X-Factor #3 is fun from cover to cover. Leah Williams, David Baldeon, and Isreal Silva continue to deliver a fun story rooted in an understanding of the characters and the world they live in. Read Full Review

Overall this book is a must read. It's so fantastic and fun on every page. If you're not reading it then you're missing out. Read Full Review

X-Factor #3 is the best issue of the series yet, maximizing the detective adventure and supplying an interesting commentary on corporate greed with an expert handle of its characters. X-Factor is a crowd-pleaser for a variety of crowds. Read Full Review

In the end, the entire creative team has taken this property and really hooked their claws into the shape of it. X-Factor has been crafted into something more modern, reflecting social narratives that are easily recognizable, and a team that matches the times. X-Factor is a worthy inclusion that only deepens the excellent X-Men and Krakoan lore! Read Full Review

David Baldeons art shines through in not only the action moments, but the character moments especially. The quiet moments between Daken and Aurora are beautifully drawn and laid out. This is a great looking issue and Baldeon has a gift for capturing expression on the faces of characters. Read Full Review

There's a lot of promise here that Williams is delivering on to date, doing enough legwork to establish the team just before X of Swords comes out to play starting next week. Read Full Review

X-Factor discovers the fate of a missing mutant, while also encountering an old friend trapped in the Mojoverse. Read Full Review

This may prove to be a divisive issue, and your enjoyment of the comic may depend on how well you can handle ramped-up Mojoverse nonsense. Read Full Review

There's madness at play in this issue in the Mojoverse, but story and character development are at the forefront, so it's more enjoyable than the previous issue. Read Full Review

X-Factor #3 was another great entry in what is quickly becoming one of the top titles in the X-Men franchise. Leah Williams captures a fun dynamic with the team and develops the new status quo in the Mojoverse to have multiple layers that are still being uncovered. Read Full Review

It all feels too hurried, which becomes especially evident as the issue closes with a wall of text before offering a tease for the future. Hopefully, some of the dangling threads are explored once the upcoming 'X of Swords' crossover event is finished. X-Factor is a series with a lot of promise, but the fun of murder mysteries is the journey in solving it, and X-Factor #3 makes that journey a bit too crowded. Read Full Review

Final Thoughts: There's a whole lot going on here. Unfortunately not much is all that good. I'll stick with this through the first arc, and hope that once this Mojoworld story ends that the nonsense will end too. But if I don't see a big improvement, very soon, X-Factor will be the first X-book I drop. Read Full Review

I like the concepts in this issue and I hope that some of it is explored more. The issue was a little wordy, though. And clearly, there still wasn't enough room.

X-Factor meets up with Shatterstar, the Mojoverse's most popular streamer and the secret architect of their mission. They need to yoink the dead mutant's body away before Mojo can clone her X-gene. Lots of good ideas here and the art is excellent, but the team suffers a lack of agency. And the verbal and visual storytelling both suffer from a "more is always better" approach that tends toward clutter.

Although I'm a fan of the DoX format in general, I think some authors take advantage of the "datafile" pages to spackle several hundred words of prose over the plot holes they leave in their comics.

Honestly, changing Daken’s outfit made this whole issue so much more palatable for me.

This was pretty good. I think it's the least interesting issue so far, but it's also the most consistently well-written.

Frustrating and kind of boring. I do like the art somewhat, but the writing just seems rudderless.

A lot of really cool ideas but truly awful writing. And I don’t personally love the art.

a bloody mess.
There is really a lot of bloody on this issue.
Basically no detective work was made again, only first issue had it. The whole cast seems to have 14

Wow, I wanted to like this