Meh. Marvel doomed this issue by over-hyping it as the "Monumental 25th Issue, Featuring the Greatest Artist Roster Ever Assembled!" You might have a lot of great artists, but it doesn't mean you have a great issue, unfortunately.
The story revolves around a super-judgy Watcher lecturing Hank McCoy on the various timelines that he destroyed by bringing the original X-Men into the present. However, the problem with that approach is that the Watcher doesn't seem to acknowledge that Hank created a similar (if not equal, necessarily) number of new timelines. I mean, he might actually concede that (though I'm not clear), but, if he did, he seems to imply that they're all somehow unhappy timelines. Yeah, I don't know. As usual, with time-travel stories, it doesn't make a lot of sense. I'm not saying that some of the futures weren't fascinating, such as the one where Jean turns into a despot because she didn't have a loving mentor like Charles Xavier. (The Colossus/Kitty story was hilarious.) But, since it all deals with hypotheticals from an admittedly biased narrator, who tells Hank that he disgusts him, again, it's just hard to take any of it too seriously. It just felt like an oversized "What If?" issue.
Also, in terms of the over-hyping, it didn't help that it's a monumental case of pet peeve #2, since the original X-Men hardly play a role in the issue, except as occasionally a source of discussion for the Watcher and Hank.
** (two of five stars)
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