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Generation Hope #12 - "Half As Bright"

Generation Hope – probably one of my least remembered things, which strikes me as fair – it only landed properly as we inched towards the end of the year. The plot was basically “Is Hope Good Or Bad?” when the answer was “Her Dad died a few days before the issue started. She’s fucked up.” Only in mainstream death-happy superhero comics would that work as a twist. -- Kieron Gillen

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Generation Hope #10-11 - "Schism"

Idie is hard work. And she has a direct, channeling power to her. I mean, when I tapped out, "I won't burn in this world. I'll burn in the next" for issue #5, I found myself sort of blinking at my screen and thinking both "Where did that come from?" and, "Girl, you scare me." In other words, I'll miss writing her. But I suspect the people around me in the life are glad they don't have to deal with me slumping around the house, depressed, after I've had to write her. -- Kieron Gillen

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Generation Hope #9 - "Better"

When the stories [about gay teen suicide] started to break, the first place I heard about it was actually from Fraction. We'd just passed the baton, and he said "If I was still writing the X-Men…". I read the news and could only agree. It's not the type of story that fits in any other major superhero book. It's simply not what those books are about. But the X-Men? X-Men is a book about mutants, used as a metaphor about prejudice. And of the X-Men books, Generation Hope is fundamentally about new mutants trying to survive dealing with the fact they're mutants. With the metaphor in place, you can not just do a story about it – I dare say you should tell a story about it. In a real way, it's the sort of story Generation Hope exists to tell. If we can't tell this story and tell it as well as we can, the book may as well not exist. -- Kieron Gillen

Content warning: Suicide

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Generation Hope #8 - "The Ward, Part 3"

Teon is a primal character who's all about aggression and instinct. I'm interested in the idea of instincts; what they actually mean and how we use instinct. How much of our conscious thought is actual instinct that we assign meaning to after the fact? There's an interesting paradox of consciousness in that the signal in the brain which raises my arm happens before the signal of the conscious thought. So there's one theory that the thought signal is a side effect of the action, in which case everything we do is instinct. That's an incredibly scary thing to think about. Teon is an exploration of that. How much can you get by on instinct? And how can you adapt to your current situation in a highly proficient manner? That's what Teon ends up doing. -- Kieron Gillen

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Generation Hope #6-7 - "The Ward," Parts 1-2

Jean wouldn't walk around with guns for a start. She wouldn't impulsively ignore the rest of the team and go off on her own desires (ala the first "Generation Hope" arc). She didn't have the odd state of grace that Morrison's Jean had -- and I mean "grace" in its religious sense (e.g. the bit where she lets Sage into her mind in the Emma-Frost-Murder-Mystery arc). The temper is about the only real connection I can see, and Hope's temper is much more a physical thing. Hope punches people out when she's annoyed with them, as a matter of first course. Jean wouldn't go around wearing a ratty scarf for a month either. -- Kieron Gillen

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Generation Hope #5 - "The Daddy Issue"

With the exception of the complete death of the town she was born in, she's not someone whose experienced a large amount of anti-mutant prejudice. She didn't grow up with it. So she's aware she's a mutant, but her actual experience of what it means to be a mutant is different from any other mutant whose grown up in this world. She doesn't have the basic assumption of, 'This is how it has to be.' She may be naive, but on the other hand she's also got this ability to imagine things different from how they are. -- Kieron Gillen

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Generation Hope #3-4 - "The Future Is a Four-Letter Word," Parts 3-4

Some readers have commented that Kenji is behaving like the character Tetsuo in the anime adaptation of 'Akira.' That resemblance is deliberate and highly stated. I mean, the first line in the whole comic is, "I am becoming art." What I'm trying to do with Kenji is [show] that he's an artist, and I wanted to talk about the idea of creation. He consumes culture, and now his body starts acting in a certain way. He could have created anything, but he hasn't. He's acting like he's in 'Akira' because he's watched 'Akira.' It's how he thinks he should act, it's the only way he can process the horror of his body starting to warp. It brings to mind that wonderful scene in 'Preacher' where Cassidy takes the piss out of another vampire who's doing the whole gothic thing. He's like, 'Why the hell are you acting like that?' That's what's going on with Kenji. He's somebody who's consumed all this art, and now, because of that, how he instinctively chose to apply his power is kind of derivative. Of course, what's interesting about him is that he makes his living doing high art, but underneath it all is this stuff from the pulp tradition. And as we progress, he becomes more his own thing. It's the concept of what inspires you when you're trying something new out. -- Kieron Gillen

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Generation Hope #1-2 - "The Future Is a Four-Letter Word," Parts 1-2

I did things I thought would be obvious and realised that people are just going to miss 95% of the stuff. I mean, Generation Hope’s first arc featured someone basically turning into Tetsuo from Akira – it was a whole art/inspiration/derivative story, etc. I had the whole first page him going on about I AM BECOMING ART and all that jazz, and figured that was fine. No, it wasn’t. I don’t think anyone got it, and I had to leverage some stuff in later in the story to make what I thought was obvious clear. If I were to rewrite it, I’d have plastered an Akira poster in his room, at the very least. -- Kieron Gillen

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generation hope #16 preview

( two pages - lettered, so please beware of spoilers )

Two more can be found at the source.

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Most of the obvious puns might be seen as cruel or rude to fans, but...

I'm sorry, I have to do it now that James Asmus has confirmed the future of the Generation Hope title over at Newsarama;

( All Hope abandon, ye who enter here! )

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thank you, emma

In Generation Hope #14, Hope and the Lights found a mind-wiped (by Emma) Sebastian Shaw in Pakistan and brought him to Utopia.

He's welcomed with open arms, obviously.

( two spoilery pages from Gen Hope #15 )

Hope and Quentin Quire should hang out and hook up imho. Hot couple, Just Jared Jr material.

Other stuff is happening to the Lights that don't matter in this issue as well, btw.

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in his image

( 4 spoilery images for Generation Hope #14 )

The rest of the body needs some work, but the breasts are perf!

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the manliest man!

With Cyclops, Emma, Magneto, and Namor, the Blue X-team is sort of overloading with A-type personalities.

But who is the biggest A of all?

Gen Hope #13, other than being super creepy, answers that question!

( an ego was bruised! )

Creators: Asmus & Roberson

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Generation Hope 13

So, is anyone else kind of... unnerved by Hope?

( Some seemingly poor decisions )

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A visit at the museum of Mutant History

Since we've had all those spirited discussions about Hope's criticism of Xavier's school; and then contrasted with Dani's criticism of both Logan and Scott's position after Schism; I thought it'd be interesting to post some other scans from Generation Hope; right at the start of Schism, which explores the History of mutants, as a counterpoint:

It starts with Idie being surprised by the idea that stopping Sentinels is the thing to do; since she views herself as a mutants as a monster. Laurie tries to explain that Sentinels aren't really for protecting humans from evil mutants.

( 3 scans & about a half of Generation Hope 10 )

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Hope and Laurie and a gun

So I mentioned this, and then I never posted it; so there it is! The fall out from the Laurie and Hope tension during Schism (err, not that sort of tension, sorry), in Generation Hope #12.

Then again...

Perhaps it is that sort of tension, hmmm.

( 3 pages and a half in panels )

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Generation Hope 10

( Because people have been asking about Idie's Motivations )

Generation Hope #12 - "Half As Bright"

Generation Hope #10-11 - "Schism"

Generation Hope #9 - "Better"

Generation Hope #8 - "The Ward, Part 3"

Generation Hope #6-7 - "The Ward," Parts 1-2

Generation Hope #5 - "The Daddy Issue"

Generation Hope #3-4 - "The Future Is a Four-Letter Word," Parts 3-4

Generation Hope #1-2 - "The Future Is a Four-Letter Word," Parts 1-2

generation hope #16 preview

Most of the obvious puns might be seen as cruel or rude to fans, but...

thank you, emma

in his image

poor martha

the manliest man!

Generation Hope 13

A visit at the museum of Mutant History

Hope says what I've always felt about mutant relations

Hope and Laurie and a gun

Meanwhile in Generation Hope... hey, is that the new X-Men?

Generation Hope 10