Generation X #15 & 16

[iamrman]

Writers: Scott Lobdell and Todd DeZago

Pencils: Tom Grummett

Inks: Al Milgrom

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While most of the team are elsewhere dealing with a transformed Synch, Skin and Chamber are left at home.

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Generation X #15.

Generation X #16.

Comments

[zachbeacon]

This has me wanting to shout at the characters like they're idiot teens in a horror movie.

Onslaught erasing memories only for Chamber to immediately recognize the motivation behind it feels very careless. Just change the kid's memory so he thinks he saw Magneto or something; that's partially true anyway.

It is weird that Skin is putting this much blind faith in Charles. I could see that with Jubilee or maybe even Husk but most of these kids are primarily Emma's students and I wouldn't expect them to drink the X-Men Kool-aid. Sure Sean was on the team but it was such a relatively short period of his life and he's just as likely to tell the kids to call Moira in a super power health emergency (was she "dead" at the time?).

PS: Oh, hi Carl.

[iamrman]

It did strike me as weird that Angelo would put such faith in a guy he had hardly met.

At this time Moira was quarantining herself after she got the Legacy Virus.

[zachbeacon]

One of them is a former gang member who had to fake his death to protect the people he cares about.

One of them is a rich talking head on the television...who also fakes his death a lot but it's more about self-preservation.

I just don't see them hitting it off.

[bravest_spinja]

Writing-wise, this was off the "If Charles Xavier didn't exist North America would be an actual hellhole" event combined really trying to lay the dramatic irony on thick. (And we were still a ways off from the the really sinister retcons and "Xavier is a jerk" memes. To be honest, this is probably where this direction for the character truly started to go this route, probably because Mark Waid was not the biggest fan of X-Men, in his youth, or the six months he was writing the book.)

In universe, one could easily read Skin reallyn not having a lot of options, and trying to reassure his friend, and easily himself.

[zachbeacon]

I suppose it does make more sense when you consider that this series was immediately derailed for four months by AoA.

[cainofdreaming]

AoA stopped Onslaught for four months? Apparently I did not appreciate it enough.

[cainofdreaming]

"For the crime of killing yourself I sentence you to death!"

Also "... who can you count on..?" Preferably? Almost anyone else.

Edit - I mean, there's a special right now whose title is pretty much "Xavier did a bad, bad thing."

[scorntx]

At some point, Charles does so many bad things it's probably going to have to be upgraded to "Charles did a bad, bad, bad thing".
Just to make clear that this bad thing is somehow worse than all the other bad things he's done.

[zachbeacon]

Ever since Onslaught, it feels like most X-Men plots boil down to either ""Xavier did a bad, bad thing." or "the mutants are moving to a new location.". Sometimes both.

[scorntx]

With the occasional "Mutants are on the verge of extinction" throw in.

[zachbeacon]

Decimation had most of the other mutants moving into the school.

(And the X-Mutants moving out ...or getting blown up)