X-Factor #27: God Rest Ye Merry X-Men

Cyclops get all of a few hours happiness at the start of X-Factor #27 before he catches Maddy imploring him to find their son. Oh. He hadn't realised that was a concern, he says. Seriously, what? Last he knew Maddy was dead and there was no record of her or little Baby X existing. I guess he was assuming his son was dead too, but still. Someone did a number on them. He should never have come back from Alaska. He should have summoned his friends. But he can't go back in time to fix that, so he'll go looking again now.

It's emotional catharsis month in X-Factor, apparently, as Jean finally visits her parents and lets them know she's still alive (they had seen her on the tellybox, but weren't quite certain). The Sara Grey plot is revisited: they have no ideas, were in Europe in the time, the investigation has gone cold.

Now to me it still seems pretty clear the Mr. Sinister is behind all this: we know he was responsible for the attack on Maddy, even if we don't know what she was doing in San Francisco exactly; and Sara goes missing in a similar attack at the same timeframe. Leong and Nga too. Obviously this is all the fault of Mr. Sinister, I look forward to his elaborate conspiracy being revealed in the next year of X-Factor, for which Karma will no doubt join the cast. Oh, that's not what happens? Instead some of these plotlines are left unresolved for basically an entire decade? Sigh. Well, at least Baby X is being followed up. That's something.