VisualFiction wrote:
Having only read the first eleven issues, I can't speak much to the question although I enjoyed most of the issues.

But it would be interesting to also know what people thought of the original X-Factor, maybe a comparison/contrast.

The original X-Factor was one of the great Marvel botch jobs. After going through great lengths to bring back Jean Grey and risk marginalizing one of the all-time great X-Men story lines, they unveil a hokey concept that has the original X-Men posing as anti-mutant hunters (yawn) in dreadful costumes and a first issue where they face the menace of... Rusty Collins! The original creative team gets canned after a handful of issues, replace by Louise Simonson who never really figured out what to do with the book. If it wasn't for the Walt Simonson art (which I agree wasn't among his best efforts), this title probably wouldn't have lasted as long as it did. I kind of feel bad for the original X-Men in that they essentially got fired twice, but as the original Stan & Jack stories showed (and to some extent the Neal Adams run), I don't think it's necessarily a fault in the characters, but in the creative/editorial decisions made around them.