Once again, never trust the cover of a comic book, they lie to you… blatantly.
Havok and young-Scott do meet up and it’s actually kind of touching. Scott doesn’t realize his brother is alive (though why no one told him in all this time or he didn’t hear his brother’s M-speech I have no idea), so it’s a really great reunion where, as Cap puts it, Havok gets to see Scott ‘at his best’. Unfortunately we don’t get a lot of character time here as we should, and that’s because Jean attacks Wanda.
Jean, who promised she wouldn’t go poking into other’s minds, gets a look into Wanda’s mind and sees House of M and the most crippling words ever uttered in an X-Men comic: ‘No More Mutants’. Again, why have these kids not heard of this yet? You think they would grab a history book or go on this new fangled thing called Wikipedia?
Anyway, the old team already see Wanda as a bad guy cause last they saw of her she was in the Brotherhood (they must not met Rogue yet), so it’s natural they would be a bit wary of her. For Jean to see the House of M events from Wanda’s own mind because she was apparently ‘screaming it’, you can kinda understand Jean’s reactions, even if it was played up a bit much. But what we really need to take from this issue is two things:
- Wanda was forgiven for ‘going insane’ and nearly destroying mutant kind. How does this parallel with Cyclops? People would argue that while Wanda was literally ‘insane’ over the loss of her child, Cyclops had a lot more control over his facilities, esp in how he treated things afterwards by going on his little Revolution kick. What I want is an issue that is nothing but Wanda and old Scott having a little chat…
- Wanda was ‘screaming’ the event in her mind. Obviously she is very much haunted by what she did. Her children died (and though they ‘came back’ she didn’t get to raise them). Her husband left her after she used him, killed him and brought him back (while insane). She has to believe that almost no one trusts her any more, even if they say they do. And this trust issue is dealt with organically.
The sad part is that this is all great stuff… but in the wrong comic. Remender will ignore all of this for his tripe in Uncanny Avengers.
Other high points: Mystique is up to something, as always. Lady Mastermind isn’t stupid. Creed kinda is but we knew that already.
And as was pointed out by greatrhodeybutt on tumblr:
and it’s real funny how the idea of the uncanny avengers is mutant/humans together. uniting mutants and humans. uniting avengers and x-men.
and cap is throwing lines around like “you’re an avenger. i trust you. but these x-men”
THANKS CAP
Yeah… pretty much that.
X-Men: The (fan fic) Series 
You know that’s a fair point, everyone is hating on Cyclops and what he did to professor X, but Wanda… Wanda is more or less forgiven? Err, so phoenix-induced insanity isn’t the same as insanity-insanity… Yeah, a bit double-standard-ish there. Still love the All New X-men though 🙂
Yeah. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that at lease Wanda brought those she killed back to life and didn’t go on a revolution… but at the same time, Scott was treated like a criminal from the moment he came back from being the Phoenix.
It’s a big double standard and at the moment I do like how All-New X-Men is treating it… but I kinda wish Marvel would figure it out already…