You know, as much flack as Brandon Choi gets for being a shit writer, Gen 13 was quite a fun book. They really should revive it with a decent artist.
>>153681205Damn, Ariana Grande was in Gen 13?
>>153681205Honestly the problem was the lacking general vision at main Image.
Funny that there are tons of Fairchild, a little bit Freefall and near to nothing of Rainmaker fanart.
>>153681205Dead is better memories are safe from shit writers.
>>153682241I dunno maybe some people are nostalgic for it but it was mostly an universe comic team created for longevity that went nowhere like John Byrne's Nextmen
>>153682241Good point.
>>153682274Or like Generation X. There is a common thing that there is a starting idea that is followed by an aimless greater picture.
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>>153682304I don't even know if it's on purpose or just the way cape comics were done back then, self contained stories were non existant and everything required later expansion or previous entriesI was reading this back then and some of my favorite Adams worked on this Hughes and Warren, but I never shook the feeling that I was reading an x men copycat
>>153681205It's tricky, they're not as outdated as some anons have said. Look at how many surplus attempts at young, uncertain heroes fumbling through life have been attempted, but what could be done to retain significance compared to those is less clear.YA media has made fighting the man in the government and at school while wrestling with angst and puberty to be expected.
>>153681205They really shouldn't.
>>153681205Gen13 only works with Jeff Scott Campbell it's 100 percent an artist driven book, no one cared about the story.
>>153682241But Gen13 is shit writing.
>>153684301Yeah but shit then > shit now.
>>153682559Having some sort of bigger arch is quite common since the 70s. In the 80s they started to get longer or taking up older loose ends. But this isnt a big problem and Gen13 kinda did shorter story arcs. They kinda focused more on shorter with the mini-series and Gen13 Bootleg.
>>153684290It heavily lives and drives from the artist. But i liked the the first stories, the Not-Marylin Manson storyline and the DV8. The other stories are kinda fun but not that impressive.
>>153681205Choi is more like a scripter and did very little writing without Jim Lee or somebody else helping with plots. Early Gen13 is mostly Campbell, both plots and art>>153684290It does need good art but a lot of fans say Adam Warren's run is the peak of the book, you can clearly do it without Campbell. Also a lot of the early peak years of the book were drawn by Al Rio
>>153685588Built for Frostbite of DV8
>>153685974Magical Drama Queen Roxy and Grunge the Movie are good because Warren drew the book himself at his height, but his run as just writer was dogshit
>x-men, but sexyallrigh'
>>153686139But X-Men was already sexy
>>153686025I'm glad someone else agrees.I didn't mind Warren "fleshing out" Roxy and Grunge since his faux anime writing and art style fit. But when he was writing the entire title it wasn't working.
>>153687007Maybe I don't remember the plot really going anywhere
