[...] X-Factor #3 continues the title’s excellence. I become more and more impressed by writer PeterDavid’s use of Layla Miller as a kind of future-seeing force of destiny. [...]

[...] I should skip straight past the exclusives. With the exception of a couple of Marvel titles (X-Factor and Nextwave), there’s nothing here I’m interested in. And the penalty this month for not skipping was having to see the Pittsburgh Comicon ad just before the Wizard solicitation. It features two comic characters, the busty Spider-Woman and Tarot, with a burst reading “Big Things Happen at the Pittsburgh Comicon”. You don’t say. (Apparently, the boobs on Spider-Woman are to promote the appearance of Brian Bendis. Write your own joke.) [...]

[...] I am most disappointed by the lack of further adventures of these characters, though. If I want to read more, I’ll probably look for fanfic instead of trying to figure out which comics to read. The earliest ones are too cheesy, the Claremont/Byrne are too stuck in their format, and the current ones are too far removed from what I like about the characters. By “stuck in their format” I mean that they were written to be read two months apart several decades ago, so they don’t make a satisfying experience when read in large chunks, in my opinion. At least I have X-Factor. [...]