After New Mutants and X-Force, Generation X is another Marvel Comics series set in the X-Men Universe. Created by Scott Lobdell and Chris Bachalo, the Generation X team first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #318 (November 1994) during the “Phalanx Covenant” storyline and immediately got its own monthly series.
Generation X is the first team of X-Men not mentored by Charles Xavier, but by Banshee and former supervillainess Emma Frost (aka the White Queen). In fact, these young mutants did not attend Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters in upstate New York, but the Massachusetts Academy, located in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
During the first volume, Generation X consisted of Jubilee (Jubilation Lee), Chamber (Jonothon “Jono” Starsmore), Husk (Paige Guthrie), M (Monet St. Croix), Mondo, Penance, Skin (Angelo Espinosa), Synch (Everett Thomas), and Gaia.
Generation X Reading Order
Generation X Volume 1
- Generation X Epic Collection: Back To School
Collects Uncanny X-Men #316-318, X-Men (1991) #36-37, Generation X #1-9, Wolverine #94, Generation X Collectors’ Preview (1994) #1, Generation X Ashcan Edition #1 - Generation X Epic Collection: Emplate’s Revenge
Collects Generation X (1994) #10-23 and Annual ’95-’96, Generation X San Diego Preview, and material from Incredible Hulk Annual ’97.
- Generation X Epic Collection: Secret of M
Collects Generation X #24-32, -1 and Annual ’97, X-Men Unlimited (1993) #16, Marvel Team-Up (1997) #1, Daydreamers #1-3, and Generation X Underground #1.- #26-31 are also collected in X-Men: Operation Zero Tolerance.
not collected yet: Generation X #33-62.
In 2000, writers Warren Ellis and Brian Wood revamped Generation X as part of the Counter-X rebranding of several X-titles. It helped the series to move forward, but the title was canceled after #75. Therefore, the team disbanded and the Massachusetts Academy closed.
- Counter-X 2
Collects Generation X #63-70. Issues #67-70 are part of the Shockwave storyline. - Counter-X: Generation X – Four Days
Collects Generation X #71-75.
Once the series concluded, Emma Frost became a core member of Grant Morrison’s New X-Men team; Jubilee, Husk, and M, appeared as part of Banshee’s X-Corps; Penance (now renamed “Hollow”) appeared in the limited series Loners.
Generation X Volume 2
Following Inhumans vs. X-Men, the place of the X-Men changed dramatically in the world, and especially in New York as X-Haven was teleported from Limbo to Central Park and renamed the Xavier Institute for Mutant Education. Sixteen years have passed since the original series ended. In this second volume, launched in 2017, that was as part of ResurrXion, Jubilee became the mentor for a new group of students.
- Generation X, Volume 1: Natural Selection
Collects Generation X #1–6. - Generation X, Volume 2: Survival of the Fittest
Collects Generation X #6–9, #85–87.