Generation
X
By
Scott
Lobdell and Elliot S! Maggin
This novel
took me a whopping 4 months to plow through. It had nothing to do
with length, since the book was the averag 270+ pages. No this
one took so long because it was so damn boring. Never have I
crept so slowly through a book before. I would leave this one on
my nightstand and start and finish several other books and go
back to this dreck. Anyway I finally did get through the thing
and this is easily the worst Marvel novel of the lot.
The plot of the novel involved Emma Frost's former Hellion
students coming back to life to haunt her new students of
Generation X. The book went on and on about their apparances and
at no time did you ever care about any of these characters being
haunted. We then are introduced to a throaway character by the
name of Walter. Walter is a new student at the school and added
nothing to the plot. As if the two authors didn't have enough
characters to mess with in Generation X. The authors then
committed one of my least favorite plot devices; the infamous
Bobby Ewing move. The dream scenerio is always a cheap shot to
the readers and this time by the villian D'Sparye.
This book only gets one web head out of four. The slow pacing and
zero character development really took this book down. Unless
your a die hard, gotta have everything X fan, pass this one up on
the bookshelf.