The Best Group of X-Kids Has Been...

[Starleafgirl]

This has probably been done before, but I don't know where, so... :P

I recently started reading WATXM and couldn't believe how awesome the book and that group of kids are. I never thought I'd care about X-Kids again after Generation X ended... New X-Men, Young X-Men, and especially Generation Hope were beyond boring to me, with totally unrelatable characters, by and large, with a few exceptions sprinkled here and there. Which is just my opinion, of course.

So I was wondering if anyone else felt the same way?

Who's been your favorite group(s) of X-kids? Here's all the ones I can think of, sorry if I missed anything.

For the sake of fairness, I tried to pick each group's #1 cover, but then I got to New X-Men, which starts with #114 and doesn't even have the kids on it... so whatever, random cover for each. ;P

New Mutants



Generation X



New X-Men/Special Class/Academy X

[Starleafgirl]

Young X-Men



Generation Hope



Jean Grey School (JGSHL) Class

[Quinnhop]

1) Wolverine and the X-Men
2) Morrison's New X-Men
3) Generation X

[darknessatnoon]

1) Generation Hope
2) Morrison's New X-Men
3) Young X-Men

On the poll, you seem to confuse the forreal New X-Men "special class" kids with the Academy X kids. Morrison's crew is not the same as the losers created in that subsidiary book.

[Filip]

1. Generation X
2. Morrison's special class
3. Generation Hope
4. Gambit's class
5. New Mutants

[Dr. Sonic]

It's a tough call.
I'd go... from best to least best:
1) New X-Men
2) Wolverine and the X-Men
3) Generation X
4) Morrison's 'Special' Class
5) New Mutants
6) Generation Hope
7) Young X-Men

[Starleafgirl]

1) Generation Hope
2) Morrison's New X-Men
3) Young X-Men

On the poll, you seem to confuse the forreal New X-Men "special class" kids with the Academy X kids. Morrison's crew is not the same as the losers created in that subsidiary book.

I was thinking it could be either/or because the #1 issue of Academy X has "New X-Men" in huge letters and "Academy X" in smaller letters. What I'm representing here are all-new rebrandings of the X-Kids in an attempt to boost sales; the beginning of Academy X, then, really just seemed like a continuation of New X-Men.

P.S. I'm pleased to see the poll so far is reflecting what I've suspected: that New Mutants, Generation X, and WATXM are more popular/better than the intervening iterations of x-kids.

[darknessatnoon]

the beginning of Academy X, then, really just seemed like a continuation of New X-Men.

Well, it wasn't. It was an abomination.

[Panic]

I voted for Generation X. New Mutants was often a terrific comic (just picked up the first Sienkiewicz trade), but many of the actual members were boring - Claremont kept bringing in guest-stars to make up for that, I think.

[AcesX1X]

1. new mutants
2. special class
3. generation x

[Starleafgirl]

Well, it wasn't. It was an abomination.

Then I'm glad I didn't choose their #1 issue as the representative cover for New X-Men here.

[darknessatnoon]

The true New X-Men.

[BLACKWINGS]

I would say Wolverine and the X-Men, but New X-Men and Generation-X are tied for second.

[Starleafgirl]

The true New X-Men.

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Thanks for the education; I've amended the New X-Men category to New X-Men/Special Class/Academy X, based on your posts and the posts of others in the thread, but I don't think I can change the poll at this point, lol.

[darknessatnoon]

The poll was invalid for leaving out the numero uno class.