The first time we ever got a look at Apocalypse, in X-Factor #5, the mysterious leader of the Allian
The first time we ever got a look at Apocalypse, in X-Factor #5, the mysterious leader of the Alliance of Evil who mutated the Beast from his furry self into his more human appearance. However, it was not originally going to be Apocalypse at all. It was going to be the lesser known Daredevil enemy, the Owl!But as this was Bob Layton’s last issue, Louise Simonson was taking over, one half of the power couple of creatives at Marvel along with her husband, Thor and FF artist Walt Simonson…and Louise felt that making X-Factor’s enemy a Daredevil baddie was a terrible idea. A new team deserved a new villain of a grandiose and terrible variety. So she asked Guice to redraw the last panel, which featured the Owl, into Apocalypse, a new villain. The decision to add Apocalypse to the book made X-Factor go from a nostalgia centered reunion of the original 5 X-Men, to a book with an identity in its own right. My favorite part of Simonson’s run on X-Factor was Cameron Hodge and the Right, robot suits with creepy, creepy smiles painted on (very reminiscent of the more disturbing Doctor Who monsters), a spoof of Reagan-era consumerist society and it’s sinister underpinnings: A history of the Simonsons and X-Factor can be seen here: -- source link
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