Agreed. The whole series felt very loosey-goosey and no one cared that everyone was dying around them. I do think it was one of those things where editorial was like "let's make sure everyone is put through the ringer so Hickman can fix everything in bold sweeping strokes."
Kwannon got knifed and never showed up either. I'm not sure why Vanisher melted.
"Cable was right!"
And yet, electrocution, immediately following the threat of using the device to make him human instead of killing him, aren't the same as death. Electrocution isn't the same as being turned into a pile of goo, and absence in comics has never meant dead.
Saying "he could've died," is reasonable, insisting he did even though it's not the only interpretation, isn't supporting by the text, and the author also confirmed it wasn't meant to be a death, it seems like he isn't "only alive on the twitterverse" as much as "only dead to a couple of fans."
Yeah, I read a review the other day on a website that claimed Kwannon was killed in Uncanny when she's stabbed in the shoulder, and then they make a point of saying she'd left when they weren't watching, implying escape, not death.
Rosenberg killed so many X-Men in Uncanny, but people want to pin even more deaths on that run than what took place.
All the cool kids were dying, I assumed Triage was just jumping on the bandwagon.
He was a black man in an X-Men comic, he never stood a chance