Summary: Sean drowns his sorrow over Moira's
death in the bottom of a bottle, Emma grows more
detached and less restrained with her powers
while the GenXer's disillusionment with the life
they lead increases. The situation comes to a
head when Jonothan is offered a place with the X-Men
and the other teens come to the realisation that
the Academy is no longer their home. Sean
supports them in their decision but they leave
without bidding Emma farewell. M returns home to
Monaco, Paige goes to join a group of
conservationists, Jono heads for Westchester (home
of the X-Men) while Angelo joins Jubilee on a
road trip back to their hometown of L.A. Soon
after the students' departure Emma is summoned by
Xavier.Story wise this story
is not impressive. However this is understandable
once you take into consideration that Wood had to
wait and see which characters were wanted by the
new writers of the core X-books, which ones were
to be cast off into limbo, come up with an
explanation why the characters would leave and do
it all in the space of a single issue. No easy
feat.
The
three stars are warranted mainly because of good
characterisation of the teens, nice art with
equally good colouring and some great dialogue.
Jubilee is often portrayed as nothing more than a
whiny brat with a vocabulary limited to like
and y'know but here she comes across as
a smart, likeable teenager with an exuberant take
on life and an unique brand of common-sense.
I
will miss Generation X and its eclectic cast of
characters but will settle for the White Queen's
appearances in New X-Men and Chamber's
appearances in Uncanny X-Men. Mostly I'm
disappointed that Brian Wood and Steve Pugh didn't
have more time to tell other stories with these
characters. The up-in-the-air project that is NYX
would have been a good opportunity to see Wood
work on other established X-Men characters,
including Jubilee, but I'll just have to wait for
his upcoming graphic novel Couscous Express to
read more from him.
For
more information on Brian Wood and Steve Pugh visit their
respective websites (click on their names) or
visit the Creative
Teams section in this site.
More information on Generation X can be
found in some of the numerous sites listed in the
links section or
by visiting Marvel.com.
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