Series: Comic Type: ONE-SHOT
X-Factor’s adventures continue in this Epic Collection chock full of stories never-before reprinted!With his powers surging out of control, Alex Summers is running wild! X-Factor must track him down including new members Wild Child and Mystique! But even with a nanotech inhibitor in her skull courtesy of teammate Forge, can Raven Darkhlme be trusted? As the sinister Dark Beast from the Age of Apocalypse schemes in the shadows, Havok has a showdown with Random but will he walk away from X-Factor? Plus: The holographic Shard joins the team just in time for the rebirth of Forges eternal foe, the evil Adversary! How will X-Factor react when the government forces them to add the savage Sabretooth to the team lineup?! And what foe from their shared past causes Mystique and Sabretooth to go AWOL for a solo adventure?COLLECTING:X-Factor (1986) 112-126, Sabretooth and Mystique (1996) 1-4, Marvel Fanfare (1996) 6, material from X-Men Prime (1995) 1
About Artists & Writers:
John Francis Moore wrote memorable stints on X-Force and X-Factor, also scripting the latters Age of Apocalypse incarnation Factor X. He returned to the AoA for the Sinister Bloodlines one-shot and worked his way across additional timelines in Wolverine: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Phoenix and X-Men 2099, which he wrote from start to finish. Moore also launched Doom 2099 and wrote more than half that series. At DC, he co-created additional alternate realities in Chronos, Elseworlds Finest and Superman: The Dark Side, as well as writing one-shots Batman/Scarecrow 3-D, Batman/Poison Ivy and, in collaboration with Howard Chaykin, Batman/Houdini, which won a Don Thompson Award for Best Graphic Novel. Moore and Chaykin also collaborated on DCs Ironwolf: Fires of the Revolution and First Comics American Flagg!.Howard Mackie got his start at Marvel during the late 1980s as an editor and then a writer. One of his first series as full-time scribe was 1990s massively popular Ghost Rider, which introduced the alter ego Danny Ketch to the mythos of the Spirit of Vengeance. He also wrote prolifically in the Spider-Man and X-Men titles of the 90s.Jerry Bingham has penciled covers and/or stories for Black Panther, Iron Man and several Spider-Man titles. At DC, he penciled, inked and colored Mike Barrs controversial Batman: Son of the Demon graphic novel, and penciled covers for Spectre, Warlord and DCs Babylon 5 adaptation. He has also illustrated stories for Batman Confidential and First Comics Warp. During the 1990s, he became a production artist in the film industry, designing props and special effects.With a career stretching back to First Comics, Steve Epting made his name at Marvel with an eminent fifty-issue run on Avengers during the mid-90s. He also contributed to Factor X, part of the “Age of Apocalypse” event. After working with writers Mark Waid and Chuck Dixon on various CrossGen titles, Epting returned to Marvel to embark on his first collaboration with writer Ed Brubaker on what turned out to be one of the all-time great Captain America runs. The pair also united for the Golden Age-era miniseries The Marvels Project. Eptings work with writer Jonathan Hickman includes the much-publicized death of the Human Torch in an epic run of Fantastic Four.Stefano Raffaele is an Italian comic-book artist. After penciling Hawkeye in his own title over a decade ago, Raffaele returned to Marvel to draw both Clint and Kate in Generations: Hawkeye & Hawkeye.