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 ReLoad sentient being, Rogue finally learning her real name, Kitty Pryde returned to the X-Men full-time, Cyclops and Emma Frost became co-headmasters of the school and thus co-leaders of the X-Men, Colossus and Psylocke were both resurrected, Professor X left the X-Men in hopes of rebuilding Genosha alongside Magneto, the appearance of the real Xorn, the introduction of S.W.O.R.D., and X-23 officially joins the X-Men. "Astonishing X-Men": volume 3, #1"Cable & Deadpool": volume 1, #1"": volume 1, #1"Excalibur": volume 3, #1"Gambit": volume 2, #1"Madrox": volume 1, #1"Jubilee": volume 1, #1"New X-Men": volume 2, #1"Nightcrawler": volume 3: #1"Rogue": volume 3, #1"Uncanny X-Men":