| Essential X-Factor, Vol. 2 (Marvel Essentials) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Louise Simonson, Walt Simonson, Jo Duffy, Tom Defalco, June Brigman, Steve Lightle, Terry Shoemaker, Sal Buscema, Tom Grindberg
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 253078
Media: Paperback
Edition: Direct Ed
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 544
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 6.6 x 1.4
ISBN: 0785120998
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780785120995
ASIN: 0785120998
Publication Date: February 14, 2007
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 Better than the first volume... August 3, 2008
I've seen other reviews that said this volume was worse, but I enjoyed it more. X-Factor ditches their "mutant hunter" guise once they're forced out of it by Apocalypse, which is good since it was getting pretty old with no good reason to hang onto it.
Walt Simonson's art is superb, and he and Louise weren't afraid to take chances, especially changing the Angel into Death (and later in the series Archangel). If you made it through the first volume, give this one a shot too.
 Barely Made It Through May 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I grew up reading mainly just the X-Titles that Marvel had at the time (Uncanny, New Mutants, X-Factor, and eventually X-Men and X-Force although I stopped reading comics around the time that these last two titles got about 20 issues into their runs). Sooo, I've been feeling nostalgic and I've spent a lot of time recently re-reading and filling in the gaps of my X-History Knowledge. After reading 6 volumes of the X-Mens Essentials collections, I decided that I'd hit X-Factor as well, since the stories were related at certain points. My conclusion- I barely made it through this 2nd volume. Granted, there are a handful of interesting issues here, and you do get to see Angel turn to Arcangel, and you do get to see Cyclops life fall apart a little bit more, but the art and the writing are worse than I remember them being when I was younger. Obviously, I guess I just didn't notice when I was a kid. For example, and for somereason this sticks out in my head, but there is an extreme over use of exclamation points that, as an adult, was incredibly distracting. Every sentence ends like this! Anyway, if you're reading this review, you are probably a fan of the Essential Collections, or at least partially interested in the X-Men family, so you'll probably read it anyway, and I'm not trying to deter anyone who wants to, but, if you're on the fence about the need to read this volume too, it's not entirely necessary in the whole X-Universe. You know what would have been? A New Mutants Essentials Volume 1 and 2.
I've seen better April 7, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
The Essential series is a great way to fill the gaps for those who missed a couple of decades in the Marvel chronology. However, this particular issue is not among the best IMHO. Besides the interesting change Angel goes through, what you get is mostly Cyclops whining, a rather unconvincing human villain and a weak Apocalypse (seriously, is that really all he can do?).
This book is OK for collectors, other readers probably won't need it.
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