I can say, in all honesty, that I have no idea what in Hell happened in this issue.
I've read this story from the beginning. I haven't liked it, but I've read it and I've paid as close of attention as I could muster. Basically, all this issue had to do was explain why future Quentin was manipulating the past to eliminate Evan and who Faithful John was. Somehow, it accomplish neither goal.
First, Quentin did defeat Evan in the future, but, for some reason, he looked in the past and, upon seeing young Quentin and/or young Idie, decided that he also had to defeat Evan in the past. To that end, he manipulated Faithful John and Edan Younge to return to the past to attack him. But, we never learn why seeing Quentin and/or Idie in the past inspired him to defeat Evan in the past. Wasn't it better for him to get the win in the future, since, as he said, it was the thing that redeemed him in the eyes of the other X-Men? We also don't know why Evan turned against the X-Men in the future, since future Quentin actually makes it seem like future Evan was the more successful X-Man until his fall.
Moreover, Latour also never tell us who Faithful John is; we only know what we already knew, that he wanted revenge on Evan for his ruined world. However, since his world is presumably different from future Quentin's world (since Quentin's wasn't destroyed), it would also have been nice to discover how Quentin found him. Latour also fails to mention how Edan managed to create a billion-dollar corporation in the past from scratch with no one noticing.
In fact, it's even worse that all that. At some point, future Quentin tells present Quentin that he did it all to "save them from us." But, why would "they" need to be saved if future Quentin defeats Apocalypse? Isn't that a good thing?
[Sigh.] If it's not clear, I'm done with this series, making it series #2 that Jason Latour has forced me to drop.
* (one of five stars)
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