So I was reading a blog by Jordama and his rant about Images from the forever universe popping up in 616 and it got me to thinking as you know X-Men Forever is the spin-off of X-Men vol.2 after Asteroid M collapses and Cortez escapes written by the "great" Chris Claremont, it's like a timeline tangent or a glorified What-If comic. Now there are 2 other comics in the forever series X-Factor and New Mutants I really didn't follow either comic way back when so I can't comment too much on that all I know is it's being written by the series' former writers, in no way are either one connected to the other, and they are all where most of the writers left off. Now I've picked up 6 or 7 of X-Men Forever because it got interesting for a minute and I was looking for a 90's Rogue fix it would be on my next imaginary pull list then things got terrible, then great, then weird. My opinion of this book has rised and wained first its good to have stories of early X-Men caliber although Claremont's heavy handed writing is off putting and it's good for them to focus on most of the original team but so many fan favorites are written off (Psylocke's deported, Colossus is back in russia not sure if he stayed, and Jubilee is usually mentioned as off panel). Just think of the comic as The X-Men animated series just replace Wolverine with Nightcrawler and Jubilee with a spunkier and specific narrator Kitty. 
  Everytime I think of picking up I stop because it won't make any sense I always get the feeling it will be explained in the long run but it's just really hard to follow. From Jean sleeping with Beast, Scott and his secret family, the revealation that they would die from burnout of they're powers, to Rogue and Nightcrawlers powerswitch (which is where I left off) and so much else.This series is like he's trying so hard to seperate himself from his original story so he's throwing everything that he can in and knowing no one can call him on it. Ok this isn't a review of the series but an opinion why in the world did this series get made I know you want to relive the glory days but if you want to live so bad why'd you leave in the first place? it's like TV 101 he see's someone else enjoying the book more then he did so he wants it back and does it so arrogantly. Not to mention the way he's putting so many of his characters through these trials it's like dude what are you trying to tell us. In all I don't know what to think of this series what role does it play why pick it up; he doesn't bring in too many familiar faces, he's already stated these are the stories he wanted to tell but these stories seem so out there just to say this is "how i wanted the excalibur members to come back" or "this is what I really wanted to do with Psylocke". He's already stated he's not going back through his drafts of old X-Men stories so really is he just throwing things at the wall and seeing what outlandish thing sticks,  thats why I come to you the readers what do you think about this series or any of the Forever series for that matter, what do you get out of it, what keeps you going back or not liking it and before you answer hear this rumor: Early on during the Forever craze Chuck Austen was consdering writing an Uncanny X-Men forever...