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It’s been a while since we linked to Michael Carlyle’sThe Crapbox of Son Of Cthulhu, examining awful comics of the past, but here he takes a look at
X-Factor #27, a holiday issue that he found wanting:

Issue 27 was a Christmas issue. I can remember buying it off the rack as one of my weekly pulls back in 1988. The book was one of those must-haves for me because I was such a die-hard Walt Simonson pencils fan. It clearly wasn’t his best work, but anything he did ranked higher on my list than 80% of the artists out there. Plus the core group of characters included my favorite mutant (Cyclops) as well as a couple of my second tier contenders (Beast, Iceman). Yet still there was something that kept the book from ringing my bells. Yes, I found the group of young mutants “rescued” by X-Factor annoying and without any standout, neato cool powers. (pfft, pyrokinesis is so yesterday’s news.). But this was not enough to dim my outlook on the title as a whole.


Written by Louise Simonsson and drawn by Walt Simonsson and Bob Wiacek, this may seem an unlikely candidate for the crapbox, but read on and judge for yourself.

2 COMMENTS

  1. “Written by Louise Simonsson and drawn by Walt Simonsson and Bob Wiacek, this may seem an unlikely candidate for the crapbox, but read on and judge for yourself.”

    I’d like to read on, but the article seems to end here. There’s no jump or other continuation.

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