Generation Legacy: Part Three

[Agamon]

I'm a very casual comic reader these days. None of the big titles have done a lot for me in years. I snipe TPBs that sound interesting on Wikipedia. I look forward to Blue Beetle monthly and follow Teen Titans a bit more casually. I'm kinda-sorta reading Young X-Men, but it isn't that good so far.

There's a Young X-Men, too? I suppose original names don't sell as well?

YA (the first trade, anyway) wasn't bad, but it had a couple consistancy problems, IMO. Looks like they were trying to recreate the "oh, wow" T-bolts 1st ish sorta thing. Fun read though.

 

[Shalimar]

I'm still having a bit of writer's block on Clover's breakout.

 

[Samnell]

There's a Young X-Men, too? I suppose original names don't sell as well?

I think it's a branding thing. They tried a few years ago to revive the New Mutants brand, then tried to piggyback the book on the name Morrison used on his run (New X-Men), and now they've got some of the characters from that book trying to revive the X-Force brand. Kind of odd, since the New Mutants book succeeded in launching a team book with what amounted to an entire main cast of new characters. That's hardly common these days.

 

[Agamon]

I'm still having a bit of writer's block on Clover's breakout.

Clover sighed, standing outside the school. The spring formal was tomorrow and she still didn't have a date.

"Hey, Clo, what's the matter?" asked [insert BFF name here].

"Still no luck on the date front," Clover lamented.

"Ha-ha!" [insert school jerk name here] laughed, pointing at the girl. "I have a better chance of getting hit by lightning than you getting a date, Clovenhoof!"

The rest writes itself. No need to thank me.

 

[KaintheSeeker]

The one story line I felt they left unresolved in the New Mutants was the 'Demon Bear' storyline. You see Dani defeat it.. but never find out what brought it all about.

 

[Shalimar]

Haha

Nah, Clover wouldn't stress about dances, she is more one of the guys than one of the girls. No, I have the perfect thing, the thing that everything in Europe is blamed on, Hooligans.

After a football match Clover and some friends were walking home when a bunch of supporters for the loosing team started to have a bit of a go with them. It was all good fun for Clover since she could bash heads with the best of them, until some nutter hits her over the back of the head with a bottle of whisky. The police are fairly on top of such things now, so they saw what happened, and a news crew or two that was leaving the game did as well.

Clover went out like a light, and the fight went out not a few seconds later as everyone was pitched about by a funnel cloud. After a moment, the tornado subsided and Clover was set gently on her feet from where she had been bobbing up and down in the middle of the tornado. Clover tipsily put her hand to the back of her head and asked the approaching cops in a slurred voice "Wha...happen?" she brought her hand back around to show herself the blood on it and waved it cheerfully at the cops and cameras. "Think I got hit on the head. I might even have a concusion." the girl said brightly. After that, Clover promptly fell down into a sitting position.

Not really knowing what else to do with an elite, and the fact that she was an attractive young girl with a possible major injury certainly played into it, but the Police took her to the hospital without any trouble. By the time she was released from the hospital a day later, the clip had been played and replayed hundreds of times, and the vultures were digging up everything they could find out about her, which ony lead to even more stories as her parentage and name came out.

I figure its been maybe a week or two since then. She has spent the time recovering from the concusion, and getting enrolled at the Academy. She hasn't gone out in public since. She did have a duel (historical fencing, think real fighting instead of that sissy sport fencing, as Clover would put it) scheduled for the weekend after the game, but her opponent backed out rather than fight an Elite, even a concussed one. If it weren't for the fact that after the football match was her break out, she might have had to give back some of her titles.

This leaves open whether or not you want to have some formal reaction to Clovers becoing of an Elite (the first noble Elite) before she heads to the academy.

 

[Samnell]

The one story line I felt they left unresolved in the New Mutants was the 'Demon Bear' storyline. You see Dani defeat it.. but never find out what brought it all about.

Shortly before they went mutant terrorist, it was picked up in an X-Force plot. I don't think they explained it there either.

It might be something that was written in with the intention of explaining later and then plans changed. X-Men continuity is littered with those, including some that were very ominous at the time. I recall a book from ca. 1990 that made note that the government was rounding up mutant children. Considering the era and the fact that it's an X-Men book, that was probably meant as a major piece of information. Never heard from again.

Something that was definitely meant to be a major thing was Doug Ramsey being infected with the Transmode virus. The dangers of his bonding with Warlock were talked up repeatedly, and yet Doug once even fed Warlock from his own lifeforce and (in one of my favorite stories) they do a full gestalt routine where Claremont tells us the two find it difficult to distinguish between themselves. They did a whole issue where Doug dreamed that he had been infected, transformed, and killed all the New Mutants. Then he wakes us, goes and combs his perfect 80s hair in the mirror, and the panel zooms in on a small piece of Warlock-style circuitry in his eye. This would have been about a year or eighteen months before Claremont left the title so it was probably a longterm plan of his. When Douglock came along, they gave him an unconnected origin. He was entirely Warlock, just with Doug's memories.

 

[Agamon]

This leaves open whether or not you want to have some formal reaction to Clovers becoing of an Elite (the first noble Elite) before she heads to the academy.

I think the crown would do what it can to put a positive spin on such a thing, media-wise. We support her, she'll do well representing the British people, learning about her new power and experiencing a new culture will be good for her, blah, blah, blah.

Seeing as no one really sees it as divine right anymore, nobles are people like everyone else, after all. She'll just have a bigger spotlight on her, especially back home.

 

[Agamon]

Shortly before they went mutant terrorist, it was picked up in an X-Force plot. I don't think they explained it there either.

It might be something that was written in with the intention of explaining later and then plans changed. X-Men continuity is littered with those, including some that were very ominous at the time. I recall a book from ca. 1990 that made note that the government was rounding up mutant children. Considering the era and the fact that it's an X-Men book, that was probably meant as a major piece of information. Never heard from again.

Something that was definitely meant to be a major thing was Doug Ramsey being infected with the Transmode virus. The dangers of his bonding with Warlock were talked up repeatedly, and yet Doug once even fed Warlock from his own lifeforce and (in one of my favorite stories) they do a full gestalt routine where Claremont tells us the two find it difficult to distinguish between themselves. They did a whole issue where Doug dreamed that he had been infected, transformed, and killed all the New Mutants. Then he wakes us, goes and combs his perfect 80s hair in the mirror, and the panel zooms in on a small piece of Warlock-style circuitry in his eye. This would have been about a year or eighteen months before Claremont left the title so it was probably a longterm plan of his. When Douglock came along, they gave him an unconnected origin. He was entirely Warlock, just with Doug's memories.

LOL, see I read all this back in the day, but I'd be damned if I could recall it all. I have the most horrible long term memory. That or the dozens of comics I was getting each month back then may have something to do with it.

 

[Samnell]

LOL, see I read all this back in the day, but I'd be damned if I could recall it all. I have the most horrible long term memory. That or the dozens of comics I was getting each month back then may have something to do with it.

I would have read this issue for the first and last time about early late 2000, early 2001. At the time, most backissues dating to the 80s were dirt cheap and a small chain of comic stores downstate was going out of business. So for about two years they were selling all backissues for a dollar each. Later on it got down to a dollar each and buy one, get one free. I plundered them shamelessly.

But yeah, I have very good long term memory too.