X-Factor #248 (HERE BE SPOILERS!)

Huh.  I had some problems with this issue because I honestly couldn't remember the battle in Kansas that seems to have set up the conflict in this issue.  But, apparently, Shatterstar killed a demon in Kansas, whose sister is Vera, who shot Pip in issue #246.  I'm not really sure though if Vera and her fellow demons, called the Warders, are going after X-Factor just for killing her sister or if they were planning on ending the world anyway (apparently their job) and figured that they might as well take out X-Factor first.  The taxi-driver demon seems to imply the latter.  But, I don't think that the Warders are connected to the other threats out there, like the Isolationist or whoever killed the X-Ceptionals in Seattle.  It's all a little confusing, honestly.  Also, it wasn't help by some truly bad art that it made difficult to tell what the characters were doing.  It was all a rare miss for this series, to be honest.