X-Men: Jubilee Leads New Generation X Series

Marvel Comics has revealed the creative team and roster that will make up the ResurrXion revival of Generation X.

Where the original Generation X focused on a class of young mutants attending Emma Frost’s Massachusetts Academy, the new Generation X sees the Xavier Institute reopening its doors to a new class of gifted youngsters.

Generation X will be written by Christina Strain and feature artwork by Amilcar Pinna (All-New Ultimates). The series sees original Generation X team member Jubilee tutoring a group of misfit mutants at the Xavier Institute, including Eye-Boy, Quentin Quire, Benjamin Deeds, Nature Girl, Bling and brand new character Nathaniel Carver.

Strain has a unique vision for the Xavier Institute in the ResurrXion era, one that includes bringing out of the Limbo dimensions, but the school won’t be returning the Westchester County. Instead, the school will reopen in Central Park in New York City.

“For years, the Xavier Institute has been a sort of safe haven for young mutants. Society rejects them, they go to the Institute, and then they’re taught how to control their powers, usually in hopes of eventually becoming X-Men,” Strain tells CBR. “But it’s dangerous. People die — sometimes by the busload. So when we take a second to be honest about it, maybe not all mutants are cut out to be X-Men? They’re not all going to be Cyclops, or Storm, or Jean Grey. And some young mutants have powers that just don’t make sense in a battle situation (I’m lookin’ at you, Cypher). So, in the interest of keeping more of their young alive, the Institute’s thinking it’s time for a restructure.

“Now in Central Park, the rechristened Xavier Institute has taken this move as an opportunity to re-evaluate their students, internally dividing the student body into three classes: The Next Generation of X-Men, the Next Generation of Ambassadors, and the Next Generation of… well, lovable losers. These are our Gen Xers. And they include mutants with benign powers, mutants who are considered liabilities during missions and/or battles, and mutants with personalities ill-fitting of an ambassador. They’re basically all mutants who just don’t seem to fit in anywhere — including the very school where they were promised they would fit in.”

Generation X #1 will launch in spring 2017, following Marvel’s Inhumans vs. X-Men event series. Check out Terry Dodson’s Generation X #1 teaser art below.

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