Parting Shot: Jean Grey School for Higher Learning Faculty and Staff Chart

Holy crap, Kid Omega is back?

I picked up both issues, and I was a bit disappointed with Wolverine and the X-Men. Maybe it's because it's a complete "intro" issue, but it was pretty boring. Wolverine's nearly immediate second-guessing made me think that his oh-so-strong convictions were a bunch of bull compared to portraying some light comedy. Uncanny was the more interesting of the two.


I'm one of those who finds Wolverine completely out of character, mostly reenforced by his speech to Armor in Astonishing X-Men on the Breakworld (be a soldier or don't, but people are going to try to kill you either way). I also find it ironic that he has these ideals while naming the school the Jean Grey School, considering that in New X-Men, Jean was in a similar situation with the U-Men and rounded up the students to help her fight them (even though she still did most of the work).

I also think Hank's "zingers" against Scott are far from justified. He tries to make this point that he suffered oh-so-much while Scott just sat there and never takes a hit, but if anything, Beast is the one who sits on his laurels while Scott takes the bullets. He's the one who saved Nate during The Twelve, sacrificing himself, and he purposefully killed himself in space only to be purposefully resurrected and tortured so that the mission would succeed in Astonishing X-Men. Beast got tortured once, and he's suddenly all self-righteous and butthurt?

Mercury!

Who the hell would turn their kid over to a school where the the guy in charge has a body count that rivals a small war and the staff includes at least four former criminals?

Hooray! Chamber!! Love that guy.

An X-book where Doop teaches at-risk young mutants in the vein of "Dangerous Minds". I'm ready for it.

So what's going to happen to X-Force? It was kind of the best of the X-titles before their little schism. What the dilli-o?

Poor Lockheed... everyone seems to have forgotten that he's teaching a class too! He should be listed as faculty!

Hey, Marvel! Your sliding timescale has just become a contiguous block of goo. You might want to look into that.

It's very creepy how Cipher, who was once kind of dated Kitty Pryde when they were both 15, is now a student at the school where she's the headmistress. I know he died and came back, so he might be physically younger now, but still...

It's actually a little sad to see characters that readers would probably consider to have 'graduated' making up the student body, some of them having been around since the early 1980's. And in terms of each character's actual on-panel experience in the field, it looks even weirder and more confusing. I think there are members of the student body who have seen more on panel action than many members of the faculty.

So what happened to Elixir?