X-Factor: Life & Death Matters

Marvel’s X-Factor: Life & Death Matters is a single-issue one-shot from 2007, serving as a bridge between story arcs in Peter David’s celebrated run on the team. It focuses on the fallout of a major crisis, exploring the emotional and psychological toll on the mutant detectives as they grapple with loss and uncertainty. This issue matters as a character-driven pause in the larger X-Factor narrative, highlighting the human (and mutant) cost of superheroics.