Wolverine and the X-Men #42 (HERE BE SPOILERS!)

This issue is unfortunately similar to quite a few other Marvel titles lately, as we have the third or fourth or umpteenth wave of "All-New Marvel NOW! Forever" forced onto us.  Aaron essentially just abandons the book by randomly graduating people.  It was never really clear how old the various characters were, but, based on the advertisements for the next "season" of this title, it seems that Aaron just graduated the characters that the next creative team will need.  In fact, the only characters' ages that we get established here are Idie and Quentin's, with Aaron revealing that they're going to be sophomores.  However, Quentin is graduated anyway, making the whole premise even more ridiculous.

Moreover, we get some storylines more tidily resolved than the should be.  Idie has magically gotten passed her moral dilemma over being a mutant and Quentin faux-laments the fact that he's become a hero.  Sure, both made progress during the Savage Land arc, but I actually found myself hoping that Quentin would really burn down the School to make it all a little less saccharine.  Moreover, we have to sit through the present-day story being spliced with yet another iteration of the X-Men's future.  By the end, I was just waiting for us to get to the inevitable re-boot and hoping that the bamfs would share some of their whiskey.

** (two of five stars)