Generation Hope Issue 11 Review

It is now time to reach right into the really big comic book box of doom and pull out another issue for a random comic book review. This issue is Generation Hope #11. In this issue, Hope Summers and her fellow young mutants have to plan their next move as a Super Sentinel attacks.

Generation Hope Issue 11 Review

Generation Hope Issue 11 was released by Marvel Comics with a cover date of November 2011, with the title "Schism-Part 2", part of the X-Men: Schism event. Generation Hope Issue 11 was written by Kieron Gillen, with Tim Seeley on art, Val Staples and Stocolor on colors, Dave Sharpe as the letterer.

At one time, it was less transparent that comic book comics were writing for the trade. Writing for some huge event. These days, it is rather painfully obvious that it is all just for the event, all for the trade. All to really hype. It doesn't really matter how good the comics are, or how memorable the comics are. It just matters that they were bought.

I've reviewed comics dating back to the late 1970s and read a few much earlier than that and there is really something interesting. In the 1970s and 1980s, a comic book was something that could be picked up and enjoyed. There was some level of continuity but it was rather easy to jump on to read them. In the 1990s, it was the era of the anti-hero. The era of shock and awe, the era of things that are bigger, badder, more extreme.

Then into the 2000s, more and more, comic book comics were defined by the big events, but there was still enough substance for each individual issue to matter. But as we got later into the decade, it became all about hype. With Marvel and with DC.

Which brings us to the comic review. Now as Generation Hope was, it wasn't necessary bad, but it wasn't necessary good. It wasn't necessary much of anything. It does make me remember why I mostly tapped out of comic books in the past five years. I do give this comic book credit for letting us know a little bit about the characters.

Characters that I doubt anyone would really care about if they weren't picking up this issue to really get the entire series of X-Men Schism. And boy other than that little introduce, you barely got any sense of the characters. Blank slates that could be made useful in the hands of writers at a different time, with more time being focused on character building and less about awe inspiring artwork.

At another time, this entire series and these characters might have been more engaging. Have there many new characters that have been long lasting in the past ten years? Only a handful of characters as it turns out. The X-Men were once new, the New Mutants were once new, and these Generation Hope kids could be something.

But because of how comics are these days, they had the misfortune of being created during a time where new characters don't stick well and comic books have to go back to the same old characters and stories.

Only one for the completists.