X-Factor - Volume 3: Many Lives of Madrox

It is number 3 in this new series of tales of X-Factor, in which Peter DAVID mixes the classic "mutie" line of events (such as the complicate "House of M" affair) with a "film noir" feel and a "realistic" portraying of relationships within a group of male and female twenty-somethings. Particularily interesting is Madrox, a mutant (of sorts) that duplicates himself when hit. And he is hit rather often. He even creates by himself new duplicates that he dispatches around only to "reintegrate" them after a time in order to gain their new knowledge (duplicates work for SHIELD, are priests or private dicks, for instance). Though artist Pablo RAIMONDI is not, in my opinion, as good as Ryan SOOK in giving life to DAVID's X-Force stories, the resulting product is rather gripping and refreshing. This volume is a good read by itself but newcomers to X-Force should start with volume 1 (The Longest Night).

This is such a break from the norm. Give These books a try! Love all 3 volumes that are out!