Flashforward issues are inherently flawed. Unless the flashfoward takes place relatively soon and part of the overall arc of the story, then it’s just a lot of fan service and conjecture.
Who knows what will really take place twenty years from now, both physically and in comic-book time. Characters might get killed off, canon relationships may change. Sure, we might cling to the fact that in Gambit’s 3rd series there is a flashforward were Gambit and Rogue are married… but if we’re honest, it may not actually ever happen.
That’s why issues like this just kinda set sour with me. Especially when the writer throws out names like Professor Xorn, Carmen Drake, Warren Worthington IV, Kubrick Quire, Charlene Xavier, Rose Logan, and Summer Grey (really? Summer Grey?). It’s just so annoying in its obvious pan-handling fan service.
Not to mention blantently trying to hint at something big happening but not saying what it was… of course he can’t tell the readers because the writer doesn’t know if in two years Marvel decides to have another House of M or Civil War moment. All this just takes away from the actual story here which might finally be something worthwhile out of the whole Dog Logan fiasco.
For a title that was pretty spectacular for a while there… I can’t help but wonder what happened.
X-Men: The (fan fic) Series 
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