I know X-Factor is soon to be ending but there seems to be a general lack of threads on The Vine to discuss all things X-Factor.

So....

Who's read X-Factor #256?

Who thinks Tier's awesome?

What do people thing of Soulless Strong Guy?

Happy or sad that the title is ending? Do you too agree that X-Factor's been on a steady decline for the last few years?

Discuss!

This book has been on a steady decline for years, but that slope has gotten steep with these past two arcs. Yikes, Hell on Earth and End of X-Factor have been terrible.

Terrible is an overstatement, IMO. It doesn't reach the stellar standard of the first 17 issues, but it's still decent.

Guido's been pissing me off for years, though.

I, for one, have really enjoyed the last two issues of EoX. Not too keen on the first issue of the arc.

Yeaaaaaaah. I see I'm not the only one.

I'm behind though.

Pretty much since he lost his soul tbh, especially this new Lord of Hell thing.

Can we talk about how Layla (and Layla x Jamie) is actually perfect?

If you want to, though it'd be nice for Layla/Jamie to run off into the sunset together for a while, I think!

It probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite ship in comics.

Yeah, since he lost his soul.

Nothing became of it. It was moreso that Shatterstar was just experiencing Earth culture in its fullest. I mean, he's a pansexual being. If anything, it makes his love for Rictor all the more endearing.

I hope not, I'd burn Marvel headquarters down in my rage.

Yeah, I guess it does.

I'll b all over the network book when it's out

Tier was pretty good....too bad P.A.D. seems to have an unhealthy fascination with infanticide :-)

Strong Guy - Didn't like him when he had a soul. Hate him now, he murdered my favorite character's son.....kinda hard to win a fan like that.

Honestly, I'm glad its over, its been running on fumes for years and I don't like the way he wrote Rahne, especially once she came back. Please understand, I'm not bashing the author, a lot of his other works have been good and he's done a good job writing other characters, Jamie and Layla are two good examples. That being said I feel like his interpretation of Rahne was way out of character compared to how she'd been written for years. He didn't start it, that was done in New Mutants Vol2, but he could have stopped it.

The new X-Factor is a different concept and I feel like it might work and I'm more than willing to give it a shot.