Comic of the Week 3

Again, my comics were delivered late, so this weekI decided to put off this post for a few days and give them chance to arrive, which two of them did. So to avoid getting too furious I'm just going to choose a week old comic that I really enjoyed but came too later for me to have last week, X-Factor #226:

This is my definately my current favourite comic book series, and arguably of all time given its consistency compared to other series excellent parts but then terrible parts. So I always enjoy every issue and am sure I will continue to do so, unless Peter David does something to completely change the series, which I highly doubt he wil, so it should be obvious that I really enjoyed this issue as well. I could of chosen almost any issue from this series for comic of the week, so why this one? Well it's partly due to the story arc this issue falls into. The great thing about this story arc is it shows off the basics of the X-Factor team, an investigation team that deals with mutant cases, and it completely unpredictable; the appearance of Hangman in this issue was a surprising, but welcome, twist. As well as the story arc, this issue also brilliantrly shows of David's amazing manipulation of the characters and the relationships within the team. Each character was covered effectively, luckily for me with extra consideration given to Shatterstar and Layla over their mysterious intamacy, as these two are my favourite characters. I even found myself enjoying the interactions with Guido and Rahne, who although I do like, don't reach me as much as the others do, again showing David's amazing ability. Like I've mentioned before in this blog, as well, this issue left me completely satisfied, due it covering a suitable amount of story and a lot of character exploration, but also almost desperate to read the next issue and find out who Bloodbath is. Plus with the small teaser given by Marvel for next #227, 'a member of X-Factor dies', not reading on is not an option.