X-Factor #256 (HERE BE SPOILERS!)

OK, so, Rictor and Shatterstar clearly aren't dead, which leads me to believe that Tier also isn't dead.  In fact, when you add the five Hell Lords, Madrox, and Monet to the list, this arc had a number of people die who didn't actually die.  Maybe it's why it felt so meh.  Despite the stakes seemingly being really high (you know, like, the fate of the world), they wound up being fairly low.  Guido snaps his fingers and essentially we're exactly where we were when we started this arc.  As a result, we can hopefully forget that it ever happened and just return to regularly scheduled programming.