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Stage Four: Depression – X-Factor #227
Oh woe is me.
Are comic books even worth it anymore? They’re just not going to feel the same. I won’t have X-Factor to look forward to every month, at least not my X-Factor. Sure the title will still be coming out, but my favorite character is dead. My favorite superhero has been killed. My favorite fictional character of all time has been mur-diddily-urdlered!
I am infinite sadness.
But cheer up, Sean, you might say. Death is a joke in comic books these days. Everyone from Bucky to Aunt May has come back from the dead, so it’s only a matter of time before your favorite character returns. Heck, he’s already ‘died’ once before and come back. His super power is essentially a get out of ‘dead’ free card.
Some of you might even punch me in the stomach and tell me to ‘grow up’ because it’s just a freakin’ comic book!
And to all of you I’d say, “It’s just not the same.”
Stage Three: Bargaining – X-Factor #227
What’s it going to take, Marvel Comics and Peter David, for you to see the error of your ways and bring my favorite comic book character back to life? To ensure that he makes it through this wild, strange trip you have planned for him? I want him back on his feet and having fun by March. You got that!?
Maybe this is cosmic punishment for having not yet read Peter David’s Dark Tower series.
It’s not like I don’t want to read Dark Tower. It’s all in a big pile there on my desk, waiting for me to get around to it. So how about that, PAD, what if I read Dark Tower? Then will you be kinder to my favorite character? What if I go back and read your original Incredible Hulk run, the one that everybody says is awesome? I don’t even care that much about the Incredible Hulk.
But I’ll do it if it makes you happy!
Is it that I’m not buying enough X-Men series? But I don’t care about Generation Hope, X-Men, X-Men: Legacy, New Mutants, Shiny Mutants, X-Treme, X-Boys, X-Gobbledegooks, etc. Whatever the hell else you’re publishing. Don’t take my indifference out on my favorite character!
I think the real problem is that X-Factor just has too many characters. Why couldn’t he kill one of them?
Stage Two: Anger – X-Factor #227
YOU KILLED HIM!! YOU BASTARDS!! HOW COULD YOU?!?
NERD RAAAAAAAAGE!!
He’s my favorite comic book character! My favorite superhero! Why did you have to kill him!? What does it accomplish!? The book is doing great! There are a ton of good stories! Death in comic books is a joke! So why kill my guy!? You’re all a bunch of bastards! He was a really fun and popular fictional character.
X-Factor is going to suck now. Hello Cancelville!
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Anger is the second stage of grief. Here are the others:
Stage One: Denial – X-Factor #227
It's not just a river in Egypt
There is hope.
Yes, my favorite comic book character was killed in X-Factor #227 today. A sword plunged through his torso, there was blood everywhere. Oh man, oh man, he’s dead! But he’s not really dead. How do I know this?
Because he wakes back up on the very next page – sort of.
I still don’t want to spoil who dies or what happens. I’ll save that for my review of issue #227, which will be posted within the next day or two. But right now, I’m still reeling from the death of my favorite superhero. Yet even though he was killed, there’s still hope that this is not the end. There’s a lot of hope, actually. A metric ton of hope. And not just the usual ‘nobody stays dead in comic books’ kind of hope. I mean real, on the page, hope that this is not the end, just the beginning.
He’s not really dead, people, and I can prove it.
Spoilers after the jump.
They Did It, They Killed Him – X-Factor #227
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!
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