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X-Factor by Peter David Omnibus
X-Factor By Peter David Omnibus Vol. 4
Kindle Edition
Published July 23, 2025
About the author
Peter David
3,707 books1,391 followersPeter Allen David (aka David Peters), often abbreviated PAD, was an American writer of comic books, novels, television, films, and video games. His notable comic book work includes an award-winning 12-year run on The Incredible Hulk, as well as runs on Aquaman, Young Justice, SpyBoy, Supergirl, Fallen Angel, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099, Captain Marvel, and X-Factor.
His Star Trek work included comic books and novels such as the New Frontier book series. His other novels included film adaptations, media tie-ins, and original works, such as the Apropos of Nothing and Knight Life series. His television work includes series such as Babylon 5, Young Justice, Ben 10: Alien Force and Nickelodeon's Space Cases, which he co-created with Bill Mumy.
David often jokingly described his occupation as "Writer of Stuff", and he was noted for his prolific writing, characterized by its mingling of real-world issues with humor and references to popular culture, as well as elements of metafiction and self-reference.
David earned multiple awards for his work, including a 1992 Eisner Award, a 1993 Wizard Fan Award, a 1996 Haxtur Award, a 2007 Julie Award, and a 2011 GLAAD Media Award.
His Star Trek work included comic books and novels such as the New Frontier book series. His other novels included film adaptations, media tie-ins, and original works, such as the Apropos of Nothing and Knight Life series. His television work includes series such as Babylon 5, Young Justice, Ben 10: Alien Force and Nickelodeon's Space Cases, which he co-created with Bill Mumy.
David often jokingly described his occupation as "Writer of Stuff", and he was noted for his prolific writing, characterized by its mingling of real-world issues with humor and references to popular culture, as well as elements of metafiction and self-reference.
David earned multiple awards for his work, including a 1992 Eisner Award, a 1993 Wizard Fan Award, a 1996 Haxtur Award, a 2007 Julie Award, and a 2011 GLAAD Media Award.
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October 25, 2025
Peter David was a wonderful writer and he will be dearly missed. I loved the beans out of this collection.
October 7, 2025
This is a volume in three parts.
The first part is the conclusion of PAD's X-Factor Investigations comic, which ran through V2 and V3. It's really excellent because PAD has given so much depth to these characters over the course of the years. And, it's the single-character issues that shine. (The big demon-fight arc is actually the least of things.) It's great to see so many of these characters come to strong conclusions, and just kind of sad that a lot of the development of characters like Guido, Siryn, Layla, Rahne, and Madrox has since been largely ignored.
The second part is the corporate X-Factor. It was clearly being set up in the late days of XFI, but it's just never quite as good. But, PAD said his goal in the X-Factor books was to bring in characters that no body cared about and make you care about them and he was getting there! Just with only 20 issues, we never got to see the full development. I also didn't love the sudden swerve to tie-in to Spider-Man 2099.
Finally, we get two flashback issues to the original government X-Factor that were published in the entirely mediocre X-Men Legends comic. And the X-Factor issues are mediocre too, in part I suspect because a retro comic like Legends worked against the character arcs of X-Factor. (Looking back I see that I thought that the X-Factor issues were good in the context of Legends, but they're clearly mediocre in the context of PAD's other X-Factor writing.) I also didn't love the massive, anachronistic spoiling of a major character point about Lorna that isn't revealed until much later, so she couldn't know about it here.
Overall, this comic is a must buy, but mostly for the end of X-Factor Investigations. (I'm nonetheless thrilled that the rest is here.)
The first part is the conclusion of PAD's X-Factor Investigations comic, which ran through V2 and V3. It's really excellent because PAD has given so much depth to these characters over the course of the years. And, it's the single-character issues that shine. (The big demon-fight arc is actually the least of things.) It's great to see so many of these characters come to strong conclusions, and just kind of sad that a lot of the development of characters like Guido, Siryn, Layla, Rahne, and Madrox has since been largely ignored.
The second part is the corporate X-Factor. It was clearly being set up in the late days of XFI, but it's just never quite as good. But, PAD said his goal in the X-Factor books was to bring in characters that no body cared about and make you care about them and he was getting there! Just with only 20 issues, we never got to see the full development. I also didn't love the sudden swerve to tie-in to Spider-Man 2099.
Finally, we get two flashback issues to the original government X-Factor that were published in the entirely mediocre X-Men Legends comic. And the X-Factor issues are mediocre too, in part I suspect because a retro comic like Legends worked against the character arcs of X-Factor. (Looking back I see that I thought that the X-Factor issues were good in the context of Legends, but they're clearly mediocre in the context of PAD's other X-Factor writing.) I also didn't love the massive, anachronistic spoiling of a major character point about Lorna that isn't revealed until much later, so she couldn't know about it here.
Overall, this comic is a must buy, but mostly for the end of X-Factor Investigations. (I'm nonetheless thrilled that the rest is here.)
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