This is more like it. Kitty finally takes Jean to task for messing with people's minds, giving her a stern talking-to. There are a lot of neat little personal interactions, which is an area Bendis excels in but hasn't been nailing in these books until now.

Chief among those interactions is the "reunion" between original Cyclops and his younger brother Havok. Teenage Scott and now 30-something Alex get to have a moment that they've never really had before, thanks to the screwiness of time travel. There's also a nice moment between Jean and Old Hank and then Jean and Young Hank, which probably changes more things in the X-Men than any of their other adventures in the future could.

The art by Immonen is spectacular yet again, keeping multiple actions clear in each panel while maintaining the flow of the story. David Lafuente's pencilling in the last issue is more cartoony, but it suits the lighter nature of that decompression story perfectly. As Scott and Bobby go to town to lighten up and Jean and Hank share secrets, it feels like classic X-Men from the Claremont/Byrne era in the 1970s: world-shaking action followed by some downtime with joking and intense teenage feelings.

Yeah, this is the stuff.