Well, I sure botched calling the spoilers incorrect. Oh well. That said, the issue did a way better job than the persons who summarized the early spoilers. Get some writing skills, chumps. Forward that to the spoiler peoples.
Yes, I've been out of the loop for a few days. Got my comics late and stayed away from this until I read the issue.
I'll possibly be stepping on points made by other people, as I haven't read all the other posts yet, since there's a few pages. I'll address individual posts as I go through them, possibly and probably.
So. Bachalo screwed up Bishop's hand, the one attached to the arm that Predator X ripped off. Haha, rocks so much.
Go Bachalo, you pwnsome artist you!
I agree with Spec, above. I don't think there's been any genuine evidence that Jean Grey reborn is the baby in question. There's some circumstantial evidence, sure, and I won't be surprised if it is the case (because this is COMICS), since it makes some amount of sense in a way, but it's like saying that Jon Snow is the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. I'm sure someone will get that reference.
I'm not sold that Xavier is necessarily clinically dead. The final page promo for Legacy leaves me with that thought.
Furthermore, I don't think Cyclops has disbanded the X-Men so much as the "X-Men," that is, the literal so much as the figurative. As he states, it was all Xavier's dream - and the X-Men, as they were structured and intended for use, were the physical embodiment of Xavier's dream. That dream was Xavier's, and as stated, dies with Xavier.
Was this always the case? No. Do I think this is Cyclops throwing another hissyfit over Xavier supposedly dying? No, I do not.
Again, literal vs. figurative. He's putting an end to the figurative X-Men that were Xavier's dream. Looking at Cyclops through Messiah Complex, he's made the moves to take up the leadership position as he should have done some time ago. He made the forces his own, moved the pieces himself. He went from being Xavier's second to being the general. And I think he knows very well that he crossed a line during all of it.
Cyclops might have grown up in Xavier's shadow, but he isn't Xavier. Xavier might have trained him to think like him, but Cyclops is not Xavier. When the time came, he had to make the tough choices, and they clearly were not the same choices Xavier would have made (well, supposedly - it's real easy to throw stones after the fact, as Xavier was doing).
Cyclops has a hand in X-Force. I'm sure he'll have a hand in mutant affairs in Uncanny. Look at the promo for Young X-Men at the end of X-Men 207. Cyclops puts their team together.
So, again, literal vs. figurative. The literal X-Men are not disbanded and no more. Rather, they are not a collective embodiment for Xavier's dream any longer. Cyclops still has the resources in his mutant troops, and will still employ and use those resources. It's just a different kind of situation now.
And I like that. Assuming it lives up to that, it'll have been a really smart and good thing on the part of the writers.
Oh, and Xavier is so manipulative. He helps Cable get the baby, hands her over to Cable, and when he sees that Cyclops is confronting Cable, once again proves that he's such a good little manipulator by praising Cyclops as the leader of the X-Men, all but saying he was wrong, and telling Cable to hand the baby over. Pfft. Eat bullet, Chuckyboy.
Def intentional
