No one picked up Southern Bastards? That was my only read this week. As much as I love R.M. Guerra (I have a pencil sketch of Dash Bad Horse from him hanging in my apt), I would have LOVED to have seen LaTour on there. So far, "Southern Scalped" is developing nicely, though I'm wondering if the divine intervention at…

Tony Harris' delays didn't help that feeling either I'm sure!

I cosign Jordo's confusion. Explain?

YES. I read that storyline on Marvel Unlimited and was VERY impressed.

As long as it's not one I want to read, I'm good. I'd really, really, really like to be able to read and enjoy a current X-book, but Marvel seems to not want that.

And what I don't understand is: his art in the 90's was only SLIGHTLY better. In PAD's first X-Factor run, his pencils weren't AS bad. Whenever he had more than half a page to draw an attractive woman's face, it was OK. Everything else was dogshit.

He sure is the worst. Any sign that he might be leaving soon?

His work peters put shortly after the renumbering if I recall correctly.

I'm pretty OK with Ellis writing done-in-one, scifi superhero detective stories though. Nothing revolutionary, but enjoyable enough.

Also, cannot for the life of me tell Emma and Illyana apart when they're out-of-costume.

The slanted panel orientation gets obnoxious (though that'd happen less if Bendis wasn't such a big fan of 8-10 panels spread across 2 pages), every person looks like a rectangle, and his color palette is drab. I give him points on costume design (Kid Gladiator and Warbird are pretty dope), but I actively ignore the…

The sad thing is that PAD is at the top of his game when he has to deal with Larry Stroman as an artist. Who decided that man should be allowed to draw?

I haven't read the comics, but I believe you, Rory.

Ex Machina was actually 50. I'd say 50-60 might be what we're looking at here.

X-Factor definitely gets even better as it goes along; as far as I'm concerned you're at the part where the book hits its stride. It drops off in quality a bit before and during Hell on Earth War, but you're almost at the end there.

Read the first issue. Liked the first issue. Didn't like it for $3/month. I figure I might snap it up once all issues are $2 or during a sale.

You win Comics, Matt.

I always say that if I lost my job TODAY, I would still find money to read Saga and Daredevil. Chew is next on that last.

Good to know. I feel like I read comics too quickly and don't regard the art, so that might be nice.

What was the bad stuff in this?