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In which we remain adamant pro-POG advocates; Artie and Leech have adventures; Firestar and Emma Frost get some resolution; Santa Claus may or may not be the avatar of Cyttorak; Black Tom Cassidy exceeds expectations; and Monet has vampire problems.
X-PLAINED:
- Marvel’s Revolution line
- POGs (somewhat) (again)
- Who’s on Generation X these days
- Generation X #59-62
- Artie and Leech’s adventures in NYC
- Holidays at the Massachusetts Academy
- Cordelia Frost (more) (again)
- Mondo (the real one)
- Santa Claus / Juggernaut disambiguation
- An overly convoluted plot
- Parenting?
- St. Croix family problems
- Vampire problems
- Legacies of Generation X
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I played a D&D monk for several years. Eventually I multiclassed into one of the free Magic the Gathering cleric subclasses that let them pick from the druid cantrips. Now the party had an actual healer and I had a stronger monk weapon than otherwise available at that level. I miss playing Meander.
I bought this POG, like, wrestling-ring toy thing.
A toy wrestling-ring, but for /branded for pogs.
And a whole (male)kids birthday-party I went to it, centered around heated matches in it.
The release date for the MGS3remake is Aug2025
It does seem odd that there IS no “standout” Generation X story they way that most other series did. A story that is the first one to leap to mind when you think of the title, due to story, art or, if you’re lucky, both.
The X-Men had Dark Phoenix Saga (Amongst others of course) with Claremont and Byrne.
The New Mutants had The Demon Bear with Claremont and Scienkiewicz and, I’d argue, The Asgard Saga with Claremont and Adams.
X-Factor had the Four Horsemen component of Fall of the Mutant with Simonson and Simonson. (Wasn’t that an 80’s show? 😉 )
I don’t think X-Force had much in the way of a standout story either, not one that was distinctly “theirs” in terms of style and focus. Or am I overlooking an obvious one?
I suppose New Mutants and X-Factor had the advantage of being novel concepts in a less crowded market.
It does feel a little odd that even with Chris Bacchalo art (Which I won’t deny the talent of even if I’m not a huge fan) the Gen-X titles which spring to mind most easily are the Phalanx Covenant which introduced them, and possibly Generation Next, which was their AU storyline before we even knew much about most of them in the mainstream.
Yeah, the Age of Apocalypse Generation Next is for me the most memorable storyline for the team.
Having an alternate-reality arc be the series standout isn’t awful — Days of Future Past for me remains a Top 5 for Uncanny — but the fact that there’s so little competition doesn’t speak all that well for the run as a whole.
Which is surprising given that Scott Lobdell was pretty good at coming up with Big Deal Storylines, even if some of them fell apart in execution. Part of the problem was lack of good villains — Emplate peaked at the character design stage, and Dark Beast always seemed to belong more to the other X-books.
Okay, I have a question to end all questions!
Marvel’s sliding timescale only really works if we all agree not to think too much about it. But wouldn’t it be fun to try and chart everything logically?
So, if we argue that the silver age was roughly 15 years ago, then Professor Xavier first opened his doors to the original team in 2010. When do Jay and Miles think everything slots in between then and the current day?
How long were the original team together before Giant sized? How long was Jean dead for (the first time)? Did the New Mutants spend more than a couple of years at Xavier’s? Was Gen X just a summer school? Was Wolverine without his adamantium skeleton for a long weekend? How long did the dissemination last and was the whole Krakoa experiment really just a holiday camp?
I know it doesn’t work like this, but would be fun to think about how it could 🙂