Monday, December 13, 2010

Generation X #17

Written by: Scott Lobdell and Stan Lee
Pencils by: Chris Bachalo
Inks by: Mark Buckingham

This one is from Jorge's vault. It's an in-between issue from a later arc where the kids had to fight Monet's brother Emplate, and are moving firmly towards this Onslaught business. In the way, Jubilee comforts her BFF Everett (who was possessed by Emplate!), and Emma Frost questions Monet in what must be the the most spacious limousine ever.

What really makes this issue stand out is the Stan Lee vignettes that interrupt the story and makes an awkward transition between scenes. It's very hokey even for Stan Lee, and it reinforces the fact that this issue does not flow at all.

The funniest thing though is Skin's (Angelo Espinosa) story. Skin has the most disgusting power, stretching his skin into all shapes with visceral sound effects like "FWAP!". He also talks perfect English except for a few Spanish words here and there. Traveling from Boston with Chamber (Jonothon not a typo!) who has no nose or mouth, doesn't need to breathe but can talk, they were attacked by the X-CUTIONER! A guy who used to be a detective and found some armor and junk and now kills mutants who killed people. He's such a good detective, this X-CUTIONER, that he thinks the mutants Skin who is also Angel Espinosa violently killed...Angel Espinosa! Not even a perfect DNA match dissuades the X-CUTIONER! So Skin and and X-CUTIONER fight their way through a carnival house of wax and the story ends.

The best line is the last one, as Skin carries Chamber and tries to flag a truck or car, he murmurs: "What self respecting truck driver isn't going to pull over for a half-blown away leather clad English man, HIS FAITHFUL PUERTO RICAN SIDEKICK, and six extra feet of skin?" So Skin, who saved the day, casts himself as the sidekick because he's Puerto Rican? OUCH.

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