Excalibur was my ancilliary X-book, so I'm not sure I even read the crossovers with this title. But most of the characters have gone on, so...from 2001,
Generation X #75, "Brand New Day" Written by Brian Wood, pencils by Ron Lim, inks by Sandu Florea and Randy Elliott.
The kids of Generation X are wondering if their time there hasn't run it's course; since Emma and Sean are both acting weird: Emma had killed her sister
Adrienne (who had set a bomb that killed Synch) and appeared to dream about it and
really enjoy it. She also used her powers to mindwipe an investigating cop, while Sean was hitting the bottle after the death of Moira MacTaggert. (Pre-
House of X stuff. I'm not sure they were a couple then, but it still hit him pretty hard.) Husk is trying to be the adult and organize missions for her team, but Emma won't approve one to help "tree-huggers" since it might hurt her bottom line. And Chamber got a letter from Xavier's, offering him a table at the big-boys' table, with the X-Men! Jubilee encourages him to take the spot, but he was already sold.
When Chamber tells the rest of the team, Monet scolds Husk for not even pretending to be glad for him; but she's not mad about that: what are they even doing there? Was there an end goal, or a graduation, anywhere in sight? In the middle of their discussion, there's a balloon from Jubilee that appears to be altered from the usual lettering, like a late correction? But she decides to go back to L.A. and sort out her life; with Skin accompanying her. Husk opts to head north and help the environmentalists, claiming she doesn't want to be an X-Man. Uh-huh. Monet says she'll head home as well, and together the kids tell Sean their decision. He didn't feel like he'd been doing a good job for them, so he couldn't blame them; and says he'll return to Ireland to get himself together. The kids still love him...but ask him to tell Emma, who had gone over all scary.
From an upstairs window, Emma watches the kids make their goodbyes, then takes a call from the Professor, who has sent a helicopter and some X-uniformed guys to pick her up. Sean, who looks about twenty years too young with Ron Lim drawing him, locks the place up, happy he saw the kids (that lived!) grow up. Of course, he'd next be seen--with Jubilee, and Husk!--around
Uncanny X-Men #403, as part of the short-lived mutant cops team X-Corps. Why Sean would be part of that, and why Jubilee and Husk would join him; well, that one wasn't a great idea and wasn't executed well, either: they needed
somebody on that team. Emma might have been on her way to Genosha there, since she would shortly turn up in
New X-Men #115: her secondary mutation and relationship with Cyclops were coming up. Those have been around so long it feels like forever, doesn't it?
The legacy of this book certainly is something isn't it?
ReplyDeleteBoth this & Gen 13 (having to be renamed after they also initially took the Gen X name only for Marvel to shut that shit down quick) and started off around the same time to differing levels of success. I guess Gen X did better overall, but not by much when you factor in the inevitable dead members & the follow up you hinted at with X-Corps. Oh and Jubilee and Skin being crucified on the front lawn of the X-Mansion as well.
I wonder if any grown up 90's babies still think about either book and would be willing to fund revivals. I know the New Mutants keep getting theirs, but nothing for Gen X.
There was at least a Gen X limited a bit ago? If it was meant to be a limited; and it was probably to keep the rights. I have a random issue, where at least some of them are back together, but why? And maybe Quentin Quire is in there; I've never taken to him.
ReplyDeleteAww, you're right there was/is. Basically new version of Gen X, like the new version of DeGrasse High. Very interesting how Quire's quickly developed over is, what now 20 year existence, but more so in the last 5-10.
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