OK, for those who don't already know, plug your ears...
but Professor X has died at least once before....yup, in the very pages of X-men in about 1967 or so.
How he died isn't terribly important, but it left the recent graduates with a loss of identity and direction, and they wandered aimlessly for a while. (Who are we kidding, Jean and Scott started shacking up, away from his disapproving eyes..…