This issue marks Chapter 2 of the Battle of the Atom crossover event. And yet again, Bendis retells the story from a different point of view, only this time he does it inside the same issue. While there is nothing inherently wrong with that concept, I just feel that if they are doing an event they should do more in the time they have rather than rehash a lot of it. The whole idea of Jean getting paranoid that they won’t let them read their minds and then asking Beast and Scott to leave could have taken up maybe three pages at most and still gotten the point across.
Regardless, a lot did happen here. We get introduced to the future team, which, annoys me but not so much because of who they are but because, in general, I hate this concept when used inside a medium like comics. It’s just conjecture and ‘whatever is useful for the moment’ because there is no way any of this will be canon in the future. In a year, new writers, new events, etc, will completely invalidate the whole thing. So, yeah, me not liking this is a personal pet peeve and I really shouldn’t hold it against Bendis, but it definitely makes it harder for me to enjoy the story. Like, if Charles has a grandson, presumably that means David and Ruth hook up and that’s a big YAY! since they are one of my OTP’s. But it’s annoying to know that a year from now, that OTP can be totally crushed cause the plot dictates it. That is the sound of my head hitting the desk.
As for everything else, some good points where made, like Jean going back is pretty much a death sentence for her. It’s a decent set up for much to come, a lot of sub-plots dancing around. Let’s see where this goes, and take most of it with a grain of salt.
X-Men: The (fan fic) Series 
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