| Generation X # 68 Plot: Warren
Ellis
Writer:
Brian Wood
Pencillers:
Steve Pugh & Ron Lim
Inkers:
Wiacek, Ramos & Mei
Colours:
Kevin Somers & Joe Rosas.
Cover:
Art Adams
Title:
Come on, Die Young (part 2 of 4)
Rating:
****
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| Description:
Ev is cornered by bullies in his room who
question him about Jono and Angelo. Monet arrives
before they can hurt him. When Sean goes to
inform Emma of this, he finds Adrienne in her
office. She claims that she needs refuge from the
London section of the Hellfire Club because she
ripped them off for millions of pounds. Sean
threatens her but Emma tells him that Adrienne
has had it arranged so that if anything should
happen to her it would be revealed, along with
evidence to prove it, that the Academy secretly
schooled mutants in the use of their powers. Sean
concedes and Adrienne is given her old room to
sleep in. Outside Jubilee is walking through the
school grounds when she is hit on the head with a
snowball and someone calls her a mutant. Scared
she runs away. Emma sees this and takes out a gun
before going with Sean to meet with the kids.
There they tell the GenXer's that they are
restricted to their rooms and that Adrienne is
back. As Angelo, Jono, Jubilee and Paige walk
back to their rooms they smell smoke. Running
they find Jubilee's room on fire with words like
'Die Mutie' painted on the wall outside. Comments:
While the story this issue was quite good, the
art wasn't as good as previous issues. Maybe it
was the two inkers as the art was stronger at the
beginning than at the end, and two different
colourists didn't help either. Ron Lim only
pencilled 4 pages at the very end of the book,
but he's quite good and I wouldn't mind seeing
him as a fill in penciller in the future. Also,
Pugh has changed his way of drawing Jubilee and I
preferred the way he drew her during the House of
Correction story arc. However the actual story
was the saving grace as it showed just how
powerful mutant hatred can be, especially with
Jubilee's fear when accused of being a mutant.
The team can't just go and beat up some bad guy
to make the problem go away, they're up against
something that can't be beaten. (Slight query
though, do the other GenXer's know about Monet
and Ev? It was hinted at last issue that they
might, but there's been no such indication this
time round.)
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