David wrote a "MadroX" miniseries that year, whose success led to a relaunch of a monthly "X-Factor" volume 3 written by him. This was a revamped version of the title starring both Madrox and other members of the former "X-Factor" title that David had written in the early 1990s, now working as investigators in a detective agency of that name. David's work on the title garnered praise from Ain't it Cool News, and David has stated that the opt in/opt out policy and greater planning with which Marvel now executes crossover storylines has made his second stint on the title far easier. His decision to explicitly establish male characters Shatterstar and Rictor as sharing a sexual attraction to one another (a confirmation of clues that had been established in "X-Force" years earlier in issues such as "X-Force" #25, 34, 43, 49, 56 and "X-Force '99 Annual"), drew criticism from Shatterstar's co-creator, Rob Liefeld, though Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada supported David's story. David eventually won a 2011 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book for his work on the title.