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Logged in at work to say exactly the same thing! This arc shows him as the master tactician and thinker he should always be depicted as... one step ahead of the game, and masterfully so.

This era of X-Men really represented, at least to me, how the series could and should have evolved post-Claremont, post-Lobdell, post-Morrison and post-Whedon. Yes, even post M-Day. Utopia was a good idea, the move to San Francisco was a good idea, "Messiah Complex" was a strong crossover, losing Charles Xavier was a good idea, Scott and Emma had a well-written love story and dynamic (their Savage Land holiday remains one of my favourite single issues), having Scott and Logan demonstrably on the same page was a good idea...

... and then "Schism" came along and borked the whole thing because Civil War had done *so* well for Marvel. Sigh.

My X-collection actually stops with the final issue pre-"Schism" with all the Breakworld stuff resolved. Because what came after was, for me, just ugh.

Poor Scott.