I’m reading in the comments — 21 at the time I clicked “Write a Review” — that people can’t tell whether they should care.

Here’s who should care:  People who loved all those little character moments in the Claremont era.  If you liked the X-Women at the shopping mall?  Yes.  If you liked New Mutants, umm, 41?  Where Sam Guthrie went home for a trip?  Yes.  If you liked all the baseball games, or the two pages devoted to Warren and Candy going out on a date?  Or if you liked the fact that Kitty was going out to a Lila Cheney concert with Jessica Drew’s boyfriend on the night Freedom Force attacked —  If you like THAT stuff, this is for you.

This first issue is three short stories set within current X-Men canon but having almost nothing to do with the plot.  (The Iceman story may yet be plot related, hard to tell.)  But they are little character studies that let us, the readers, know how the X-Men feel about their lives now.  This is the little stuff that pulls the X-books into a shared world.

Cebulski knows his canon.  He uses it well.  The Bobby story is well done by Carey, and the Boom-Boom story is the first to mention Nextwave that I’ve seen.

This is fluff.  But it is well-intentioned, entertaining fluff.  If it were weightier, I would have made it my pick of the week.