Life and Death Matters

Jamie Madrox has always dodged choices, and now he cannot. The Civil War has split his team, X-Factor, down the middle. Half of its members want to work with the government, and the other half want to stand against it.

Jamie's decision may determine whether the team stays together or breaks apart. Meanwhile Quicksilver approaches Rictor with an offer to restore the powers Rictor has lost. The price of the offer is a worry.

A second thread follows the team's long-running rivals, Singularity Investigations. A new assignment sends X-Factor across their path again, and the old conflict between the two agencies comes to a head.

The encounter brings out facts about who and what Jamie Madrox is, and they reach to the core of him. This is a superhero comic with a team-drama focus, tied to the Civil War crossover period. It collects issues #7 to #12 of X-Factor.

The question running through the volume is whether a man who fears choosing can hold his team together when the choice is his alone.