As for x-forever… I’m somewhat miffed by this whole age is bad for mutants problem. Firstly, I feel that the x-books have been somewhat littered with older mutants. Some of them claremont creations, most not. His big relevation that mutants don’t age well seems very out of place in a greater x-continuity that ends at x-men #3 and resumes at x-forever #1. The hope was that claremont’s world would be consistant through these books. The problem with that thought is that it’s immediately proven not to be the case with the exclusion from the series of half the characters featured in x-men #3. Claremont has openly said that he will not incorperate or acknowlage the work of other writers in his x-forever run… I thought that meant just for books that were released after he left.

Well, the second problem is that we are now confronted with the ugly and disturbing process of wondering how old the x-men are. This is something marvel seems to really enjoy not addressing, since a large portion of their characters originated as teenagers in the 50s/60s. Numerous old x-men books have angel, iceman and beast hanging out in greenwich village beat poetry cafes. Even if we ignore the old stuff, just looking at x-factor, scott is old enough to have a son and x-wife. Should we assume that all mutants older than scott are at risk?