Anyone ever read Warren Ellis / Brian Wood's Generation X run?

[lukewarmwater]

I read the first few issues of generation x and liked it but didnt bother to keep reading and I missed out on the warren ellis brian wood arc.


Anyone read it? Is it good? Is it in trade format?

thanks-
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[Dan Apodaca]

I didn't think it was too great. I'm a fan of both Ellis and Wood, but this series just didn't do anything for me. To be fair, though, I was never much of a fan of Gen. X.

[Nobbel]

I did read Gen. X for about 14 issues, but it became more childish with every issue so I quit buying the book and I wasn't the only one.....

I did like Penance a great deal, but she seems to be gone forever....

[Flight]

Gen X got really good in the last few issues when they had a spotlight on a different character each month.
The rival students/Synch's death/Emma's sister/Sean's drinking plots finished the book off unfortunately.

[Gaveedra 6]

I really liked it in the end. It was the one "Counter X" book I was sad to see go. I thought the kids were finally written like real teenagers for the first time. I missed alot of the characters who were just written out. And the first round of costues were a little silly. The story arc with the death of Synch was great though.

[The Dosadi Experiment]

mixed bag

I liked some of it, but at the same time I would have liked for Fearber's run to have made something of an impact, basically they threw out much of that run, and ignored character progression in favor of a new status quo, which happened to be awkwardly set somewhere around 8 years ago.

But I still liked some of it.

[Cayman]

I bought the first issue. I liked Ab-Fab Emma, but it didn't do much for me otherwise. Only Counter-X book that impressed me was X-Man. I kind of grew to dislike Brian Wood from his presence at the Warren Ellis Forum, back in the day.

Cay

[Alan2099]

I thought the series quickly went downhill when Scott Lobdell left.

[streator]

i read all of gen x, and besides the first 25 or so issues, this run was the best work on the title. that being said, it wasn't anything great or really memorable, but it was okay stuff. i didn't really care for the art, though. especially pugh's character designs (or re-designs).

[fishtaco]

Overall, I mostly disliked Counter X. But when Come On, Die Young started in Generation X, and then up until the end of the book, I thought that was good stuff.

[Ugoff]

It was bad. Horrible art, horrible story, horrible costume designs. Killing Synch was a stupid idea. I wish we could get like an alternate universe mini series that could do the series justice and really give the characters closure. But oh well.

[Yusaku Jon III]

Generation X as a whole was an on-and-off experience for me. The final run with Ellis, Wood and Pugh was something of a disappointment in that regard, but mostly because they were never truly allowed to hit their stride with the cancellation that loomed soon afterwards. Some things were a bit over the top (Johnston Coffin's cartoon Nazi camp) and we got the non-resolution of certain subplots (Paige the tree-hugger, the fact that the kids didn't even know that Emma had capped her psycho sister Adrienne, etc). This run has all the earmarks of some good ideas which got caught up in a train wreck at the back offices.

[Yusaku Jon III]

Generation X as a whole was an on-and-off experience for me. The final run with Ellis, Wood and Pugh was something of a disappointment in that regard, but mostly because they were never truly allowed to hit their stride with the cancellation that loomed soon afterwards. Some things were a bit over the top (Johnston Coffin's cartoon Nazi camp) and we got the non-resolution of certain subplots (Paige the tree-hugger, the fact that the kids didn't even know that Emma had capped her psycho sister Adrienne, etc). This run has all the earmarks of some good ideas which got caught up in a train wreck at the back offices.

[atoningunifex]

I'm a huge Ellis fan. I buy all his stuff.

And this stuff was really not that good.

[Ryan K]

I didn't particularly like the direction the book took with Counter X. It reminded me too much of the early X-Force concept. "We're grown up now! No more waiting around the school for trouble to come to us. We have to be proactive. Hunt down the bad guys and solve mysteries like the Scooby Gang!"

I liked the idea of them trying to establish Jubilee as a field leader of the team (for selfish reasons), but really Generation X didn't need a field leader. They shouldn't have been going out on Op's or anything.

And the costumes were terrible.

[Atomic Mongoose]

What was the whole concept behind "Counter X"? It only involved Generation X, X-Force, and X-Man, right? Was "Counter X" like a crossover event, or take place in a "counter" reality, or what? I've never really understood.

[Quarterwolf]

What was the whole concept behind "Counter X"? It only involved Generation X, X-Force, and X-Man, right? Was "Counter X" like a crossover event, or take place in a "counter" reality, or what? I've never really understood.

It was a way to jump 6 months into the future and give the books a "new" direction.

I kinda liked it at first. The Characters seemed to have a purpose again for a few issues at least and the loss of Synch (though lame) was handled rather well with Monet actually showing emotion about it.

Over all it was ok but not great by any stretch.

[Ryan K]

The whole six month gap thing was part of Revolution though. Which encompassed all the x-titles at the time.

Counter X was just the label they put on the three books Eliis had a hand in. X-Force, Generation X, and X-Man. New directions for all three books because the sales were lagging.

And for the record, noen of the Counter X stuff has been put into trade.

[Quarterwolf]

Right but I am pretty sure that Counter X books also had the six month jump in them...Starting with the issue shown if I rememeber right.

Then again I could be wrong. Either way it was a ok book. Not great not horrible.

[Ryan K]

Right but I am pretty sure that Counter X books also had the six month jump in them...Starting with the issue shown if I rememeber right.

Then again I could be wrong. Either way it was a ok book. Not great not horrible.

No, you're right too. I just wanted to clarify that it was the Revolution banner which signified the 6 month jump ahead mark and not the Counter X banner. The Counter X books all started at the same time as Revolution.

[nubly]

No, you're right too. I just wanted to clarify that it was the Revolution banner which signified the 6 month jump ahead mark and not the Counter X banner. The Counter X books all started at the same time as Revolution.
revolution? what did i miss?

[fishtaco]

revolution? what did i miss?Claremont's return to X-Men and Uncanny X-Men. :)

[nubly]

Claremont's return to X-Men and Uncanny X-Men. :)
oh. they just called his return revolution? thats kind of odd. so it has nothing to do with that 'evolution, not revolution' saying from the brotherhood book?

[streator]

oh. they just called his return revolution? thats kind of odd. so it has nothing to do with that 'evolution, not revolution' saying from the brotherhood book?
no, it was just a tagline. marvel then followed up on it with "reload", aping "the matrix".