The issue opens showing the Teen Jean (as I've seen her called on the internet now) wearing her classic (2nd) Marvel Girl costume. I honestly think it looks pretty good in the modern art style, or at least much better than it looked back then if not a bit simple. She also points out that she is telepathic to beast and he realizes that she didn't gain that ability for a year in the original timeline (according to Wikipedia, the specific issue was Uncanny X-men #43, 1968).
How is she talking to beast? Well she’s using telepathy to talk to him inside his mind while he is in treatment. That probably explains the costume, since beast mentioned it was his favorite.
At this time the human-looking younger beast enters and argues with himself before we cut back out to the hospital room. They pull a Reed Richards (collaborating with alternate versions of yourself, like the council of reeds) comparing mental notes and telling everyone to leave.
Meanwhile, we rejoin Ben (he found out he was a mutant at the mutant rally that present Scott went to) leaving his school and meeting cyclops outside. I think this is the third new-mutant (at least for this series) or something like that. However, Ben wants nothing to do with cyke and ignores him. So for reference we have Chris (with the healing power), Eva (with the time power), and now Ben (who has a few powers, which don’t seem that useful. Apparently he can steal someone’s appearance or mimic someone’s appearance, fusing it with his. That just seems like a worse version of shape-shifting. Plus later he also gets pheromone boosting powers...which must be some “secondary mutation”. For example, he mimics Scott’s eyeglasses by turning his eyes red.) Scott points out that he isn't fully shape-shifting, but he can mimic parts of people (and apparently voices too, and it’s pretty much confirmed that he can’t mimic powers like Morph).
Anyway, point is that his power is pretty much minor-shape shifting, and it sucks. However, cyclops says that his power might be similar to Darwin’s in that he can shape-shift into things in his environment...which might be cool! Scott takes him to the New Xavier School, which magneto is building inside of the old facility. This opened the door for Uncanny x-men #1 (vol.3)
We return to beast, who re-explains his reason for bringing them back...since jean keeps saying he shouldn't have. I really like how the original x-men get to meet the newer x-men like Kitty and ect. that weren't in the original line-up.
Jean :”How did I die?” Beast: “Which time?”
Beast then does a sort of “mind meld” to show the new jean her old past (or is it the old jean’s new past...whatever...it’s confusing). I really like these full page flashback panels are awesome. For reference, there were also flashbacks like this for Hulk and Peter Quill (in guardians) as far as I know. This freaks jean out and she starts blowing up the lab.
She goes outside for some air and we join the old x-men outside the school.
Wolverine says he should kill the past cyclops right now so that he doesn't kill Charles now. Wolverine, the master of bad time travel, says this. Nice job in Age of Ultron dude. The reason this won’t work is because THIS Scott is taken from another universe/timeline.
Cyclops: “I can’t believe you are an x-man.”
Cyclops is kinda right, all Wolverine wants to do is kill people most of the time.
Beast arrives to break things up, and shows off his new blue gorilla form. So he went from Cat in new x-men to Ape in all new x-men :).
Jean tells the x-men that they are going to stay in the past, and Warren (angel) continues to cause friction within the team. He made some subtle comments before, but now he directly voted to leave. Also, Jean remembers how close she was to wolverine and now decided she wants to avoid both versions of cyclops. Kitty also takes command over the new group, promising she will keep them safe.
I think this issue had a lot of moments that really shocked me, the series is doing a great job of loading on twists and interesting plots for the most part. So for me, this issue is pretty much a 9.5/10. The art is still very solid and tons of things are packed into this issue. It’s good since now current Scott has his room to grow in his own book while shifting more focus to the original x-men. The original team still doesn't fit in very well, but are proving themselves useful. I’m starting to like this series more and more, so I’m hoping it doesn't get any worse.
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