In Your Face Jam - Dec 5, 2012

[CBR News]

Brett White revisits Scott Lobdell and Chris Bachalo's "Generation X," a favorite from his childhood, and learned something other than fact that "chromium" can be used to describe a comic book cover.


Full article here.

[Robby Robot]

Brett White revisits Scott Lobdell and Chris Bachalo's "Generation X," a favorite from his childhood, and learned something other than fact that "chromium" can be used to describe a comic book cover.


Full article here.

I recently went back and read the beginning of Generation X as well. Felt many of the same things. Made me miss the characters.

I didn't get up to the M twins switch. How is the actual M different from the way the twins "played" her? I really enjoyed her early on as played by the twins.

[nate-grey]

Such a great article, you really captured my feeling about those early Gen X issues perfectly, and those four are some of my favorite issues ever. Gen X truly demonstrated everything great about 90s comics! Unfortunately the Gen X curse does seem to exist, but at least Chamber has been getting more exposure lately and M has been a mainstay thanks to PAD.

How is the actual M different from the way the twins "played" her? I really enjoyed her early on as played by the twins.

Um in short....not much at all. She makes a few comments about being mistreated by Jubilee, but then really continues on like she had always been there. Reminds me a lot of Beerfest where a main character dies and is replaced by his twin brother halfway through the movie, and a few minutes is devoted to the transition, but then nothing really changes.

[alf_to_the_rescue]

Reminds me to get the first trade of Gen X.

[Atomiq]

Leave my face jam unmolested.

[Thennary Nak]

I love Generation X just as much now as I did back when it was first coming out and I was really just getting into comics. I remember feeling so excited to be following a brand new series and I just loved all the characters being a young teen myself back then and having gotten into X-Men from the cartoon which had Jubilee as well.

Of course nothing can take away the Hama-stink from the run, but otherwise everything else was just fine. Perhaps not as good as the first run but still enjoyable. And of course much better than almost everything that has come after. I refuse to believe the Husk we have had post-GenX is the real Husk. I would not rule out a clone or alternate dimension version that somehow switched places with her as she was going home to the farm to visit her family after the school closed.

[DGlendening]

Hear, Hear!

Chamber circa Gen-X is still one of my favorite X-men.

[Majin Gojira]

Great Article, and I fear that many good characters and lasting teams created from the 90s onward are going to or have gotten similarly bad treatments. It's a sad state of affairs all said and done. The Core sentiment to it, like the one in "Doctor 13: Architecture and Morality", still rings true. They can never take away the stories that made us love these characters.

[artiepants]

man, i miss how clean & crisp Bachalo's art used to be. his modern work gyrates between interesting and unintelligible, but he was jsut batting 1000 on Gen X.

[finfangfool]

Also check out "Generation Next", the AoA version of the team by the same creative team. Just as strong in the art and writing department, most of the same characters (Jubes was off to nab the M'Kraan Crystal with Gambit's Externals but we got Mondo and Vincente along with Colossus and Kitty Pryde to make up for it), even the next few issues of Gen X after they come back are decent.

[Kenozoic]

I reread all of my "Legion of Super-Heroes" comics every few years. Some stories & characterizations stand up, some don't, but it's always cool to pick up on (and see connections between) things I missed during previous 'trips' through their world.

[nich]

Thanks for the reminder of how much I loved the early Gen X run and how things just went to suck with the characters from about halfway on until now.

[SayOcean]

I looooove generation x

[Devan]

I'd love to see a collection of the first 6 issues of Gen X and the Gen Next miniseries along with some additional material (Ashcan, previews, alternate covers etc.) Then, they could ignore the issues after Bachalo's departure (except for the covers which Bachalo illustrated) and just collect those after he returned in a second trade. Gen X only worked when both Lobdell and Bachalo were at the helm.

[starman]

Even though i own every issue of Gen-X I still bought VOL1 of the classics 2 years ago so I could take it on deployments. Vol2 comes out this January.