This series is likely not what people expected it would be - it's very different to its namesake and is pretty abstract when compared to the rest of the X-lineup. When it comes to X-Men, it is particularly difficult to put together a team because every person has a different idea of what the X-Men should be. When it came to X-Men: Gold, I was struck by a tagline on an ad " "You asked for it. You got it" " as it seemed to suggest they were going with a straight superhero book because that's what was being demanded the most. That might be what people thought they wanted from the X-line, but Generation X is what never knew you needed. Read Full Review

This is a series that brings a lot of new faces to an old team of heroes that we know and love. Xavier's legacy lives on in this new generation of mutants. So far, they're not acting like a cohesive unit at all, but I'm really hoping these kids can get on board with the concept of being a new X-Men team. We'll just have to keep reading to see what happens! Read Full Review

Generation X #2 was a taste of what this cast of characters can come to expect from the new Xavier Institute. This issue made the statement that things are going to work differently with the students and they backed this up from the way they approached handling the Purifiers to how Jubilee explained all of this to the students. Read Full Review

The art has highs and lows, as does the story, but this is a decent outing for a tertiary X-book trying to establish its place in the world. Read Full Review

Overall I do like the concept for this book I just feel that there are x-books in the past that have done it better. Maybe now that the team is together and the learning is about to begin we will get some stories to really pull us in. But for now I'm still wondering why I should invest in this series. Read Full Review

Creative hurdles hold back an X-book with a refreshing premise. Read Full Review

A solid, interesting premise to this new X-Comic is overshadowed by all the side material shoved in on top of it. Read Full Review

Some teen X-Men books really shake up the formula, and others seem content to play it safe. Generation X is, sadly, shaping up to be the latter. Read Full Review

Amilcar Pinna art is also not doing the book any favors. Character faces look distorted at times and widely inconsistent. Being only two issues in this series can still right the ship by figuring out exactly what it wants to be. It is fine to follow a formula as long as you execute it properly. So far this is not much more than a poorer version of a better comic. Read Full Review

This is nothing like the Gen X that came before it - and it didn't have to be. But readers hoping that Strain and Pinna could capture some of the outsider appeal of that title would be better served to look elsewhere. Read Full Review

So happy to see this title off to a good start since This title holds a nostalgic place in my heart because I loved the 90's Gen X so much!

Back to Basics. We need this in the X-Men. Seeing a school, students, teenager problems, people trying to kill them.

Not much happened, maybe no the greatest story, yet it is in the right place. What i expect and love to see in an X-Men Book (after years of decay). Looking forward for more of this GenX.

overall good issue, looking forward to seeing how the relationships develop and see what they can do with this series.

The Purifiers are dispatched like the jobbers they are; Jubilee reveals that this clutch of students is the Xavier Institute's remedial vo-tech class. That's an intense disappointment to Bling and Quentin Quire, but it sounds just about perfect to newcomer Nate. I don't have fundamental objections to following low-powered mutants, but I don't like the defeatist "lower your expectations" attitude Jubilee hands them. If this doesn't turn into the story of great kids exceeding modest expectations *very* fast, it'll be a horrible waste of time and potential. Amilcar Pinna's distinctively weird art is shrinking on me rather than growing; his fisheye-lens faces appear to be a pony's single trick rather than one of many distinctive artistic tools.
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Honestly, I just wanted to say that the art really threw me off in these two issues. The faces are all weird and exaggerated. Some faces even look similar and Jubilee's teeth man whoa. None of the moments I actually came to like just saw them and said: " huh, okay". Look out of the new X-titles this could have been better. Stopping here at issue #2.

I was excited about the first issue, but the series really lost me here.

one character exosts because the author wanted a character with the same race as her



am i the only one who's irked by that

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MKW69 - Aug 2, 2018

You're FUCKING racist.

The-MJP - Aug 2, 2018

@MKW69 no i just feel Nature Boy is a blatant self-insert character and that Christina Strain is not even trying to hide it

The-MJP - Aug 2, 2018

@MKW69 when an author says they create a character just for the sake of inserting themselves into the story, that kind of tells me that the author is not very good

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