X-TREME X-MEN #1 reviewed

The current incarnation of the X-TREME X-MEN title takes its cue from four issues of THE ASTONISHING X-MEN, issues 44-47, written by Greg Pak. For those people who never read them, here is a quick synopsis.
 
Cyclops uses a Ghost Box to travel to a parallel timeline where the X-men fought a war against Magneto to free the human race. Charles Xavier, now known as Savior, creates a device to save their planet by using mutant power, mostly from other universes. Cyclops. finds himself imprisoned in the device along with alternate versions of Wolverine (General James Howlett), Emmeline Frost, Kitty Pryde (Shadow), and Kurt Waggoner. They manage to escape and, because of Cyclops' refusal to sacrifice himself to save this universe, the device is destroyed. It now becomes the work of these four heroes from various realities to fix this world before it is ripped apart.
 
This new series directly leads out of that storyline. It begins with Kurt Waggoner imploring with a host of Xavier heads linked together to transport all of this soon to be destroyed Earth to an uninhabited alternate earth. On our Earth, we get to see Alison Blaire in her role as Dazzler. She ends up being called to Utopia where Cyclops needs her help in powering up a Ghost Box. Unfortunately, this Ghost Box sucks the recently relocated X-Treme X-Men into our world, along with some tentacled creature that is the Xavier of that world. The creature drags Dazzler into that world, where Howlett defeats the creature. And it’s not long before the floating headed Xavier of this world sends this new team, featuring Dazzler, on a new mission where it seems they will find a team made up of another universe’s Sabretooth, Namor, Storm, Angel and Thor.
 
I have to admit I bought the book out of curiosity and will end up leaving it on the shelves out of boredom and confusion. I like Greg Pak’s work, specifically his work on HULK and the various spin-off titles (WORLD WAR HULK, SKAAR, etc). But this title is confusing and disjointed. If you have NO IDEA who these characters are and just jumped in out of interest, you will be sadly disappointed. Not to mention we get Dazzler, one of my old guilty pleasure characters, and she is thrown into the title because she can be. She is a cast-off character who Pak has dug out of the Marvel pantheon of mutants. If you are going to do that, use her to her fullest capacity or kill her off. Oh wait: this isn’t SUICIDE SQUAD.
 
On the artistic side, instead of Mike McKone, who illustrated the ASTONISHING X-MEN, we get Stephen Segovia who is doing his best to try to finally take on his own style as opposed to trying to draw like so many other Marvel artists. He doesn’t always succeed, but after this horrible story, his art is actually welcome relief.
 
I will be avoiding this title. Even as along-time comic reader who knew the back-story, I was confused and truly bored. My three bucks will go elsewhere, thank you very much!