I am in pain. I legit feel horrible after finding out this is the last volume due to cancellation. I loved this volume a lot, it had everything I loved from X-Men, relationship drama, character growth, action, and just school life. The characters themselves have such chemistry between them. They all click with each other and make for great dialogue. The relationship between Morph, Hindsight, and Quinten is so good, it really does feel like a group of trouble making friends. The series also has a...

3.5 starsA Better than the first volume, but still lacking. Bringing old Gen X characters doesn't make it Gen X. especially when it seems forced.While the solution to the series main story was tacky and silly, it felt nice with an excuse for a little nostalgia.Overall unnecessary series with very little character development (starting to reform Quentin Quire was shown 10 times before)

3.5 Stars.Continuing their infiltration at the Fenris Twins party, Quentin, Ben (Morph), and Nathan (Hindsight) are still trying to get the Nano-Sentinels away from them. They achieve their objective, and Ben and Nathan realize they have feelings for each other, but choose not to act on them.Chamber and Jubilee have begun a relationship, and he has been a great help with Shogo. The return of Krakoa separates them when Jubilee gets trapped underground. Trapped with Bling, she is able to resist he...

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This is technically more of a 3.5 stars, because I really wanted to give it a better rating than the first volum since I thought there was improvement, but not an as high as the X-Force books that I've recently read and adored. But since there are no half stars... here we are.I'm actually a bit sad that this book got cancelled cause I started to really like the characters and thought that it would be possible to even love a few of them. Knowing that the creator(s) had to cut the story short defi...

Continuing the great x-read of 2017/18...Here we go. Continuing the tradition of Marvel cancelling any title focusing on the younger x-characters (which are often some of the best writing of the x-books at that particular moment in time), this is the final volume of this version of Generation X. Which is a shame as it is up there with my favorite titles at this point in x-history.We see a reunion of sorts for the original Gen X team (which begs the question even more of why Mondo was unceremonio...

On the downside, this volume reminded me of the existence of the Fenris twins, which I could EXTREMELY live without. On the upside, I did like the continued character development, though. Benjamin and Nathaniel's romance was sweet, I'm fond of Trevor and Lin, Jono seems like a nice dude and I liked his mentor/mentee relationship with Roxy, and Jubilee got her powers back! Comics that make me go "awww, they're a family" are good comics. I probably would have read more of this, it's too bad that t...

I had a really hard time warming up to this version of Generation X. It definitely wasn’t what I was expecting, but as I started to grow fond of the characters, things came to an end...I guess in these days, a book is either a sudden hit, or it gets canned. Not much of a chance out there.Anyway, the title may have its faults, it did drag a bit too long with the Monet/Emplate thing, and it may have been a bit predictable, but it was enjoyable nonetheless.I guess what surprises me the most is that...

Great new queer characters and a gay romance! Plus Jubilee is fantastic and kicks ass.

I am totally owning up to the fact that at least half a star in my rating is pure nostalgia. Yes, it was great watching the kids sort themselves out, and I think I'm finally starting to come around on the subject of Quentin, but for me the real enjoyment was watching the original GenXers in action, and the callbacks to the original book (mostly the Lobdell/Bachalo run.) Paige has always been my girl and the Marvel Universe has not always treated her kindly (understatement) so I was a little, um,...

This is an interesting mix of developments and characters and situations that I either really liked a lot or disliked immensely. Husk and Jubilee and Monet are among my favorite X characters, and some of them have interesting things happen in this book. I really didn't care at all about some of Jubilee's students, who were mostly more whiny and tiresome than not. (Nature Girl's cool, though.) The book would have benefitted a lot from a preface introducing who was who and why they were there and

I wanted to like this more than I did because I like Strain's characterization and I like watching X-books being opened up from a repetitive myopic focus on classic Claremont era characters. Nathaniel, Benji, Quentin and Husk are all well-treated by Strain's characterization, yet Quentin's character development seems rushed due the the announced cancellation of series.It leads to a major development for Jubilee, but ultimately the rush hurts the pacing and left this feeling like it could have be...

Generation X volume two #7 to #9; #85 to #87 sees Jubilee continue to try and manage a remedial group. Gay cross-races romance, Quentin Quire heroism, Bling travails, mysterious Nature Girl and tag a long Eye-Boy ensue. Despite all the blaring obvious 'fake' diversity it's the stories of now older Jubilee, Chamber and Husk that resonate and save the book from a one-star review. The main baddie.. almost a trope for this series... is Emplate. 5 out of 12.

One of my favorite X-men runs ever. I completely loved the characters, and I especially liked what they did with Benji (and Nathaniel and Quentin). Amazing character development and some important plot points to boot. Only complaint, really didn’t like the art style.

Strain's Generation X continues to be excellent. And that continues to be because of the excellent characterization. This volume is almost entirely about the kids and their relationships with each other. It's really terrific seeing so many of them, as a kind of sequel to Generation X, Morrison's New X-Men, and even some of the Young X-Men. There's also plot here, of course. We get a heist and then some considerable focus on the Empath/Monet problem. The first is pretty delightful, but the last d...

The focus shifts more to the original Gen X team in this volume as Strain hussles to hit all her planned story points ahead of the book's cancellation(I've had to write this in way too man Marvel book reviews lately. Jeez guys, give books a chance). While I'm super glad the ridiculous (view spoiler)[Jubilee is vampire (hide spoiler)] thing is finally done with, there was no reason for Husk to be here other than nostalgia. The Quentin/ Benji/Nathaniel also ate up too much space. I would have like...

Well what do you know, this volume managed to turn things around. I’d be lying if I didn’t also say that I’m a sucker for a gay romance subplot. But the main point of this book is that we’ve gotten past all of the stupid setup and most of the characters have evolved past their unnecessary regressions from the last volume. Quentin Quire is still a snarky asshole, but now he’s doing it to cover up his vulnerability again. We can see behind the curtain to who he actually likes and cares about. Eye

I liked this series quite a lot. I remembered Benjamin Deeds as a student of Cyclops' team after Cyclops was evil/Phoenixed up. He continues to be adorable here. I read the new West Coast Avengers books with Quentin Quire in them, which happened after this, so this gave me a little background. Apparently Quentin had been quite the villain at times before this series?I remembered the original Generation X characters from having read that comic in the 1990s. I was pleased that they actually got so...

I loved Generation X back in the day, and it was great to see the surviving characters get back together. Personally, I would love it if those two other characters would find their way back, as well, particularly Skin, who had a cheap death that I'm still pretty mad about. Anyhow, apart from that, this story was interesting, and also featured some of the other younger characters from the previous volumes, with a few different romances brewing. The main thing that I loved about this volume is Jub...