VERY FINE/NEAR MINT
Written by PETER DAVID
Pencils by LARRY STROMAN
Cover by BOO COOK
Secret Invasion tie-in! A She-Hulk crossover! Darwin and Longshot show up! New cover artist, Boo Cook! New
interior artist, Larry Stroman! And...oh yeah...X-Factor's new digs! What do we have to do, put it in your hands
ourselves?!
REVIEW by Brian Fisher
Back in the day, when I was a stupid kid I thought Larry Stroman was a great artist. Now that I've got taste and humility I can admit that I was wrong. Granted, his stuff in this issue is better than his stuff on X-Factor in the '90s, but every character he draws still looks like it was pummeled by the Whilce Portacio ugly-stick. Longshot, who's been long absent from the X-titles returns (but of course that's not really Longshot, this being an SI tie-in) as well as Darwin, who is one of Ed Brubaker's better contributions to the X-universe. Of course Peter David still knocks the story out of the park, but as was the case with this week's Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge, it suffers a bit from the artwork.
