As much as I wanted to see the Guard get beat, it's nice to see that they're not villains, just ethical beings with their own agenda.

My thoughts - Scott does have a thing for red heads doesn't he?  Love Wanda being back to her old self where she changed probabilities instead of doing whatever the writer wanted her to do at that moment.  The face on the last Magneto panel fit the old pre-New X-Men look perfectly.  A casual 'I want to rule the world - duh, anyone with half a brain should know this' type of look.  A Magneto who wants to run everything for his people, but wouldn't hesitate to kill anyone in his path.  Looking forward to the rest of this storyline in the months to come.

Storm wanting to help it almost appears when she sees Gladiator in pain.  Fits the character of that era (before she went punk rock and was willing to nearly kill people).  Love Gladiator being super-confident in his team too, fits for a military leader who has powers that match Superman's - he demands perfection from himself and expects it from his team as well.  As others said, a Perez type panel at the end there with 15 characters in it.  I have to figure other artists are amazed at how both Perez (the ultimate master of crowds) and Byrne can do those crowd scenes so well.  I love when things are 'right' like Colossus being tallest, Wolverine smallest among the X-Men.  I really, really hope the MCU gets it right this time with a short guy hired to be Logan.

Thanks again for more fun stuff to read.  Both the pages and the forum.