Another empty, useless entry in Bendis's ultimately empty, useless X-Men run. The issues in this volume barely deserves to be collected as a complete book. Besides one standalone story (that's a complete stall and waste of time), each of these is a disconnected, short-run story that doesn't even resolve within this collection. There are two issues from the terrible Black Vortex story, which will make zero sense unless you're reading that crossover in order. Then the volume ends with something that SEEMS like a cliffhanger, but in fact is just a failure to resolve anything, particularly since the "resolution" is in Uncanny X-Men, Volume 6. I put resolution in quotes there because, well, nothing in Bendis's entire X-Men run resolves in any satisfying way, so even if you do bother to read that book, it won't matter. 
 This has a been a wildly squandered opportunity basically from the get-go, and has made me decide not to read anything new by Bendis anymore. I'll continue with Guardians of the Galaxy in hopes it picks up, but that's likely the last of his work I'll read. It's sad, because his New Avengers and Daredevil runs were fantastic, and House of M is probably still my favorite Marvel crossover ever. But blown premise after blown premise over the past 5 or so years have really made me realize, he's either overworked, not even trying anymore, or both.