Generation X Appreciation

[AcesX1X]

Um,

I think you're forgetting about Vincente and Daria and Neophyte and all Emplate's mysterious Hellions.

And Canada had FLEX!

[Jack Flash]

Um,

I think you're forgetting about Vincente and Daria and Neophyte and all Emplate's mysterious Hellions.

And Canada had FLEX!

and Cordelia Frost! and Mondo! and Maggott!

[Home made ectoplasm]

and Cordelia Frost! and Mondo! and Maggott!

Sorry Jed, although some of your D list love has rubbed off on me, I will never appreciate Maggot.

[AdamYJ]

Um,

I think you're forgetting about Vincente and Daria and Neophyte and all Emplate's mysterious Hellions.

And Canada had FLEX!

Were Emplate's Hellions supposed to be the same age as the Gen X kids? I thought they were older.

[AcesX1X]

Were Emplate's Hellions supposed to be the same age as the Gen X kids? I thought they were older.

what gave you that idea? exactly?

[AdamYJ]

what gave you that idea? exactly?

I don't know. They just didn't seem like kids to me. I never saw much of Emplate's Hellions anyway. My collection of Gen X comics is mainly in bits and pieces (So sue me. I had no comic shop during most of its run).

[Prodigy55]

OMG I love Generation X, they were awesome

And this is the most fabulous Fastball Special ever:

[Quinnhop]

Adam Pollina's awesome variant from issue 63. The beginning of Counter X (which is now getting TPB treatment).

I wonder how Husk feels about Emma stealing her powerset.

[SayOcean]

i remember reading gen x 25 and almost started crying cause i thought they were all dead....Synch was my favorite but i also liked SKin, and jubilee.....and husk....and chamber.....M was probably my least favorite, but that was teh poing of her chracter....that scene where she throws emma around the limo is priceless....bitch got owned


and prodigy needs to stay as far away as synch as possible

[That JonoGuy]

Ah. Finally. I knew there was an appreciation thread out there somewhere.

Were there any character developments during Generation X that you didn't care for? I never particular cared for Synch using Chamber's powers for flight. I could understand using it to blast himself into the air, but not actual flight itself. It just seemed kind of excessive. Thankfully it never went anywhere.

[SayOcean]

well chamber is(or was) a being of pure psionic energy so its not out of question that synch could fly with his powers

[That JonoGuy]

well chamber is(or was) a being of pure psionic energy so its not out of question that synch could fly with his powers

I guess it was more of a case of Synch looking silly using Chambers powers that way. I know it would have certainly been weird to see Chamber using his powers that way in his state at the time.

[Disco Jess Minge]

I hated how Skin became a total idiot later in the run before Wood. He was a snarky bad-ass that smoked cigararettes and ran with gangs before his mutantity came.

Then during Hama and Fabeear's runs, he was all like Anthony Anderson in any film, annoying and lame. Thanks goodness for Wood and Ellis.

There's four definite Gen X artists for me. Bachalo>Pugh>Dodson>Grummet.

Why I ranked Pugh before Dodson? Because Pugh could actually draw teenagers and Dodson was still stuck in pin-up pose drawing (which is a style people can appreciate but doesn't really work in a teen-centric book).

Crossovers that worked the best? The second Gen 13 crossover by James Robinson and Salvarado Larocca.

Crossovers that failed? The New Warriors. FORCED.

[That JonoGuy]

I hated how Skin became a total idiot later in the run before Wood. He was a snarky bad-ass that smoked cigararettes and ran with gangs before his mutantity came.

Then during Hama and Fabeear's runs, he was all like Anthony Anderson in any film, annoying and lame. Thanks goodness for Wood and Ellis.

Agreed for the most part. I did think Hama gave Skin a bit of an edge over Faerber's portrayal. Of course, it's hard to notice much of what was good about his run due to the excessive amount of bad that there was.

Skin also had the problem of his powers being portrayed like "Mr. Fantastic." I think for the most part the artists got it right, but during Dodson's run he seemed to do that a lot.

[That JonoGuy]

Did Hama even do one good story during the whole thing? I don't really think so.

Having just reread all of the Hama issues, I'd say the theft storyline with the town kids was pretty good. Of course it's hard to look at his run and not think of the M debacle and Snow W...or righy, Bianca LaNeige. He actually had some nice character moments and brief bits of good story, but they were just bits in the larger bad storylines.