For those who have never heard of Jamie Madrox (much like myself before reading the series) he is the Multiple Man. A mutant capable of creating an almost limitless number of duplicates of himself. Sounds like an awesome power, doesn’t it? Well, it comes with a catch. He can’t control it. It simply happens when his body receives some kind of reasonable impact. It can be as simple as being punched or hitting a wall. It also doesn’t help that each of these duplicates contain different segments of Jamie’s personality, which generally leads to chaos and arguments ensuing as he fights with himself (literally) to get jobs done.
After the semi-disbandment of X-Factor (the sister group to the X-Men), around the time of the events of House of M, Jamie Madrox decides to start up a private detective business in the aptly named Mutant Town (a place of refuge for some of the few remaining mutants after Scarlett Witch’s wish). He, along with his former X-Factor team-mates, Wolfsbane and Strong Guy, takes on all manner of cases. Nothing’s too big and nothing's too small, as long as it pays the bills.