#hinsight

While this is a great article and one I fully recommend, I am kinda sad it does not include more less-known LGBTQ heroes from X-Men, like Karma, Mercury, Bling!, Anole, Morph or Hinsight. I do believe they deserve more spotlight, even if it would be a small note mentioning them to be minor characters like Shatterstar.

Kids go back to fight in Iceman #10.

An okay issue, Amp got beaten up by Michaela in a nice fashion and Ide got to make a badass stand against Daken. Bobby beat Daken with style and also gave some small explanation for why Daken is so out-of-character here when compared with All-New Wolverine, that basically boils down to Apocalypse Seed messing up with his mind - good enough for me to remove one of biggest problems that I know many fans had with this book, that is his portrayal. Similarly, Kitty goes and admit she was acting more like a bitter ex and less than a supportive friend and leader she said she would be for Bobby, so another complaint has been addressed and made into a plot point. In the end, it feels a lot of time the book threw it what we could see as a flaw only to utilize it later.

Of course, idiots are still complaining how “Bobby has no personality beyond being gay” and “BLERGH! IT’S STILL 2015 AND BENDIS IS WRITING IT!”. But what can you expect from that crowd?

GENERATION X #87

CHRISTINA STRAIN (W), AMILCAR PINNA (A) Cover by TERRY DODSON

Survival of the Fittest Part 3

* It's JUBILEE vs. M-PLATE...vampire vs. vampire!

* Will the GEN X class be able to defeat MONET/EMPLATE and save the school?

* All this, plus: Witness a major milestone for Jubilee!

Caught Up to two more series:

Generation X - I think this is one of the best X-Men books out there. it is written by someone with an incredible love for these characters and it shows - Christina Strain can easily dig into the minds of everyone from Jubilee through Bling! to Quentin Quire and provide a teen drama that feels incredibly honest at its heart.And I freaking adore the Nathaniel-Benjamin romantic subplot, with Quire tagging along as an annoyance. What I do feel is holding this book back is the need to adhere to superhero conventions and have supervillain attacks and battles, as these often feel merely derailing from more character-focused stuff and I regret Marvel doesn’t have any teen franchise where super battles are even more of a background for a teen drama. Maybe she should pitch to Marvel a Runaways book after Rainbow Rowell is done with her run?

Black Bolt - Okay, this is one of the most climatic books out there right now. Really dark, able to get you in the mood that feels as much as a space opera as it does a dark fantasy and psychological horror, it paints an interesting picture of Black Bolt, especially through his interactions with characters like Absorbing Man and little lien girl named Blinky, that Midnight King ends up taking care of. Blinky is an adorable sidekick and it helps she is written as a believable child. I also need to compliment Blackagar meeting Ahura in issue #8 and how much Saladin Ahmed was able to tell about their relationship in just a short scene and very few pages.

GENERATION X VOL. 2: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST TPB

Written by CHRISTINA STRAIN Penciled by ERIC KODA & AMILCAR PINNA Cover by TERRY DODSON

Morph, Kid Omega and Hindsight are trapped! Stuck in a villain-infested auction, the Gen X-ers must destroy a priceless weapon -- all without getting caught by the auctioneer, Kade Kilgore. Meanwhile, last we saw Monet St. Croix, she had merged with her vampiric brother, Emplate! Now, cursed with the hunger to feast on others, she has set her sights on Jubilee's new class! But what about the old class? When Paige Guthrie, A.K.A. Husk, returns, the stage is set for an OG Gen X reunion! But it won't be happy for any of them. Can Jubilee, Chamber and Husk save Monet? Or is she forever lost to her brother's curse? And will M-Plate feast on the kids of Generation X? Collecting GENERATION X (2017) #7-9 and #85-87.