HUGE CONTENT WARNING FOR ISSUE #17 (THE FIRST IN THIS COLLECTION) for a main character's death that is an obvious and blatant rip off of the "trans panic defense" where cis people (usually men) murder trans people (usually trans women) after finding out someone they were attracted to is trans. The "trans panic defense" is then -- successfully and legally in most places in the Western world -- used as a justification for the murder in court and as a reason for acquittal. Proceed with caution. It's very graphic and way too close to a reality many of us dread.

This was... Not Good. Rosenberg has taken the "mutant metaphor" too far and basically just taken events straight from the headlines of 2016-2017 and replaced all IRL marginalised groups with mutants. It's kinda lazy, and reads as (as a good friend called it) torture porn.

And then they do a big Deus Ex Machina, Dani yells at Scott about it in private, and then 2 pages later he gets to be the big hero and reverse it in front of everyone? No thanks. Dani deserved better. So did basically every character in this book. ( )

Really not happy about the number of X-Men that die in this issue. Alex? Really? He's the better Summers brother. I want him back. And Jamie.
And it pisses me off to find out that everything was Emma manipulating things again. Haven't we already had this storyline. At least I now know Anole didn't betray the mutants of his own free will.

Oh, and while I'm in full on rage mode, WTF is with Jean striding out and planting one on Cyke. Ever heard of consent, bitch. Good God, I hate her so much.