I doubt he's really dead. They invested too much into the character. He's probably gonna heal or something.
When WAXM first dropped, dudes on were jocking the fukk out of it. I never saw the big deal. It's silly and farcical...unbecoming of a main X-title. Gillen's UXM shyts on it. I was telling people that after both first issues and got a bunch of shyt is borderline And fukk the hellfire babysitters club.
I like the concept of WAXM and really enjoyed the first couple of issues just ebcause it was a change of pace for an X-book to have so much humor in it after so many years of ridiculous melodrama. But the book has become very blah. Every once in a while Aaron delivers a decent issue (like the one focusing on Doop) and some of the characters are really cool (especially Quentin Quire and Broo) but the book as a whole has not lived up to expectations.
And the Hellfire Kids are just a horrible concept that needs to be trashed immediately.
Sebastian Shaw needs to show up, kill all of those little fukkers with his bare hands and take back his evil sex club/criminal empire.