I hate that... but at least it's a villain doing it here!
My reading brain went on the fritz. I kept reading that as 'I really miss those offensive issues', not 'I have none of the issues except the less offensive ones', which you clearly meant.
To be fair, he never liked going by his first name.
To be unfair (?), the 'Mr.' makes it sound weird.
I tried that too, once. I just didn't get very far (ran out of steam after a few pages; and I was working from the art, not the script).
Whatever happened, it happened in X-Men and Weapon X... I'm probably missing a lot of the X-Men issues, but I think it's just one of those cases of 'We want to write a bunch of dull, emotionless characters (or angry, nasty characters) with nothing to make people want to read them. Uh... uh... It's Realistic! You'd be that way too, if you'd been through what this character has been through! REALISTIC!!!!!!!!!!!'
~ Le Messor
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
~ Albert Einstein