[Dr Kain]

I don't think I've mentioned this here, but I'm currently reading X of Swords and this arc is really testing my patience as I just don't get what the purpose of it is. The first quarter was spent having characters acquire these swords that was for apparently no god damn reason whatsoever. Like British Psylocke dies within 3 panels of her fight.

After that, the whole tournament has been full of randomized crap like weddings, arm wrestling matches, races, drinking contests, staring contests, etc. WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING??????? It's like someone at Marvel had just watched Dragonball Super and said, "Hey, this tournament arc sucks ass, I bet I can make something worse!" And then they went ahead and did it. So far I do not feel there is any payoff for reading through all of the Dawn of X books.

Whatever happened to the Brood? Magik, Cyclops, and a few others ended an X-Men issue in space facing the Brood and then they were back on Earth for this tournament thing. I have no idea what any of this has to do with Shaw's bootlegging business or the cultists who peeled off Domino's skin to infiltrate Krokoa. Or what it has to do with the Plants vs Aliens storyline.

This entire arc seems to only line up with Excalibur instead of the entire series of books and that makes it even more frustrating. There was no reason this needed to be an entire X-Men universe story and be 23 chapters because only half of the 19 I have read so far has any value to it.