Comments on: X-Factor Flashback: #70-89 (1991-1993)

By: rene

rene — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:48:35 +0000

i very much disagree about the art by larry stroman and al milgrom. i think its phantastic. it might be too self-consciously stylish for some tastes, much like the recent work of chris bachalo. but unlike bachalos work, stromans is perfectly readable to me.

By: Comics Worth Reading

Comics Worth Reading — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:26:49 +0000

[...] Rahne Sinclair, a werewolf and one of his former superhero teammates, works for Jamie, as does Strong Guy. The characterization is great; although Peter David has worked with these characters before, on the title X-Factor, the new reader doesn’t need to know anything but what’s provided. There’s a lot of information packed into the story about the way these personalities relate to and care about each other. The art by Pablo Raimondi and Drew Hennessy is nicely realistic, which grounds the more fantastic occurrences, and quite attractive. [...]

By: Comics Worth Reading

Comics Worth Reading — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:53:13 +0000

[...] David addresses that topic in the letter column, briefly, saying that he reads the other comics when we do and has to figure out how to work key events into his schedule. I’m impressed he can do as much as he does here, and given his classic run on the title, I see Quicksilver’s impending presence as suggesting good things for the book. (Plus, also in the letter column, David reveals that #13 will be similar to the well-remembered psychiatry issue from that run.) [...]

By: hostile17

hostile17 — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:04:14 +0000

I do have a few of these issues in my collection and I agree with the statement that Dale Keown and Peter David worked well together. I remember seeing them together at a comic book shop down Melrose were they gave away pages of their Hulk Comics. I really wished I had taken better care of them though as they got lost over the years!

By: Johanna

Johanna — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 01:28:07 +0000

Brian, back then, sales to newsstands were returnable (which is why they printed 500K to sell 400K). So if a book didn’t sell, it got sent back. Barring potential fraud, the sales to customers were a higher percentage of sales figures cited than they are now.

By: Brian J.

Brian J. — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 05:35:52 +0000

Hmmm . . . I wonder though how many books were actually being purchased by collectors or readers? I know that a lot of retailers still have long boxes full of X-Men #1 (Lee series). When they say they printed x amount of books to sell y issues, are they meaning that they actually sold y issues to actual readers, or just stores?

By: Dave Carter

Dave Carter — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:30:44 +0000

And IIRC, at the time X-Factor was considered a mid-tier book, as titles like X-Men, Uncanny X-Men and X-Force were selling around 1,000,000 copies per issue.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:29:05 +0000

Those circulation numbers blow my mind. This run started just about when I was abandoning comics the first time at the end of high school. It’s hard to fathom that the numbers on individual titles have shrunk so much in my (not all that long) lifetime.

By: Ray Cornwall

Ray Cornwall — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:08:11 +0000

That X-Factor Hulk story was well done if you get to read all three parts. The artist on Hulk at the time was Dale Keown, and Keown never did better work in his life than with Peter David. There should be some sort of law that the two of them should always work together.

By: Dan Coyle

Dan Coyle — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:30:00 +0000

I agree with you 100% that those were the best issues of the run.

David said at the time in But I Digress that due to fallout from the Northstar outing in ’92, the aborition story “was rewritten into incomprehensibility.”