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Okay, everyone who thought Mondo wasn’t really given a chance, raise your hand. I remember the pre-launch Gen X hype like yesterday and I distinctly remember being psyched for this character in particular. Remember, his personality M.O. was “unshakable,” –that he didn’t have a fighting spirit, despite possessing massive power. I was sooo anxious to see how this would be handled. Then… I guess… it just… wasn’t.I really enjoy Mondo’s powers. Merging with matter has endless possibilities. That’s why it took me so long to draw him. I wanted to show him using his powers in a unique way. But then I fell back on the tree idea because anything else would have been too difficult to convey, given my skills. I’m glad I went with my first idea because am quite proud of my tree drawing.
And NO, I did not give him a tree dick. Check it out at anti-heroes.net > members gallery > fanboy.
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i was only 2 yrs old when the series was cancelled (so i was a bit late to the party XD) but i did read the entire Gen X series (including Gen Next) and i loved Mondo!!! his powers were awesome and i just feel like theres so much that couldve been done with his character. Being Samoan myself it breaks my heart to see Marvels only Samoan brushed away so abruptly. we didnt even find out his real name.
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OMG yer making me feel old! lol. Gen X has a special place for me because it came out when I was a teenager. I was already super into X-Men and was psyched that I'd get an X-Group that focused on my "generation" lol. Around the late 90's though (Marvel bankruptcy; low time for comics in general) I abandoned the title(s) and only collected sporadically since then.
That is a shame about Mondo being the only Samoan Marvel character. I can speak from experience about having special affinity for a character who shares your ethnicity. It feels a bit like a slap in the face when said character gets fucked over. You think to yourself "Hm, bet this wouldn't happen to Wolverine. Or Gambit. Or Cyclops. Or Iceman. Or even the lesser known white male characters. As it stands now, Chamber, the sole white male GenX member, is the sole male survivor of the group.
As I said in another reply though, all these ideas are pretty cyclical, so I'd expect GenX to be revisited at some point in the future. Theoretically, Marvel could revive all the lost GenX'ers with comic science. Hopefully Synch, Skin and Mondo will get the treatment they (and their audiences) deserve.
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I liked Mondo too. It's a shame how they wrote him off, and worst of all, that his progenitor was a villain.
What do you think Mondo's human name would have been, being Samoan and all?
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Oh I dunno Samoan names so I've no clue. I will say this though: all comic ideas are cyclical and it feels a bit like we'll get a Gen X redux in the near future. If they're smart, it could be their chance to bring Mondo back for reals.
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I like this design! I found a few Gen X issues this month (never read it before) and he happened to be in him, and I really liked him (even though, according to the Internet, the one I like is apparently a clone and I haven't actually seen the real one?) I thought his chill, totally non-combative personality was a good addition to the others, from what I can tell of them from the few issues I've read, and I wish the plot with Cordelia had gone further (I think she and Shinobi should have teamed up, they'd be kind of great together as a 'younger failed successors to villain families' sort of thing---not that great for going up against adult X-Men but almost peers for the Gen-x kids)
Anyway, on your drawing itself, I think it's fun! It illustrates his power, and you captured his body type really well.
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Yea, I think the character concept was just probably something no one wanted to really write. We should also take into account another GenX character, Blink, was also introduced only briefly in the main U only to mainly explore a more hardcore version in the AoA. Same thing happened with Mondo-- he was much more of a deal in the AoA. Still-- the kinda pacifist, chilled-out hero is one I don't think I've ever seen, so the concept really intrigued me. Like, how does someone who's anti-war deal with living in the middle of one every day- lol.
I thought they were setting up a sorta baby Hellfire Club with Shinobi and Cordelia-- an idea I really ran with. I thought of so many characters who should be in it-- serving as rivals to GenX like the Hellions were to the New Mutants. I also thought Marrow and the Gene Nation should have stayed GenX rivals rather than the grown X-Men. I think since I was a teenager when that book came out, I very much identified with it. I'm sad the characters are dead or shit now.
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This looks great! The only thing I would change is to make him look a tad bit more native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander in appearance.
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Thanks! I agree! Did you see my Forge? I feel like I did his ethnicity proud in that one at least.
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Nice job! Love when neglected, obscure characters get fan art. It's something I'm a big fan of in my gallery too. The tree merging worked really well here.
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thanks! He's a cool char-- hope I did him justice!
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Ah, Mondo. As I seem to say often on you pieces, I'm fond of his concept/design, in general and what you've done with him here. Also, I love it when you draw roundsome guys. ^^
Also... Poor Mondo. I wish Lobdell's plan had been followed, and the real Mondo had been left on his island...
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Thanks! Man was 13 year old JC hyped. I just remember seeing his sketches and being like "wow, they really mean it when they say no more Barbie/Ken mutants! This guy is plump! 2 Black kids, 2 gross skin-related mutants, a guy with a hole on fire, and a spiky chick! This is gonna be a revolution in comics!
And then... it wasn't.
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I know what you mean. It was a visually eclectic bunch of mutants, and they never really played up that angle. Their powers (Just about everyone but M or Jubilee) or personalities (M) were not really pleasant to watch or interact with. 'twould have been interesting to pursue the X-Men's "losers' club" aspect of the characters.
But once the Dodsons got involved.... Everyone got so pretty. In terms of art, it just lost something. Granted, the writing had been gone for a while... I miss the early Bachalo/Lobdell issues...
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yea i remember being turned off by the switch. I hated the new costumes, "real M," Gaia or whatever the fuck she was called- lol, Synch's death, White Queen 2.0 (oh wait I mean Adrienne,) and the fact that I never got my Sean/Emma romance.
I guess I shouldn't complain though about the characters being shafted or underused, because I was definitely one of those thousands of kids who just stopped reading after the switch. In a way, I contributed to the series/ characters' downfall.
Funny though, now that Dodson is the main X-Dude-- coming from an X- title that kinda failed.
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I'd forgotten that they never followed through on the Sean/Emma relationship. I guess with Sean dead and Evita, er, Emma hooking up with Scott, that's just another dead plotline.
I did stop collecting Generation X, but my brother picked it up, so I got to keep reading it (without pissing off my comic shop guy). Honestly, I'd rather my favorite obscure characters stay in limbo. It's safer there...
Honestly, I do like the Dodson's work. He draws one very sexy woman and one very sexy guy. Over and over and over again. But his style was just a bit too Dawson's Creek for Generation X.
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I totally wrote and sketched a scene where Sean has a sexy dream about Emma and confronts her, assuming she's playing with his head. She, in turn, laughs. Their dynamic was so ripe for sexual/ romantic interplay.
The Dodsons-- yea I agree. They do draw folks very pretty and it's gorgeous work, you can't deny. My issue with it is that everyone kinda looks the same. I wish they'd introduce more variation in body types or faces or hairstyles. The Dodsons and Greg Land are similar in that respect.
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Oh yes, Cordelia Frost's beau. I'm still fuzzy on what happened there... he was a villain, right? Used her? Can't remember and I literally just read the entire run last summer. Now, if there was a character who wasn't given a chance it was Cordelia. Great things were done with Adrienne and later Christian. Anyway... Mondo time...
I really think he's a good example of yet another great Gen-X character. He had a unique personality and pretty decent powers. He was also an atypical hero type so he fit right in. He actually kind of reminds me of Bob from Tekken. Anyway, great job on him.
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Thanks!! I've no idea how they ruined Mondo. Alls I know is that he WASN'T the cool, unshakable, laid-back Kahuna they led us to believe he'd be.
And on Cordelia, I was excited for her as well. I thought that with this new gen of mutants, Cordelia would represent the White Queen-ish sometimes villain/ sometimes helper of their class. I even kinda saw her joining at one point- and used to draw her in the Gen X uni.
I think though, when Emma became de-aged, Cordelia kinda seemed pointless. And someone like Adrienne (older, more ruthless, like Emma USED to be) made a better antagonist.
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Mondo was involved in some kind of villain plot. I think he was specifically teamed up and/or manipulated by Emplate or Black Tom Cassidy using Cordelia as a pawn. Something like that. 'Cause Cordelia came crying to Emma about it.
You got to love the Frost family though. Iconic names, classic class identity issues and a dynamic that most comic characters don't have. While Adrienne obviously got the biggest boost with her becoming the White Queen VERY briefly and getting shot. Cordelia was kind of like the can't-do-anything-right sister. Didn't she attempt to bribe her way onto the Hellfire Club and failed miserably?
I don't think Cordelia would be pointless as long as a writer actually played with that. I mean, everyone seems to forget that Emma has a family with such rich characterization. There's a lot to be played with. I mean, why hasn't anyone but Grant Morrison (with the exception of the Emma-centric solo series) dealt with that since the Gen-X days? Where is Cordelia? Is Christian still in a mental facility?
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jesus- u ate that emma frost book up, huh? LOL
Also- at some point with Mondo there was some dumb clone plot. blegh-- did not care. All I wanted was my chilled-out big Kahuna and they never gave it to me.
I totally used to draw Cords. I was really into GenX when it 1st came out- and really into the idea of next generation villains. I wanted Cords to get together her own Hellfire Club-- and I loved the Gene Nation. I also thought Neophyte could come upon a group of young Acolytes-- LOL. But I also drew Neophyte, Marrow, and Cordelia in Gen X outfits too, just in case. good times.
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To be honest, I made it only until Emma graduated to college. So I mostly caught her high school years. Unfortunately, a lot of what was established in that series has been treated as non-canon by a lot of writers.
There was a clone plot? I think I purposely forgot that. Hate clones. Too science fiction-y for my tastes.
What was Cordelia's power? Did they ever establish it? Adrienne's was psychometry. I wonder if Christian had one. I suppose it was a girl's only thing. Seeing Marrow as one of the Gen-Xers would have been interesting. It's funny how she went from a terrifying Morlock to this cute chick with pink hair and a crush on Gambit. >.<
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On Emma's book-- REALLY!? See when that came out, I took it as an opportunity to give Em a vulnerable side hitherto unseen in X-books. And also to capitalize on their new hottest female char. Those covers are some of the most beautiful comic pin-ups I've ever seen. I met the guy who did them at a con. His wife modeled for them. But I digress. Since I never read the title, I assumed it was treated like the gospel. I wonder which aspects of it are ignored in the main books...?
I thought Cordelia was just telepathic but not on Em's level. I know she was immune to Emma's power and I vaguely remember she tried to mentally influence Shinobi into letting her into Hellfire. Question-- did they ever follow up on her mis-matched eye color? It appeared in a few of her early issues and I drew it all the time, kinda loving it because I thought it was unique. But is it treated like a simple coloring mistake these days and just ignored?
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It was actually pretty fantastic. The first year or so's issues that I read, I couldn't stop reading. It was fairly addictive. There was definitely a lot of soap opera-y stuff I'm sure you'd eat right up. It starts off with Emma being this innocent girl and she ends up eventually having to become more like her sister and father (i.e. conniving, back-stabbing son's of biatches) at one point. It also deals with her close friendship to Christian. But they just don't touch any of this stuff in the comics. The latest Emma Frost origins book kind of clod-hops all over that original title.
Adrienne was immune to Emma too. I think Cordy (haha, Cordy I wonder if she ever went by that? Too much Buffy leaking in here) had some kind of mind control or empathy power if it was ever stated. Each sister had their own psychic power, that much is known. She had two different eye colours? Totally never noticed that.
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Yea in an annual and maybe in a numbered ish.
Also, why was she so dark? Do they explain that in Emma's title?
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As in dark skinned? Or dark hair? Because she was the same skin colour as Emma and Adrienne. I'm still fairly rusty on what happened in that title but like Gen-X Cordelia doesn't really have a huge role in it. What I read mostly highlighted Adrienne and their father as pseudo-villains and Christian as Em's confidant. Cordelia was there but she was pretty much a quiet character... and kind of a screw-up I think. :S I know they re-created the inheritance scene from New X-Men in it.
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Cordelia was maaad dark in Gen X-- like Mondo's complexion.
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WAS SHE?! I totally do not remember this. See, she was always very forgettable to me so I don't remember. All I remember is what she looked like when Jimenez drew her in New X-Men with the funky outfit and the rebel hair 'do.
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