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Having just finished the X 'The End' series (eighteen issues!) and actually enjoying large chunks of it and the actual end to the thing, I wonder what other people thought of it. Claremont seemed to have an actual interest in using everybody else's X-contributions, which was kinda surprising. There's Morrison stuff all over, and he demonstrates that he understood the stuff with Cassie Nova better than whoever it was wrote the thing where Beast and Cyclops fight a basement robot and Cassie goes missing. Because, um, there's Stuff. Even though Stuff was Ernst and Ernst is nowhere to be seen.
But it did surprise me to see Scott and Emma together in the future, and the new(er) Shiar Superguardians (even that name) and such. And, y'know, the Liefield X-Force, essentially intact.
And it boils down to the whole X-Men idea taking up too much time, energy, and being utterly against what they're ostensibly trying to always achieve. The future is not to be made great by beating the snot out of your cousin and then getting your house blown up every so often. The future, apparently, is families, and lesbians. Seriously, everyone other than X-Force either has one to four kids, or they're lifemates, soulmates, or just kinda overly smiley-dopey fond of another woman. Or, they're Iceman, but hey, you can't fault Claremont for trying. I mean, I think that's a serious thing to say about the future, which other X-writers have been too timid to cover: in the future, men have to spawn children, or the women will all leave and pine for each other. And then die.
Morrison comes in as the biggest provider of non-Claremont fodder, though. Scott and Emma. The Sentinel-raptors. Cassie Nova. X-Corp (Mumbai). Feral on the heroic side. Dust. Celeste, Phoebe, and they're unnamed sister who people keep calling Mindee even though they ought to know better. And as a very odd but lovely bonus, X-23's Masterminds-induced vision is a dream of having a barbecue with Fantomex.
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