Man, knowing what the Age of X was really makes these stories pointless and confusing. Basically it's two issues of "it never actually happened" history that got the Age of X to where it was when we joined up. Except, where it was when we joined up was the beginning. Yeah, it makes my head hurt to think to hard about it and neither story was particularly good. Like I said last month, I think Marvel panicked when they realized Age of X was a bit DOA and wanted to add something to make it feel more like an event. Oh well.