Now that I’m digging back into my comic guides, it’s time to start attacking my backlog of 150+ guides that haven’t had a significant revision in half a decade! Time flies when you’re reading comics. This week, I’ve reached back to update one of CK’s earliest guides. Actually, I re-wrote every word and rebuilt every link from scratch to make it easier than ever to find the physical and digital collections you want. Welcome to my all-new, all-different Guide to X-Factor.
My last update of the Guide to X-Factor was in the middle of the Reign of X, which means it wasn’t missing too many collections – just the newest Epics and the relatively fresh second and third volumes of the Peter David Omnibus line.
However, that doesn’t meant the page was easy to use! The guide had grown to be a labyrinth of collections with 20 years worth of competing oversized hardcovers, Epics, and paperbacks. That approach to guide organization predates Marvel’s more-organized approach to the contents of Omnibuses and Epic collections. Now that collection formats are getting tidier, the guide should follow! Now, major collection formats have their own sections that you can easily open or skip.
As a result, I rebuilt every collection link on the page. That’s not the only big change to this guide. I’ve added all of the features of the newest guides on the site, including a “Where to Start” section, digital purchase links, reformatted images, and links to read on Marvel Unlimited!
This was one of my milder rebuilds, since it didn’t require adding many new collections or researching character appearances. It still took a whopping five hours altogether, which is almost as long as it takes to create a small new guide from scratch! I’ve got my work cut out for me keeping everything updated, but the more often I do it the easier and quicker it becomes.
Enjoy this renewed Guide to X-Factor – and, let me know in the comments which of my 200+ guides you’d love to see me update next!
Hey Krisis!! I’ve been a big fan of your guides for about 5-7 years and I’ve been working on my own X-Men timeline post-AvX. I’d love to see Era #6 onwards getting a little bit of love in terms of a rewrite and would love to help out in terms of pushing the Eras you currently have into the modern day!
Caleb, thank you for the kind note and thank you for letting me know what you’d like to see updated the most! I don’t know if I’ll ever attack those post-AvX eras when there are so many guides left to make, but I have done SO MUCH RESEARCH on improving existing Eras that I cannot wait to update on the pages.
You don’t know how excited that makes me!! Been a lifelong X-Men fan since picking up the Essential X-Men black & white volumes when I was a kid and it’s a lot of fun talking to someone with the same amount of passion!
Caleb, if it’s okay with you I’d like to shoot you an email about something you’ve mentioned. Is it okay if I use the one you commented with? Just say “yes” and I’m good to go 😉
Yes! I’m changed my email with this reply cause I’ll actually get a notification for it