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: Messiah Complex remain trapped in the future. Additionally, two of Madrox's duplicates were sent into future alternate realities. One duplicate traveled into the future with Miller and found himself in Bishop's future. The other duplicate returned as an X-Factor character with the ability to possess others using techno-organic abilities named Cortex. New X-Men (formerly New X-Men: Academy X): A new series, titled "Young X-Men", debuted in April 2008 with Marc Guggenheim as the writer and Yanick Paquette as the artist and will replace the "New X-Men" series, which was cancelled with issue #46 in January 2008. The team consisted of Dust, Rockslide,