First: THANK YOU GOD!

Second: If I would trust somebody to pull Arena off well, it would be Kyle and Yost. Mostly because they wouldn’t steal from other people’s works and actually knew what they’re doing.

Third: THANK YOU GOD!

I wish to repeat this response with fireworks, a marching band and Dick Clarke’s Head announcing the proceedings.

Also why would Yost write again something he already wrote years ago on New X-Men, all while being as classy as Hopeless?

I liked Kyle & Yost's New X-Men (may have something to do with the fact they made Surge may favorite character). But even they said they're doing this because it felt appriorate - post-House of M era was darkest in X-Men history, so they wrote dark story. Today they probably wouldn't, because t's a lot brighter time for X-Men.

As for being classy - they gone out of their way to not kill Sophia, even through they easily could. Even the characters who they killed, aside from laurie, they carrefully picked up trying to piss off as little fans as possible. Because okay, Tag was fun, but he got least development from Helions and always felt overshadowed and Icarus, no matter how Weir & DePhilips tried, never lived down bein written by Chuck Austen.

Besides, I feel like K&Y tried to write from life and  what they had in mind was mutant version of 9/11, while Hopeless just opypasted frrom Battle Royale. And while Hopeless made Arcade superbadass genisu who is step behind everyone and can beat everybody with his bare hands, Puriffers were always presented as cowardly terrorists who might be step behind X-Men and have awesome technology, but still lack balls to go against adults and stick to picking on children. And their plan finally fell apart and their leader got killed because even with literal window to the future they couldn't control all the variables, while Arcade had backup plan on backup plan and got away with a slap on the wrist, laughing how he outsmarted everyone.