We must really be Gambit starved. He was on 4 pages... Yeah, he was written fine, nothing special. I mean it was four pages, 12 panels (most just head shots). While it wasn't embarrassing at all, it was hardly worth putting him on the cover. I think we got more dialogue out of Red Skull-Gambit. The fact that he made the cover in this book and was so sparingly used just enforces my concern on how much panel time anyone is going to get with so many characters on the roster. I'm still not swung on this book. It's ok. That's all I can say about this book that's supposed to be the "grand return of Jean Grey". It's ok. The art is ok, the pacing in this issue was the best out of the 3 so far, but still just ok. For something that is pushed like Flagship title, it should be more than this.
I feel like we've seen the "pet sentinel" before... No, we have seen the pet sentinel before, and it wasn't even all that long ago. Did no one else get a little disturbed by the "intestines" part with Gabby... you know, the child? I get it. She's another mini-Wolverine and it was supposed to be cute and funny, but I'm not seeing that. Hopefully the reason for their being so many characters in this book is so that eventually we get a plot that has several of the members leave... such as the 2+ children. Laura gets a pass due to her experience. She can be on any X-Men team. All that scene did for me was question Jean and Nightcrawler's mindset to have children along for this ride. There's a difference between a book where the kids get into sticky situations (Gen-X, Champions, Avengers Academy etc) that turn to "life and death" and adult characters putting children in levels of danger best left for vets. Wasn't that the ENTIRE cause of Schism and the reason Wolverine kicked Laura off of his X-Force team?
I get the purpose of narration, but after all this time and all the techno-paths the X-Men have encountered, Jean is surprised by Trinary being able to control a Sentinel? Out of anyone on the X-Men, Jean should be the hardest to impress. When I read some of your reactions I was expecting a bit more... but now I'm on the verge of taking this off of my pull-list.