has been found by Lorna, Longshot, Ric, and Star. The foursome can't figure out why a body with a hole through the forehead is still breathing, and decide to get Monet to do a telepathic scan.
Pip walks in wearing Monet's body and yelling for someone to find the bullet. Everyone except Star finds this incredibly funny, who points out this it's a violation of Monet. Pip explains that in his species his brain is really in his chest conjoined with his heart, and anyone who finds that funny better belong to a species like his own that doesn't have wars.
Ric and Star start whispering and grinning at this point.
Longshot retrieves the bullet. Pip tries to use it to teleport to it's sender, but he's not in his proper body. He can't return to it until his body heals. Longshot and Star basicly do the same thing by combining the powers because Star has a "relationship" with Longshot. Ric grumbles without any heat that Star seems to have a "relationship" with everyone in the room. "Not me," Lorna points out, which starts Star flirting.
Lorna points out that it's undoubtedly a trap set by extremely nasty people, and they should be very careful. They teleport to a wooded area.
Meanwhile, Layla and Jamie are back, and so engrossed in negotiated the finer points of newly permanent-coupledom that they don't notice their taxi driver is demonically possessed. They end up at the NY Botanical Garden, where they are told all of X-Factor will fall at once.
Layla expands her force field to destroy the car. Jamie interrogates the driver, who says he was sent by "the Warders", demons who guard those who set up the ZA. They're mad at X-Factor for killing one of their brethren in Kansas, so they're making an example out of them.
And then -- you know what's coming -- all Hell breaks loose.
247 was a third-rate story idea turned into an okay story. 248 was a good story, but the art was not that good.
X-Factor 248 - Pip is in trouble. He's being chased by deathly apparitions and goes to hide in a convenient opening, which leads him from the land of demonic nightmares to the land of -- Monet's head. He wakes up inside Monet's body and handles that fairly well, although when he tries to peek at her body it slams him into a wall. He goes to see what's happening with his rightful body, which has been found by Lorna, Longshot, Ric, and Star. The foursome can't figure out why a body with a hole through the forehead is still breathing, and decide to get Monet to do a telepathic scan.
Pip walks in wearing Monet's body and yelling for someone to find the bullet. Everyone except Star finds this incredibly funny, who points out this it's a violation of Monet. Pip explains that in his species his brain is really in his chest conjoined with his heart, and anyone who finds that funny better belong to a species like his own that doesn't have wars.
Ric and Star start whispering and grinning at this point.
Longshot retrieves the bullet. Pip tries to use it to teleport to it's sender, but he's not in his proper body. He can't return to it until his body heals. Longshot and Star basicly do the same thing by combining the powers because Star has a "relationship" with Longshot. Ric grumbles without any heat that Star seems to have a "relationship" with everyone in the room. "Not me," Lorna points out, which starts Star flirting.
Lorna points out that it's undoubtedly a trap set by extremely nasty people, and they should be very careful. They teleport to a wooded area.
Meanwhile, Layla and Jamie are back, and so engrossed in negotiated the finer points of newly permanent-coupledom that they don't notice their taxi driver is demonically possessed. They end up at the NY Botanical Garden, where they are told all of X-Factor will fall at once.
Layla expands her force field to destroy the car. Jamie interrogates the driver, who says he was sent by "the Warders", demons who guard those who set up the ZA. They're mad at X-Factor for killing one of their brethren in Kansas, so they're making an example out of them.
And then -- you know what's coming -- all Hell breaks loose.
247 was a third-rate story idea turned into an okay story. 248 was a good story, but the art was not that good.