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Volume 1: Multiple Issues

Jamie Madrox, stabbed, staggering off a bus. Jamie Madrox, setting up a detective agency in the heart of Mutant Town. Jamie Madrox, a peaceful Shaolin priest. Which is the real Jamie Madrox? Is Jamie his own best friend or worst enemy? In this noir-esque thriller, it’s possible that even Madrox doesn’t know anymore. Then in the fallout from House of M a new mutant team is forged! X-Factor is an investigative mutant agency that includes Madrox, the Multiple Man; Guido, the Strong Guy; Wolfsbane, the were-wolf; Siryn, the chorus girl; Rictor, the living earthquake; and Generation X’s Monet, the pompous witch. Drawn together in the heart of District X, this rag-tag band of heroes has a lot of answers to find, and fast!

I had originally planned on breaking this volume right before Messiah CompleX so you would jump to X-Men bind (Vol 69) to continue to story then come back to volume 2. But it made more sense to just include Messiah CompleX so I added the trade paper back to this bind.

Volume 2: Back and There Again

Following the events of Messiah CompleX, X-Factor Investigations is in shambles. Jamie is a basket case from his trip to a nightmarish future, Layla’s fate is completely in the air, and Wolfsbane has to leave the team to join X-Force – though none of her friends can know about it. What will Wolfsbane tell the X-Factor team? What are they going to do about Layla? How is Jamie coping with his guilt? Get onboard here for X-Factor’s brand-new direction! Plus: He’s gone from the son of one of the world’s greatest villains to one of Earth’s Mightest Heroes and then to one of the world’s greatest villains in his own right. Now, Pietro Maximoff, Quicksilver, the man behind the Decimation of the world’s mutants, finds himself depowered and trapped in a prison cell, where he must confront all the demons of his past.

This bind was another tough call on where to break the volume.  I decided to end it with issue 50 before it goes back to legacy numbering when the next issue is 200.  It’s a thin volume.

Volume 3: Deep Scars

As the world’s only mutant detective agency, X-Factor Investigations welcomes all cases the stranger, the better! And their latest gigs involve gods, vampires, the disappearance of the Invisible Woman and the ever-volatile state of mutant politics lurching from a literal Utopia to a damaging Schism! But in the wake of a heartbreaking loss, the team has splintered and Jamie Madrox begins a quest for the answers he needs to feel whole again. What does his future have in store? Meanwhile, Siryn faces the fight of her life, and a traumatized Wolfsbane returns with a baby on the way only to learn that her ex-boyfriend, Rictor, has a new love! And will a member of X-Factor fall? It’s an X-book like no other!

Volume 4: Breaking Points

As Havok and Polaris take the reins of X-Factor Investigations, the Isolationist makes his chilling return! Then a story arc that will change the face of X-Factor forever! As a rejected Strong Guy does the unthinkable, two characters whom you never thought would come face-to-face are finally reunited. Discovering a long-buried secret from the past, one member of X-Factor will be driven insane as, devastated by the recent tragedies befalling the team, another makes a terrible sacrifice in hopes of making things right. And when the smoke clears, X-Factor’s roster will be nearly halved. The Hell on Earth War begins! The various Lords of Hell battle for dominance in a vicious, mystical war triggered by the seven billionth soul born on Earth, and only X-Factor can prevent the entire world from going up in flames! But as X-Factor struggles to stop the Lords of Hell from tearing the Earth apart, familiar faces will return. As Wolfsbane makes a life-changing decision, one of X-Factor’s longest-held secrets is revealed: the truth about Longshot and Shatterstar! Plus sibling rivalry erupts between Polaris and Quicksilver and it’s time to lock the doors and turn off the lights, as Jamie Madrox’s detective agency shuts down for good. Bid a fond farewell to Layla Miller, Strong Guy, M, Rictor and the rest. Believe it or not, it’s the end of X-Factor!