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
Pixie (X-Men) missions and teams and places her as one of the titles' primary magic users. She was first introduced as a student on the Paragons training squad at the Xavier Institute in "" #5 (November 2004), later joining the New X-Men team, and later graduating to the Uncanny X-Men team. Though only a side character in her initial appearances, she has since become a prominent character in various X-Men titles. Pixie first appeared in "" #5 (November 2004) and was created by Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir and Michael Ryan. Megan Gwynn is a Welsh teenager from a fictional mining town called