I can’t keep doing this to myself.

I can’t keep reading, month in and month out, a book that so horribly maligns my favorite character, Cyclops.

Here is an actual line of narration from this issue, from Wolverine’s point of view:  “Summers.  He’s so hardcore lately, I’m starting to feel inadequate.”

I don’t want to sound like That Fan.  But there is something seriously wrong with a book that consistently makes Wolverine the paragon of all that is moral and right, in opposition to some twisted, “hardcore” version of the X-Men’s most upstanding, rule-oriented member.  There is something seriously wrong with a book that replaces interesting plot and characterization with senseless slaughter of characters who don’t even get to have a line before they’re murdered.  There is something seriously wrong with a book in which supposedly heroic characters consider the murder of children to be a necessary sacrifice.  And hanging a lampshade on the massive act of mischaracterization, as that line of narration does, doesn’t help.

I’ve had issues with Kyle and Yost’s teenager-slaughtering ways since the earliest days of their New X-Men run, but with X-Force they’ve moved into a territory beyond all reason.  This is not my Cyclops, these are not my X-Men, and I don’t care how much impact this book has on the greater X-Men universe.  I just can’t read this anymore.