Piskor has fun here recapturing 60s Silver Age art and plotting, streamlining the origin of the X-men, and keeping some of the Silver Age silliness while downplaying its inconsistencies and continuity mistakes. Piskor does retcon the Pheonix Force and Mr. Sinister back into the Silver Age to make it more consistent with later arcs, particularly early Claremont, but it is a lot of fun and is a way to get a grasp on origin stories and timelines that have become nearly impossibly convoluted at this point otherwise.
