Feeling like ranting, today.

I just read Extraordinary X-men, issue 1. I'm seriously pissed-off at Marvel comics, today...
What the hell are they doing?!!! 

SPOILER ALERT!!!!

Okay, you've been warned. 

Now, let me explain. I only cast fleeting glances on regular comic book series, these days, for lack of budget, time and also because the direction taken by both DC and Marvel does tend to antagonize me, these days.
So, once in a while, I pick an issue, to get back in the loop, to see where the industry is going... And I have to say, lately, each I did so, I ended up putting it down, brace myself and wait for the facepalm.
This last one was no exception. I did look at the state of affairs in Marvel for their galactic event of Secret Wars. I admit I still don't exactly understand what it is all about, but hey, I didn't understand DC's Final Crisis either, so I must be stupid, there. 

But I thought I would take the jump and see where the world of the X-men is AFTER the Secret Wars. And... I ended in a mess. WTF is going on? Dying mutants, sterile mutants? A teenage Jean Grey that has given up on heroics altogether after (and I quote) 'what happened with Cyclops'? I mean, I know what the teenage X-men are doing there, despite all the evidence of impossibility of the thing. But I saw Jean being the most dedicated of the lot, and she's given up, and things have gotten so bad that she refers to Scott Summers as 'Cyclops'? Come on! What can possibly happen in Uncanny X-men 600 that screws up things that royally?!! 

I read the articles on Internet, I know that in the Secret Wars event, Cyclops (the adult version... for f*#!'s sake, Marvel has come to the point where there is a teenage AND an adult version of Cyclops at the same time!... never mind) gets his neck snapped, but for the love of Pete, what could possibly happen to the teenage version, whom Jean is, apparently, at least a little in love with? Where is he? And what could lead her to refer to him as 'Cyclops'... Something just doesn't compute up there, for me. 

Oh, and sure, at the end of issue 1, who gets to show up but the freaking Wolverine?!!! The Wolverine, who was supposed to STAY DEAD, for once. So yeah, Marvel has done it again... let's screw up Cyclops and bring in Wolverine! Sure, they can argue that it's Old Man Logan from an alternate timeline, but said timeline should be gone, since the actual Wolverine is DEAD. But, since Space-time continuum is apparently Marvel's bitch... Why shouldn't they do it?

So yeah, welcome to a world of the X-men, where there is no Cyclops, where Jean Grey is a teenager that is here in violation of the rules of Space and time, putting the whole of creation at risk, but never mind. And there is an old grizzled Wolverine clawing at Sentinels again. Basically, your line-up is made up of characters that can only be there temporarily, or else the universe will go tits up. We're supposed to like that team? We're supposed to continue to enjoy a series that hammers in each time that no matter what the X-men try, things will always get worse? Humanity will go prejudiced to bigotted, from bigotted to hateful and from hateful to full-on crazy against mutants. And in the meantime, characters you loved and enjoyed will either die, turn evil, turn crazy, die, try to save the world and screw up, or die. I realise I said 'die' three times, but that's the way Marvel feels, these days. Who in the original X-men line-up hasn't been killed off once already?
 
Marvel comics, I hate you, right now.