X-Factor (2005) (Collected Editions)
Series · 22
books · 2005-2014
Books in series
#1
Madrox
Multiple Choice
2005
Jamie Madrox, stabbed, staggering off a bus. Jamie Madrox, setting up a detective agency in the heart of Mutant Town. Jamie Madrox, a peaceful Shaolin priest. Which is the real Jamie Madrox? In this noir-esque thriller of a limited series, it's possible that even Madrox doesn't know anymore. Peter David, acclaimed for his run on X-Factor, reunites several of that title's most popular and whimsical characters - Jamie Madrox, Wolfsbane, and the aptly named Strong Guy - and sends them on an adventure of light and darkness. Featuring the incredibly moody pencils of Pablo Raimondi.
#2
X-Factor, Vol. 1
The Longest Night
2006
In the fallout from House of M and following the surprise film-noir hit Madrox, a new mutant team is forged! X-Factor is an investigative mutant agency that includes Madrox, the Multiple Man; Guido, the Strong Guy; Wolfsbane, the shape-shifter; Siryn, the chorus girl; Rictor, the living earthquake; and Generation X's Monet, the pompous witch. Drawn together in the heart of District X, this rag-tag band of heroes has a lot of answers to find, and fast! Collects X-Factor (2005) #1-6.
#3
X-Factor, Vol. 2
Life and Death Matters
2007
Jamie Madrox comes face-to-face with the thing that terrifies him the most: having to make a decision. The divisiveness of Civil War has spread to his own team: Half of them want to cooperate with the government; the other half wants to take a stand against it. It's Jamie's choice that may well decide whether X-Factor stays together or cracks apart. And matters aren't being helped by Quicksilver, who offers Rictor the opportunity to get his powers back - but at what price? Plus: They've been a thorn in X-Factor's side since the beginning, and now things are coming to a head. X-Factor's newest assignment causes them to again cross paths with their arch rivals, Singularity Investigations. The result is revelations that strike to the very core of who and what Jamie Madrox is. Collects X-Factor #7-12.
#4
X-Factor, Vol. 3
Many Lives of Madrox
2007
Five words to strike fear into the hearts of spies and evildoers everywhere: Jamie Madrox, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Except that when Madrox decides it's time to start gathering in the stray dupes that are still wandering around, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent doesn't especially want to go...and S.H.I.E.L.D. isn't especially inclined to let him go.
Plus: Peter David and artist Pablo Raimondi evoke memories of the classic "X-Aminations" with "Re-X-Aminations" as the new team unloads their hopes, fears and darkest secrets to an attentive Doc Samson.
Collects X-Factor #13-17.
#5
X-Factor, Vol. 4
Heart of Ice
2008
With Mutant Town under siege and the X-Cell having taken refuge there, X-Factor races both the clock and their own divided allegiances as they try to stave off the very real possibility of every former mutant being rounded up and imprisoned as a potential terrorist. But will they have to reveal their knowledge of M-Day's secret... and, if so, what will the fallout be? Collects X-Factor #18-24.
#6
X-Men
Messiah Complex
2008
In the aftermath of HOUSE OF M, DECIMATION and ENDANGERED SPECIES, the future of mutants has never been bleaker. At the seeming end of their evolutionary cycle, a miracle arrives in the form of the first mutant birth since the tragic events of M-Day, when the Scarlet Witch obliterated the X-gene from virtually every mutant on the planet. But from this source of hope comes a clash between mutants over who will control the child's fate. It is a battle in which every mutant on the planet has a stake. The fight is on. The combined effort of several of Marvel's top creators, X-MEN: MESSIAH COMPLEX mines the rich tapestry of the X-Men Universe for a dizzying thrill-ride of suspense that will set a new course for the future of mutantkind. Collecting the X-MEN: MESSIAH COMPLEX one-shot, Uncanny X-Men #492-494, X-Men #205-207, New X-Men #44-46 and X-FACTOR #25-27.
#7
X-Factor, Vol. 5
The Only Game In Town
2008
Following the events of Messiah CompleX, X-Factor Investigations is in shambles. Jamie is a basketcase from his trip to a nightmarish future, Layla's fate is completely in the air, and Wolfsbane has to leave the team to join X-Force, though none of her friends can know about it. What will Wolfsbane tell the X-Factor team? What are they going to do about Layla? How is Jamie coping with his guilt? Get onboard here for X-Factor's brand-new direction!
Collects X-Factor #28-32 and X-Factor: The Quick and the Dead.
#8
X-Factor, Vol. 6
Secret Invasion
2009
A SECRET INVASION TIE-IN X-Factor is in pursuit of Darwin, whose father is looking for him. She-Hulk and Jazinda are in pursuit of Longshot, who may hold the key to defeating the Skrull invasion. With Darwin and Longshot on the run, neither of them wanting to be found, you'd just assume that X-Factor and She-Hulk will work together smoothly to accomplish both their goals. But what fun would that be?
Collects X-Factor #33-38 and She-Hulk #31.
#9
X-Factor, Vol. 7
Time and a Half
2009
Witness the most important event in the lives of Jaime Madrox and Siren - the birth of their baby! What will happen to X-Factor - and what will be the meaning for mutantkind!All we can guarantee are that the answers are not what you expect - but that's what makes it X-Factor! Don't miss what is sure to be one of the most talked-about books of 2009! Collects X-Factor #39-45.
#10
X-Factor, Vol. 8
Overtime
2009
It's Siryn in the fight of her life against the absolute last person that she would have expected to be battling. And Madrox, Layla and Ruby find themselves under assault by the Sentinels just when they're on the verge of discovering the mystery behind Cortex! Collecting X-Factor #46-50, and X-Factor: Layla Miller One-Shot.
#11
X-Factor, Vol. 9
Invisible Woman has Vanished
2010
X-Factor has relocated back to NewYork, and their first client is a keeper: Franklin Richards, whose mom has disappeared and who figures that the premier detective agency in the Marvel Universe has the best chance of finding her. Except Reed Richards doesn't seem especially cooperative in helping them locate his missing wife. What is he hiding, and does it have anything to do with the coming Darkness? Meanwhile, Val Cooper has some bad news for Monet: Her ambassador father has been taken prisoner by terrorists, and she has less than 24 hours to find him before he winds up getting his head cut off on video.
Collecting: X-Factor #200-203.
#12
X-Factor, Vol. 10
Second Coming
2010
You're Bolivar Trask, the reanimated leader of the Mutant Response Division. Your mission: Kill every member of X-Factor: How to accompoish that without collateral damage? Easy: hire the tam for what seems to be a routine case that will send them into a certain death trap. Problem solved. And in NATION X, Cyclops invites the world's only mutant detective agency to relocate to their floating island retreat and take up residence there. But will Madrox and his team believe that it's the best place for them? What old faces will pop up, and what old acquaintances will be renewed? And will there even be a Utopia left when the mysterious Crone shows up and threatens to bring the entire place crashing down into the Pacific?
COLLECTING: X-Factor #204-206, Nation X: X Factor
#13
X-Factor, Vol. 11
Happenings in Vegas
2011
Remember when we warned you about the shocking twist involving Madrox's baby? Remember when the return of Shatterstar wound up making every comics-related website? Well, that was just a warm-up for the shocking events in this volume. X-Factor gets a new client, a tall green-garbed woman with a deadly secret, but that's just a set-up for the jaw-dropping surprise to come.
Collecting: X-Factor #207-212
#15
X-Factor, Vol. 13
Hard Labor
2011
Hoping to be absolved of recently committed sins before she gives birth, Wolfsbane goes to confess - but it isn't forgiveness that awaits her. In fact, she's going to have to face her demons head on. Literally! Oh, and that baby she's carrying? Turns out that it's not quite what she expected either.
Collecting X-FACTOR (1986) #220-224.
#16
X-Factor, Vol. 14
Super Unnatural
2012
X-Factor investigations has been taking on stranger and stranger cases recently ... but when an eerie sighting leads the group to the hometown of their leader, Jamie Madrox the Multiple Man, they may have stumbled on a bigger mystery than they intended. Plus: it started with their new acquaintance, Sally, found brutally slain in her kitchen. And more recently, two rival gangs' lifeless bodies sprawled across a basketball court, a noose around each of their necks. Hot on the trail of a serial killer who's lynching his victims, the mutant detectives of X-Factor investigations are eager to cut his killing spree short. But here's hoping they find him before he finds them!
COLLECTING: X-FACTOR 224.1, 225-228
#17
X-Factor, Vol. 15
They Keep Killing Madrox
2012
Layla Miller. Jamie Madrox. Husband and wife. Lying murdered in their honeymoon suite. The moment you thought would never come is here, and not only are you a witness to it, but so is Jamie Madrox himself. We feel safe in saying that this is X-Factor as you've never seen them before, in what has to be the trippiest story arc in the history of Marvel. COLLECTING: X-Factor 229-232
#19
X-Factor, Vol. 17
The Road to Redemption
2012
Madrox investigates a suicide case that isn't what it initially seems! Banshee clashes with ... an actual banshee! Strong Guy asks M out on a date. (Yikes!) And Layla Miller races the clock! It's X-Factor action as only veteran X-scribe Peter David can provide!
COLLECTING: X-FACTOR 237-240
#20
X-Factor, Vol. 18
Breaking Points
2013
The story arc that will change the face of X-Factor forever! As a rejected Strong Guy does the unthinkable, two characters whom you never thought would come face-to-face are finally reunited. Discovering a long-buried secret from the past, one member of X-Factor will be driven insane as, devastated by the recent tragedies befalling the team, another makes a terrible sacrifice in hopes of making things right. And when the smoke clears, X-Factor's roster will be nearly halved...
COLLECTING: X-Factor 241-245
#21
X-Factor, Vol. 19
Short Stories
2013
Get an exclusive behind the scenes look of how, in a typical day and a typical X-Factor case, Pip the Troll holds the entire team together without their knowledge. Plus: a newly-married X-Factor couple attempts to honeymoon in the happiest place on Earth...but instead must face off with a villain hoping to bring about hell on Earth instead! Who says romance is dead?
COLLECTING: X-Factor 246-249
#22
X-Factor, Vol. 20
Hell on Earth War
2013
A full year of X-FACTOR stories culminates here, as the Hell on Earth War begins!
The various Lords of Hell battle for dominance in a vicious, mystical war triggered by the seven billionth soul born on Earth, and only X-Factor can prevent the entire world from going up in flames! But as X-Factor struggles to stop the Lords of Hell from tearing the Earth apart, familiar faces will return - the first of whom is Strong Guy! And he has a bone to pick with his former teammates. This is the beginning of the end for X-Factor as you know it...
COLLECTING: X-Factor 250-256
#23
X-Factor, Vol. 21
The End of X-Factor
2014
Peter David's epic tale, nearly a decade in the telling, draws to its close!
As the members of X-Factor recover from the Hell on Earth War, and Wolfsbane makes a life-changing decision, one of X-Factor's longest-held secrets is revealed: the truth about Longshot and Shatt erstar!
Plus, sibling rivalry erupts between Polaris and Quicksilver...and it's time to lock the doors and turn off the lights, as Jamie Madrox's detecti ve agency shuts down for good. Bid a fond farewell to Layla Miller, Strong Guy, M, Rictor and the rest. Believe it or not, it's the end of X-Factor!
COLLECTING: X-FACTOR 257-262
#0.5-2
X-Factor by Peter David
The Complete Collection, Volume 1
2014
Relive the gripping, noir-esque launch of Peter David's most memorable concept: X-Factor Investi- gations! Jamie Madrox sets up a detective agency in the heart of Mutant Town...but with so many duplicates out in the world, who is the real Madrox? Does he even know anymore? Then, when the fallout from the House of M depowers most of the world's mutants, X-Factor must find answers fast! With Guido, Wolfsbane, Siryn, M and Rictor by his side, and joined by the stuff -knowing Layla Miller, Madrox must take on the manipulati ve prescient Mr. Tryp's rival group Singularity Investigations, navigate a superhuman Civil War, learn why the X-Men lied to his team, deal with the unbalanced Quicksilver's new ability to reboot mutant powers for a price...and discover the deadly traitor in X-Factor's midst! COLLECTING: MADROX 1-5, X-FACTOR (2006) 1-12
Authors
Marc Silvestri
Author · 2 books
Marc Silvestri is an American comic book artist, creator and publisher. He currently acts as the CEO for Top Cow Productions.
Ed Brubaker
Author · 94 books
Ed Brubaker (born November 17, 1966) is an Eisner Award-winning American cartoonist and writer. He was born at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. Brubaker is best known for his work as a comic book writer on such titles as Batman, Daredevil, Captain America, Iron Fist, Catwoman, Gotham Central and Uncanny X-Men. In more recent years, he has focused solely on creator-owned titles for Image Comics, such as Fatale, Criminal, Velvet and Kill or Be Killed. In 2016, Brubaker ventured into television, joining the writing staff of the HBO series Westworld.
Mike Carey
Author · 58 books
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. Mike Carey was born in Liverpool in 1959. He worked as a teacher for fifteen years, before starting to write comics. When he started to receive regular commissions from DC Comics, he gave up the day job. Since then, he has worked for both DC and Marvel Comics, writing storylines for some of the world's most iconic characters, including X-MEN, FANTASTIC FOUR, LUCIFER and HELLBLAZER. His original screenplay FROST FLOWERS is currently being filmed. Mike has also adapted Neil Gaiman's acclaimed NEVERWHERE into comics. Somehow, Mike finds time amongst all of this to live with his wife and children in North London. You can read his blog at www.mikecarey.net.
Peter David
Author · 185 books
aka David Peters Peter Allen David (often abbreviated PAD) is an American writer, best known for his work in comic books and Star Trek novels. David often jokingly describes his occupation as "Writer of Stuff". David is noted for his prolific writing, characterized by its mingling of real world issues with humor and references to popular culture. He also uses metafiction frequently, usually to humorous effect, as in his work on the comic book Young Justice.
