Also I like how Namor is standing next to the Avengers and Jean Grey and Storm and this is like their first encounter since that whole P5 thing. However, the annual wanted to address the Inhumans rather then the giant elephant in the room.
what happened to Cassandra Nova?
Bunn's Blue stories operate more like original X-Factor where they ignore what the other X-Teams are doing. That book frees up Magneto, Emma, Havok and Polaris for their other appearances.
Gugg's Gold sets up Hammer Time Storm which gets ignored universally.
Red is horrid:
- ignores Hammer time AND Coates' Storm.
- Remy is still on Earth
- Good Namor
- Laura is still Wolverine
- ignores Hunt and Return of Howlett
- etc.
Red is set before Remy goes to space, Namor turns heel, Laura gave up the Wolverine name, and the events of Hunt and Return (also I'd say it's more accurate to say that Hunt and Return ignores everything else, INCLUDING EACH OTHER because no one knows what the FRELL is going on with all the contradictory Logan crap).
As for Hammer Time, meh.
One big thing is that Xavier is back and he hasn't been in ANYTHING other than an annual and the Xoffices "erased" him from memory.
There is a real serious "these stories take place and then have zero impact" mentality going on here.
1) I feel like everyone should forget hammertime, and X-Men Pyrite, ever existed. I call it Pyrite as it is indeed "fool's Gold".
2) So when exactly does Remy and Anna head to space for their honeymoon? None of this, of course, makes sense timing wise. So is Namor not a villain in Avengers yet? Did Kitty and Colossus not have the wedding fiasco yet, since they haven't interacted from that point until Astonishing end (which is after Extermination)? But if not then how is Rachel and Kurt's romance in the past? And is this how OML gets pulled back to the mansion for Extermination? My head is swirling which the inconsistencies galore in this line.
Red dances between the raindrops of continuity.