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X-Factor (2020) (Single Issues)
X-Factor #3
DROWNING IN THE STREAM! Every streamer in the Mojoverse is desperate to get a little of the X-magic on their channel, but all X-Factor wants to do is figure out who murdered a Krakoan citizen.
28 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 9, 2020
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Leah Williams
242 books208 followersLeah Williams is an American writer originally from Oxford, Mississippi. She has written comics for Marvel, BOOM! Studios, Vault Comics, and is working on more. Her debut novel was a YA Fantasy book titled The Alchemy of Being Fourteen and she is currently writing its sequel, The Divinity of Hitting Fifteen. Leah has nonfiction articles and essays published in The Atlantic, Oprah Magazine, and Salon.
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September 12, 2020
Gli orrori del Mojoverso non finiscono mai: Spirale mostra il video della morte della ballerina mutante ai nostri, e scopriamo che per qualche motivo era andata lì di sua spontanea volontà, che anche il morire era stato una sua scelta, per "dare al pubblico ciò che il pubblico vuole".
Cosa prevede quindi il programma di streaming dopo la morte? Ma l'autopsia, con un canale dedicato al commento.
Distopia disgustosamente realistica.
In più abbiamo uno Shatterstar re degli stream, tallonato da un esercito di utenti premium e impossibilitato a parlare o anche solo ad agire, per qualche motivo che non conosciamo.
Non può andarsene, ma scopriamo che in qualche modo è stato lui a chiamare X-Factor (e ogni tanto spedisce nell'etere messaggi disperati. Cosa ha Mojo per trattenerlo lì?)
Questa storia mi sta piacendo, pur essendo nel Mojoverso.
Cosa prevede quindi il programma di streaming dopo la morte? Ma l'autopsia, con un canale dedicato al commento.
Distopia disgustosamente realistica.
In più abbiamo uno Shatterstar re degli stream, tallonato da un esercito di utenti premium e impossibilitato a parlare o anche solo ad agire, per qualche motivo che non conosciamo.
Non può andarsene, ma scopriamo che in qualche modo è stato lui a chiamare X-Factor (e ogni tanto spedisce nell'etere messaggi disperati. Cosa ha Mojo per trattenerlo lì?)
Questa storia mi sta piacendo, pur essendo nel Mojoverso.
September 12, 2020
So brilliant and so meta. Leah Williams is *chef's kiss*
Think of how addicted we are today to entertainment, to social media, to virtual engagements and attention, to the lure of internet points and to fame, that we barely stop to consider the moral and mental costs of our constant streaming and distraction. Mojoverse as described by Williams in this issue could easily be our dystopian future mere years from now. I mean fuck, we're partly living it already.
Think of how addicted we are today to entertainment, to social media, to virtual engagements and attention, to the lure of internet points and to fame, that we barely stop to consider the moral and mental costs of our constant streaming and distraction. Mojoverse as described by Williams in this issue could easily be our dystopian future mere years from now. I mean fuck, we're partly living it already.
September 18, 2020
Man this series is not for me. The whole Mojoverse stream channels, the silly segues between ads, ugh. This book was a chore to get through. The story of the dead mutant is moving a snails pace. It really feels like it isn’t moving at all. Then we get three full info pages of text to read after a boring comic. 🤦🏾♂️
October 1, 2020
While not as strong as X-Factor Issue 2 this was still a solid end to Mojo World.
As I said previous, I'm not a fan of Mojo world, it's usually over the top and not very good. This issue was just decent. There's some great moments, especially with Draken and the last couple of pages. On a sad note, but also pretty funny at the very last epilogue page. Overall X-Factor has been good, but not amazing. Hoping the 2nd arc catches on and works well.
As I said previous, I'm not a fan of Mojo world, it's usually over the top and not very good. This issue was just decent. There's some great moments, especially with Draken and the last couple of pages. On a sad note, but also pretty funny at the very last epilogue page. Overall X-Factor has been good, but not amazing. Hoping the 2nd arc catches on and works well.
September 10, 2020
I’ll be done with this toilet of a series after the next issue, since it’s only one part of the whole X of Swords event that suckered me into reading X-Factor in the first place. X-Factor is not just bad, it’s actually hard to find things to enjoy about it. I always find it exceptionally lazy when people take modern day things like livestreaming add one thing to it (like killing people on a livestream) and present it like it’s a unique scenario. But here I am...only issue 3 and instead of a murder mystery, I’m stuck in your knock-off Youtube-killer garbageverse with characters who are thus far empty vessels for jokes aimed at teens. Whoopee.
September 9, 2020
I feel good about the 4-star rating, but I am uncertain how I feel about this storyline. The new X-Factor crew is still in the Mojoverse, as they were last issue. Now we have a little more plot, as we learn the identity of the girl whose bloody ballet shoes were delivered to the team's front door. We also learned how and why she died, and we got a broader taste of what the channels streaming from the Mojoverse are currently like.
Bright side? Shatterstar is in this issue. He is somewhere in my top 10 of favorite mutants, and Rachel is already my all-time fave and here as a permanent team member. So this issue was probably going to get 3 stars no matter what, just for the representation. (Should also be noted that Shatterstar is yet another queer character, following Northstar, Prodigy, and Daken; Shatterstar's previous personality was --arguably-- asexual, and his more recent personality is bisexual, though with true romantic love directed only at Rictor).
Adam-X is mentioned, though he does not actually appear. I get the feeling writers are chomping at the bit to finally resolve the question of whether he is a Summers brother, so having him interact with Rachel in another dimension might be the best way of finally getting to the bottom of this. Only fans who lived through the 90s can appreciate how agonizing the writing has been on this question, with whole decades going by where Adam makes no appearance whatsoever.
The nomenclature used in the Mojoverse is what I find most off-putting. All this talk of "bumps" and "streams." It's all about internet livestreaming. It all feels so unnecessarily Generation Z. And these same Generation Z readers might not understand that Spiral --displaying a different personality than she had in the 90s-- was accompanied by a dozen clones of Rachel Summers. These clones were dancing like Rockettes (Another reference Generation Z might not get), wearing Rachel's classic hound costume, with that long single braid she had when she was a teenager in Days of Future Past. New young fans might not recognize Rachel's old styling, which was never commented upon by any of the characters.
Also, what the Hell? Sinister went crazy in the 90s at the prospect of getting any of Rachel's DNA from under Sienna Blaze's fingertips. If Mojo and Arize have access to Rachel's DNA, we're all screwed. She's supposed to be one of the most powerful mutants ever and a natural host to the Phoenix. Having an army of her would be enough for Mojo to conquer our world.
WTF?
Bright side? Shatterstar is in this issue. He is somewhere in my top 10 of favorite mutants, and Rachel is already my all-time fave and here as a permanent team member. So this issue was probably going to get 3 stars no matter what, just for the representation. (Should also be noted that Shatterstar is yet another queer character, following Northstar, Prodigy, and Daken; Shatterstar's previous personality was --arguably-- asexual, and his more recent personality is bisexual, though with true romantic love directed only at Rictor).
Adam-X is mentioned, though he does not actually appear. I get the feeling writers are chomping at the bit to finally resolve the question of whether he is a Summers brother, so having him interact with Rachel in another dimension might be the best way of finally getting to the bottom of this. Only fans who lived through the 90s can appreciate how agonizing the writing has been on this question, with whole decades going by where Adam makes no appearance whatsoever.
The nomenclature used in the Mojoverse is what I find most off-putting. All this talk of "bumps" and "streams." It's all about internet livestreaming. It all feels so unnecessarily Generation Z. And these same Generation Z readers might not understand that Spiral --displaying a different personality than she had in the 90s-- was accompanied by a dozen clones of Rachel Summers. These clones were dancing like Rockettes (Another reference Generation Z might not get), wearing Rachel's classic hound costume, with that long single braid she had when she was a teenager in Days of Future Past. New young fans might not recognize Rachel's old styling, which was never commented upon by any of the characters.
Also, what the Hell? Sinister went crazy in the 90s at the prospect of getting any of Rachel's DNA from under Sienna Blaze's fingertips. If Mojo and Arize have access to Rachel's DNA, we're all screwed. She's supposed to be one of the most powerful mutants ever and a natural host to the Phoenix. Having an army of her would be enough for Mojo to conquer our world.
WTF?
September 12, 2020
I liked the commentary on social media and how far it may go just to get likes, I don't think this is a too distant possibility and could at one stage be a reality as people will do most anything for fame.
That was interesting but the comic itself was just boring. It's not a detective comic it's just took that idea but then reverted to punch ups as real thought in a marvel comic would be a foreign concept.
Nice to see Daken get a little development time as a character, the rest are just faceless and boring especially Northstar.
Shane that such promise shown in issue one is crashing so so fast.
That was interesting but the comic itself was just boring. It's not a detective comic it's just took that idea but then reverted to punch ups as real thought in a marvel comic would be a foreign concept.
Nice to see Daken get a little development time as a character, the rest are just faceless and boring especially Northstar.
Shane that such promise shown in issue one is crashing so so fast.
September 10, 2020
I was going to give this four stars but decided to give it five just purely out of spite after reading the one star review someone else gave it on Goodreads, but I digress...
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!
Oh, just when you thought this book couldn't get any more gay, along comes a greased up, half naked Shatterstar!
I'm loving the interactions between Aurora and Daken, they're honestly worth the price of admission alone with this book. Daken likening himself to a Pokemon was honestly priceless, and then explaining that the reason he was wearing an angora sweater was just because it was soft...well...I've never liked Daken as much as I do now. For once he's more than just a knock-off Wolverine. (I mean, don't @ me, that's literally all he was in Dark X-Men).
And then there's Adam-X (the X-Treme)...who only appears in one of the text inserts, but feels like the perfect fit for this story. Because, obviously, Adam-X was just ahead of his time... ;) But, as I said in my review of the previous issue, the Mojoverse as cable TV taken to the extreme never quite clicked for me, but as selfie/Instagram/TikTok culture taken to the extreme? That seems to hit the spot. And, see, whenever anything is taken to the X-Treme, Adam-X fits right in.
(Yeah, okay, that was a stretch).
But, yeah, I'm still loving this. I mean, I love Leah Williams' work in general. So I was bound to love this.
Still, needs more Awesome Baby.
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!
Oh, just when you thought this book couldn't get any more gay, along comes a greased up, half naked Shatterstar!
I'm loving the interactions between Aurora and Daken, they're honestly worth the price of admission alone with this book. Daken likening himself to a Pokemon was honestly priceless, and then explaining that the reason he was wearing an angora sweater was just because it was soft...well...I've never liked Daken as much as I do now. For once he's more than just a knock-off Wolverine. (I mean, don't @ me, that's literally all he was in Dark X-Men).
And then there's Adam-X (the X-Treme)...who only appears in one of the text inserts, but feels like the perfect fit for this story. Because, obviously, Adam-X was just ahead of his time... ;) But, as I said in my review of the previous issue, the Mojoverse as cable TV taken to the extreme never quite clicked for me, but as selfie/Instagram/TikTok culture taken to the extreme? That seems to hit the spot. And, see, whenever anything is taken to the X-Treme, Adam-X fits right in.
(Yeah, okay, that was a stretch).
But, yeah, I'm still loving this. I mean, I love Leah Williams' work in general. So I was bound to love this.
Still, needs more Awesome Baby.
September 20, 2020
Shatterstar! I'm glad it didn't take multiple issues to find him. IDK why Mojo needs Sophia for the X-Gene when Shatterstar is half-mutant though. Couldn't he just kill him? Or does Mojo not know who Shatterstar's parents are? Seems unlikely since everything in Mojoverse is recorded. The ladies Spiral portaled in are going to be fun to watch in the combat rings!
January 25, 2023
Always down for Mojoverse content. I must say though, this story didn't seem done. Are they able to resurrect the dead girl or not? Was she depowered? Are they cloning her? Do the clones have mutant power? Are they going to rescue Shatterstar? I left this "ending" with a lot of questions. But still, it was fun to see Spiral and see this new livestreaming version of Mojoness. Fun stuff!
January 26, 2022
Well, even an extended Mojoworld storyline can't save this from mediocrity, which is a shame: I've enjoyed Williams' work on other titles, and I was hoping I'd like this more.
I do want to know what happens to Shatterstar, though, so I guess I'll continue for now.
I do want to know what happens to Shatterstar, though, so I guess I'll continue for now.
February 1, 2022
Don’t worry it’s just a tie in. 🤣 😂 funniest line in the story. How did Sofia return and why is she killing herself for views? I’m still wondering as well how the “Five” bring people back with there powers. Is this because the “no more mutants” has been reversed?
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 25, 2020
X-Factor always had a bit of a casual style to it, despite the strange cases. Williams gets that.
October 8, 2020
A celestial rondo
May 22, 2022
This series took a quick nose-dive....
April 7, 2024
That got pretty dark, I’m really hoping they follow up on these threads they’ve woven in.
October 18, 2020
The new Mojoverse is wonderfully horrifying. And Daken? Yeah, you fine.
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