That's my major issue with this comic. Everything happens so quickly, we barely get a sense of who these people are and why they're together. The best moments in the waning days of New X-Men featured the kids interacting. Anole hiding things from his friends and the kids freaking out about which would die next.

And now Cyclops is WILLINGLY putting them in harm's way. Sending them out to essentially fill the same role X-Force is. To go after those who will be coming after them. It makes sense to be more pro-active, but they're kids. The war just subsided for a short period of time, aren't there enough mutants in the world to fill a team of people as an army? Where's Shatterstar? Domino? The rest of the 198? They could easily fill these roles and then call this book New X-Men or X-Men with a Vengeance.

Putting these characters in harm's way takes away from the purpose of the X-Universe currently. There are no new mutants born every single day, pretty much any day. Shouldn't they be looking at the lives left as precious? Send Wolverine in to do the dirty work and let the rest play Wii.

There is some good with this issue though. It sets things up nicely for the future. We get a glimpse of a battle with Donald Pierce and we see Graymalkin (briefly, he's the gray dude with Blindfold at the beginning). We get a sense of where most of these characters have been (except Ink) and we feel the pain they've faced. We know that Wolfcub was stolen from his family and he wants revenge. We know that Blindfold is constantly haunted by visions and Dust is haunted by her past. We know this.

BUT: If Ink doesn't stop calling people cuz or cuzin, I'm going to jump through the comic and rip his head off myself. It's annoying and reminds me of my little brother, or any white kid trying to be something they're not. My only hope for that character is that he gets thrown into a situation where he has to grow up really fast.

Finally, the reveal at the end makes absolutely no sense, so the second issue will be purchased to hopefully clear that up. Why Cannonball would ever join a Brotherhood of Evil Mutants or just of Mutants makes zero sense. Dani Moonstar has no powers and she was on the team. Hopefully a clarification may come up there? Magma is a freak and has lost her mind on occasion, and Sunspot's father was a villain and he's running the Hellfire Club now anyways. But CANNONBALL? The kid from New Mutants and X-Force and X-Men? The kid destined to be the leader of the X-Men when he comes into his own as he is the only living External still left (is that still continuity?). Why would Sam suddenly go evil? EXPLAIN DAMMIT!