You could hear a pin drop after reading this dumb comic. Seriously. It's madness to think that this passes as an ongoing comic from the publishing titan Marvel Comics. Especially in the sight of much better comics that deserve to get the shelf space of crap like this (there are too many to list here).

So anyways, this issue finally kicks things into high gear. The 'Brotherhood' finds out, after 4 issues, it was just a nasty misunderstanding caused by Donald Pierce in the guise of Cyclops, making these idiots believe that they were X-Men and that Cyclops believed killing former students was the best method.

Dust gets broken and put back together after a lengthy explanation by Magma that if glass is melted at a high enough temperature it turns into sand, and the entire issue goes downhill fast. Seriously Gugg, did the reader need that explanation? Are the readers of this book that stupid?

If you plan on shilling out 3 dollars a month past this storyarc, you are. Here's everything that happens, they have a misunderstanding and fight, they learn about the misunderstanding thanks to the cool head of Magma (who was the hottest of hot heads and completely unstable ALL the time) and they split up to find the culprit.

But do we ever learn anything about the characters?

Nope. Graymalkin joins the team very quickly and they accept his help and run around in caves after liberating Moonstar and Blindfold and then Donald Pierce attacks. Of course he attacks the young, untrained X-Men, and one of them dies. Wolfcub gets cut, and when the team wants to kill Pierce for what he did, he tells them that's not what X-Men would do.

That's all well and good, except a few things come to mind: they aren't X-Men, Pierce is a cyborg so killing him would be completely ridiculous anyways, they're not X-men, and they accepted a moron with the ability to get tattoos and a completely never before seen character onto their team without figuring out who they were beforehand.

STUPID.

Guggenheim wastes the talents of Paquette on this book, who should move onto bigger and better things. Rockslide deserves better. And the X-fans promised new and different things after Messiah CompleX deserve better. We don't need another book where there is a misunderstanding, a fight, and then someone dies who no one really gives two shits about anyways.

We deserve better.