Generation Hope: The End of a Generation by James Asmus

Generation Hope: The End of a Generation Reviews

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  Paul

  I really enjoyed this final volume of Generation Hope, although I thought Hope was let off a little lightly considering she was basically doing the same thing Kenji was throughout the series (albeit in not quite such a disgusting manner). I'd like to see these characters show up more in the current X-books.
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  Terence

  Hope continues her quest to find and help new mutants, but she comes to find someone quite unexpected. The team issues have grown much larger than anyone fathomed.
  
  The End of a Generation uses some overused plot points in the science fiction genre. I'll only mention one because the other would spoil the story. Hope and the team find Sebastian Shaw who has been forced into amnesia thanks to Emma Frost. Since he's a mutant of course they helped him.
  
  The animosity that has built up on and at team Hope is quite surprising. It was clear some people didn't like her and her team, but the depths of the issues were more than I expected. I was satisfied overall with how the problems were handled.
  
  Generation Hope was an average series and this edition definitely set that in my mind. I would have really appreciated some more creativity, but it seems that when it comes to people with super powers it may actually have all been done before. If the storytelling was stronger I'm sure I wouldn't have been as bothered with the familiar powers and issues.
  
  2.5 out of 5
  
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  Jesús De la Jara

  Durante un viaje a Palestina en busca de un nuevo mutante Hope y su equipo de jóvenes mutantes se encuentra con Sebastian Shaw. Él había sido convertido en un nuevo hombre cuando Emma Frost decidió borrarle su memoria completamente y ahora vagando por el mundo parece algo inofensivo.
  El fin de la serie me resultó bastante tibio aunque coherente con lo que se empezaba a armar en los primeros capítulos. Una serie que refrescó algo la serie mutante.
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  Elin the Lightship

  Newsflash everyone: I love Hope.
  I've followed her every step and her life has never and I mean NEVER been easy and I can relate to her in a weird way, even though I've never been through anything similar.
  Her new Lights have only known her a short period of time and they only see what she shows them. Which is not much. And they assume. They judge.
  If you get hurt enough you eventually shut out everyone, just to avoid getting hurt again. The facade you put up is a self-defense-mechanism and if that mask is hard enough it's all that people see.
  If they're bothered with that, many just take it out on the statue, they don't see past the shell. They don't try to dig deeper. Try to talk.
  Just eliminate the problem, "it" doesn't seem to have emotions or care about anything anyway, right? It's just pretend. Pretending to benefit her
  What if you care too much and don't know how to handle it?
  Feared or hated by almost everyone, how can she see anything in this dark? Being secretly afraid of being despised by all, and it shows up that all everyone ever needed to hate you deeply was a little little push?
  My nightmares becomes true in this novel and I almost wanted to die.
  I'm an emotional wreck and no one can see me like this, me being weak, so I won't be seeing people for a week or so now, ok.
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  Laserbrain

  The Gen Hope series was a little underrated in my opinion. Sure it wasn't anything that changed the X-Universe drastically but I love Hope and the further character development and depth of her and her teammates made it well worth the read.
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  C

  Continuing the great x-read of 2017/2018... (and I am very far behind on reviews again so this batch will once again be short. One of these days I will get back to reviewing each volume as I finish them so they don't all sort of start bleeding together in my head as they tend to do.)
  
  So this is how a generation ends - not with a bang but a whimper (a cliché whimper at that).
  
  The X-books spent a year building up the Mutant Messiah (TM) only to give her a boring book full of paper cutout characters (who could all be interesting but just aren't... I mean Velocidad's aging could be a fascinating story - how does he decide when to use his power, etc... but it's a pointless subplot that goes nowhere.) and have her make no impact on the Marvel universe whatsoever. So far, Hope has been a huge disappointment after being so interesting when she was introduced.
  
  This whole series has been forgettable on pretty much every level.
  
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  Austin Gorton

  Hard not to feel like this was a story cut short before it ever really got started, with the introduction of Sebastian Shaw to the series going nowhere before the events of "Avengers vs. X-Men" bring the book to a close, while the conflict with Hope amongst Zero and the rest of team is brought to a head & resolved presumably quicker & more abruptly than Ausmus intended (or would have liked). Not really this series' fault (such is the world of shared narrative commercial fiction), but it nevertheless impedes enjoyment of it as a finite unit.
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  Sean

  The closing collection to the series, James Asmus and a group of artists deliver a deeply disappointing tale of.......redemption? Revenge? Betrayal? I really don't know. The plot makes no sense. The reintroduction of a classic X-Men foe should have had an impact but fails to. The art was unfortunate because it never conveys any emotion. The characters all seemed like bad xeroxes of themselves or others. Overall, a complete miss.
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  Jesse

  Pretty dang good ending to the series. Kenji made for a pretty interesting villain. I liked the Emma Frost/Sebastian Shaw stuff, taking off from earlier issues of Uncanny X-Men. I liked having Pixie on the team, and the stuff with Velocidad is cool, but I wish it was even more of a thing. They're cute together though. Not a whole lot to say, but it was good.
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  Judah Radd

  Generation Hope is an interesting title.
  
  On one hand, this team is team stands out with interesting characters and drama.
  
  On the other hand, some of the subtext seems a bit on the nose (I groaned when Hope, the mutant messiah, ended up on a cross.
  
  The art is really good. This compliments Kieron’s UXM quite nicely.
  
  I looks forward to seeing the shit eventually hit the fan.
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  Klaus

  Ibraim Roberson's artwork brought new life to the pages. The level of detail in the artwork was breathtaking. The story was fine, not a huge fan of the "villain turns good because they lost their memory" trope but I enjoyed it as a vehicle for Ibraim's drawings.
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  Thomas Crawford

  Clearly word came down about the cancellation after a couple of the plot lines in this arc kick off. There’s a whole redemption arc for Shaw that goes nowhere, unfortunately.
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  Joshua Buhs

  The end, indeed. And some further notes on the limitations of comics as a storytelling medium.
  
  A new artistic team takes over and, as is the wont of the recently arrived, some redecorating is in order. In particular, Sebastain Shaw is introduced as a possible hero--of course, he's lost all memory of his despicable past. It's the kind fo bravura move that happens a lot in comics--and years down the road will make sense, and even make for an interesting character, what with him no doubt torn between his deplorable past and difficult (but good!) present. At the time, though, the point seems forced.
  
  The other problem is that the story ends--mid-arc. It's a problem for other forms of serial storytelling--I want to know what happens to the TV shows "Terriers" and "The Unusuals," and never will.
  
  All that is not to say I disliked the comic. Again, it was a (mostly) fine story competently told and illustrated.
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  Mike

  Passable, adds a bit of new character development to the legends of Hope and The Lights. Definitely stretching out the growth of the Phoenix in Hope - almost no progression, but plenty of angst and hand-wringing by people around her. Finally we get to see Martha with a personality - that's probably the most interesting aspect of this story. As always, with a series that's on the chopping block, the artist rotation was jarring and definitely detracted from the story.
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  Shannon Appelcline

  Sadly, a real step down for the book. Asmus’ writing is poorly developed, as are the characters. He seems determined to drop in his pre-set plots without much care about how he gets there. The erratic and sometimes horrible art just makes things worse. The Sebastian Shaw plot and the occasional bit of humor that made me laugh out loud were all that saved the book.
  
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  Frans Kempe

  The end to the miniseries of Hope and her Lights. We meet Sebastian Shaw and Zero turns evil.
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  Sharon

  Individual issues on marvel unlimited
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  Daniel

  I loved it.
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  Ryan Viergutz

  Hope is great. A pretty conventional ending though.