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X-Factor #50 p30 & 31 pencils (Layla Miller DPS)

Artist: Valentine De Landro (Penciller)

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Title:	X-Factor #50 p30 & 31 pencils (Layla Miller DPS)
Artist:	Valentine De Landro (Penciller)
Media Type:	Pencil
Art Type:	Double Page Splash
For Sale Status:	NFS
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Added to Site:	11/6/2010
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Seen here are the pencils for X-Factor #50 p30 & 31. I'm a big fan of storyline reveal pages, so I'm thrilled to have this one. This is the reveal page for one of the main secrets of the first 50 issues of the title, and finally shows how Layla Miller came to "know stuff". She is seen here talking to her older self from the future (or talking to her younger self in the past, depending on how you want to look at it). Up till this point, the nature and origin of her powers remained a mystery. This page reveals that her powers came about because Layla herself traveled back in time to interact with her younger self and imbued her with knowledge of the future, and for reasons of her own, told her to join up with X-Factor in the first place. So, she only knows stuff because her older self told her stuff, and she only joined X-Factor because her older self told her to. Honestly, I probably would have preferred her powers being one of the unsolved mysteries of the title. I don't really have a huge problem with this backstory (it's not the origin I would have wanted, and it kind of came out of left field as far as foreshadowing goes), but I found the origin and nature of her powers more interesting as an unknown. An X-Factor, if you will. I would like to know if this scene took place before or after HoM though. I'd guess after, but if it happened before, it could explain how she was able to recognize the HoM world as being wrong. Doesn't really explain the powers she seemed to have in that reality though, or where the powers went at the end of it.

Layla Miller is one of the few characters introduced in the last 10 years that I actually like. Siryn once described her as "Nostradamus if he was reborn as Wednesday Addams", and I've always thought that fit. She's unusual. I didn't expect to like her though. When I first heard that she was going to be a regular character in X-Factor, I was hesitant. I was excited about the series and didn't really care who the supporting cast was, but it was still a little worrying. I didn't really have a problem with her in HoM, but we didn't really get to learn a lot about her in that series and I've never really liked child characters in comics. They're inevitably kidnapped innumerable times, and are always portrayed as precocious or "spunky" but in reality are skull-crushingly annoying and take valuable time away from the real characters and story. Right around the time Layla electrocuted an assassin hired to kill Rictor, wrapped his corpse in bubble wrap and sent it back to his employers in a box as a warning and then casually billed Madrox for the shipping charge, I knew Layla was going to be different though. Every super team needs a mysterious and powerful member who may or may not be evil and who kind of scares the rest of the team, and for a while, X-Factor's just happened to also be like 13 and carry a "Hello Kitty" umbrella. Like I said, an unusual mix. Additionally, I like this page because it serves as a bridge between the younger version of Layla that we're used to, and the new older version of Layla. It's an important page, as it reinforces in reader's minds that it's the same character and that she hasn't changed all that much aside from her age. Revealing that younger Layla has always had older Layla's memories, means that essentially Layla is and always was Layla, no matter how old she appears. All in all, a very important page for the title and character.

As for the art itself, I've always found it quite striking. I like how the poses on the two Laylas are similar, but not mirror images. I'd imagine it would have been easier to just make their poses identical, instead of complimentary. I don't think the image would have worked as well though. Also hats off for remembering the correct name of her orphanage, and for putting young Layla in her HoM outfit. Cool little touches.

HUGE thanks go to Valentine De Landro for hooking me up with this one. He's a SUPER nice guy and is awesome to deal with!

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