Who dies in X-Factor #227?

It's definitely one of the characters on this cover

The answer will shock and sadden you! It’s definitely saddened me. Longtime readers of this blog will know who I feared it would be, and who I didn’t want it to be…well, they did it anyway. My favorite comic book character is dead!

Cue world’s smallest violin.

But all hope is not lost. Because even though the character dies in today’s brand new issue, the issue actually ends with a rather curious and hopeful epilogue. We all know that comic book characters don’t stay dead. Even Bucky came back from the dead, and the story was great! So there is a lot of hope for this character’s return. In fact, based on solicitations for the X-Factor issues in December, January and February, there’s a lot of promise over the next several months that this death isn’t final.

Still, this sucks. My favorite comic book character, nay, my favorite fictional character ever, and he’s dispatched on the page! Dead and gone. His friends will mourn. I will mourn. But I won’t spoil who it is in this opening.

You’re going to have to hit the jump to find out who was killed in X-Factor #227!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Yep, there you have it, Jamie Madrox the Multiple Man is killed in today’s issue of X-Factor! This sucks!

If you want to know more, and how it happened, stay tuned to this blog. I’m going to stay with this story all night if I have to! Previews of the next few months. Analysis of what this means. And just all around Multiple Man love.

Stay tuned! This isn’t over yet!