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It’s hard to be a mutant teenager. (X-Factor #16)

We kind of skirted this part of the storyline, because it makes us both super uncomfortable and we weren’t really sure what angle to approach it from. You do you. (X-Factor #16)

Boom Boom fits right in at X-Factor! (X-Factor #16)

“Triumphant strangulation” is not a phrase you get to use under very many circumstances. (X-Factor #16)

Well, no, but it’s a nice sentiment. (X-Factor #16)

WHOOPS. (X-Factor #17)

The kids are the only ones who are not treating this as business as usual. (X-Factor #17)

X-Factor is THE WORST at interventions. (X-Factor #17)

Bobby, now is probably not the best time to joke about flight safety. Also, I’m kind of genuinely horrified that they APPARENTLY KEEP SPARE UNIFORMS WHERE THE LIFE VESTS GO. This is like how in the LEGO Blackbird there’s a chair blocking the door of the cabinet with the fire extinguisher and… okay, look, I realize no one else cares about this. BUT IT BUGS ME. (X-Factor #17)

“Not that I don’t appreciate the rescue, but don’t you people ever use doors?” (X-Factor #17)

“NOPE!” (X-Factor #17)

Cameron Hodge is so good at villain speeches. (X-Factor #17)

FANCY THAT, SKIDS. (X-Factor #18)

“I mean, we’re gonna get brainwashed by Scott and Jean’s clone’s kid’s clone, and then join a cult; and I’ll get killed in space by Holocaust; but the Phoenix Force is definitely not involved in most of that.” (X-Factor #18)

Scott’s life is basically an ongoing game of Hallucination or Hologram right now. (X-Factor #18)

“Skids, sometimes when two grown-ups love each other very much, and one of them was briefly replaced by a cosmic force, and the other married her clone, and–look, just give us a minute, please.” (X-Factor #18)

Ouch. (X-Factor #18)

DUH. (X-Factor #18)

Oh, hi, Angel. (X-Factor #18)

“Nineteen issues in, and we STILL haven’t figured doors out.” (X-Factor #19)

Cyclops X-Plains superhero comics in a nutshell. (X-Factor #19)

THOSE ARE NOT HORSES. Awesome, but not horses. (X-Factor #19)

Have I mentioned that X-Factor is the worst at interventions? Because X-Factor is definitely the worst at interventions. (X-Factor #19)

Well, then. (X-Factor #19)

The kids X-Factor rescued remain by far and away the most functional aspect of the whole operation. (X-Factor #20)

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