Wolverine and the X-Men #4 (HERE BE SPOILERS!)

As expected, Latour still has us wandering through the desert with no hope of water.  He seems more focused on peppering this issue with similarly bad lines ("50 Shades of Jean Grey?"  Really?) than telling an actual story.

We learn that Younge has a sword called the Phoenix Blade that can absorb the Phoenix's energy.  But, it's unclear if it's the same one that Korvus used to wield, since I'm pretty sure that one used the power of the Phoenix, not absorbed it.  If I had to extrapolate from this revelation, I'd say that Younge wants Quentin to become the Phoenix so that he can absorb his energy.  But, why would he have to come to the past to do that?  Couldn't he have done that in his present, when Quentin already was the Phoenix?  Did Quentin die in his confrontation with Evan, so it wasn't an option?  As Quentin himself says, why are Faithful John and Young in the present if Quentin does what they say and kills Evan at some point in the future?  Latour isn't unfurling the mystery the way that Aaron is in "Original Sin:"  instead of answering some questions only to raise other ones, we still have the same ones that we had in the first issue.

I'm not sure how many more issues that I've got on this train.  I'm not that interested in yet another story about the X-Men's future (particularly when it's less interesting than the one that Bendis is telling in "All-New X-Men"), but I'm particularly not interested in one that doesn't actually progress.

** (two of five stars)