Title: Generation X Holiday Special – “Yes, Jubilee, there IS a Santa Claus,” a.k.a. “The Nanny & Orphan-Maker Christmas Kidnapping Extravaganza”
Writer: Joseph “Joe” Harris
Penciller: Adam Pollina
Inkers: Morales, Faber, Leigh, Wong and Wiacek
Colorist: Paul Tutrone
Letterer: RS/Comicraft/Liz
Editor: Frank Pittarese
Editor-In-Chief: Bob Harras (Boooooooooo! Boooooo on you sir!)
Summary:
A mutant boy named Matthew has trouble with bullies, who torment him until he uses his powers to repell them and they call him even more of a freak than before. You may say he’s “special,” but he’d probably disagree.
Matthew thinks kidnapping Santa Claus will solve all his problems, but the truth is his real problem is with Orphan-Maker and Nanny, who want to celebrate their Christmas tradition of making a mutant child into an orphan. Luckily, Generation X and Santa put a stop to their plans.
Initial Thoughts
For the holiday season it’s time to talk about one of my favorite X-Men teams created by one of my least favorite writers of all time.
Before Marvel sold the movie rights to the X-Men and ended up ruining everything with “House of M” and “Decimation,” they developed at least one teen X-Men group for each decade. Starting in the 1980s, there were the New Mutants, the 90s had Generation X, and the early 2000s started off with Academy X until Marvel stupidly depowered 98% of their mutant characters. From the mid 2000s to this year they burned through several different young X-Men groups that were lucky if they ever managed to make it to double digit issues before getting cancelled. Hopefully, Jonathan Hickman’s “Dawn of X” titles will finally fix the damage.