Review: X-factor #262

X-factor #262

This issue was a quaint ending to the arc, and the title I’ve been following since it first began. Yup, this is one of the few titles I actually started from its first release and followed all through to the ending.

RECAP

This installment of the arc kicks of with Layla, living in the Madrox family old home, discovering that she’s pregnant, two years too soon, ‘cause, you know, she’s Layla Miller and she’s supposed to know stuff, future stuff.

Shortly after she’s visited by weird ghostly future Tryp who’s having an issue with another version of himself. Long story short, Tryp has mysterious issues with Layla that’s connected to this other him as well and he calls his goons, who happen to be law men, to evict her from the house, where nobody knows she’s keeping demonic Madrox in the basement.

Tryp goes poof and Layla takes Madrox’s food  to him in the basement. He’s about to attack her when she reveals to him that she’s pregnant, understanding this he retreats, before he could let himself hurt her, to pray.

The coppers soon turn up at the house and one of them in a suit and equipped to deal with both her and her demonic husband. Soon enough we see who Jamie was praying to as the new God powered Siryn (now going by “Morrigan”) answers his prayer and turns him back to his old self in time for him and her to rescue his wife.

Later on around the kitchen table when Siryn asks about the future of X-factor he says, “We have a child to raise. A farm to get back up and running. And a world to leave other people to save. Were done.” and if that wasn’t enough he said it again “We’re done.”

WHAT I LIKED?

It wasn’t grand ending and some might have found it a little cheeseball but I enjoyed it. This issue, as have been the others, was a nice episodic short adventure that just answered the question “where are they now?”. I was pleased with the storytelling and was glad to see Siryn - albeit changed- back on panel again. X-factor has produced it’s fair share of gods (Syryn, Darwin, Wolf-boy), too bad they didn't stick around long after, and I like to see them on panel.

I’ve always loved the relationship between Layla and Jamie and I’m glad they get to take a break from heroics and take a next step in their lives together. Gonna miss them though. I think Layla being preggers is the start of the next wave of second gen mutants because I can’t think of any other mutant who’s had children since M-Day (not sure Rahne counts because her son was part God) even though this is the fourth x-factor pregnancy (counting Monet whose body rejected the dupe child lol).

WHAT DIDN’T I LIKE ?

Yeah well the issue felt kinda simple, but it’s the end of the series, a wrapping up, and apart from that it was good. I’m satisfied.

I give it a 7.5