X-Men: The End praised the scenes featuring Storm as the most compelling, despite not having been a particularly avid fan of that character, and the artwork, saying that the pencils, coloring and storytelling were "all on target", but criticized other aspects of the book, including the characterization, the pacing of the action scenes, and the story, which he felt was neither original nor complete, lacked character insight, and did not serve as a worthy finale to the X-Men. According to one interview with Chris Claremont, "GeNext" is supposed to take place 10 years after the events of "X-Men: The End", although as the
X-Men Forever began its run on June 10, 2009. It ran semimonthly as a regular title, set in an alternate continuity of the Marvel Universe. This second series is unrelated to the earlier series by the same name. The series, written by veteran "X-Men" author Chris Claremont, was originally advertised as a continuation of the storylines he intended for "Uncanny X-Men" and "X-Men" in 1991, but which never saw print because of his resignation from the title and Marvel Comics following "X-Men" #3. Despite the original billing as what "would have been written" by Claremont had he never left, the series quickly