“Kenji finally makes a stand against Hope, but he won’t be doing it alone,” Asmus teases the events in the final two chapter of the series beginning with issue #16.
“On top of that, I tried to confront and forward as much as I could—the love triangle between Martha, Kenji and Laurie; Hope’s decisions to control her team; Hope’s ultimate decision about Sebastian Shaw; Gabriel and Pixie’s romantic turmoil and more!”
“All the characters on Utopia that the team has been interacting with are pulled into the last two issues and I tried to create a claustrophobic, paranoid horror story for issue #16 that boils over into an all-out wrap for the series. It’s certainly not timid.”
The big question is which kids will survive the showdown and be thrown into the AVX conflict.
“I know where things are headed and let me tell you, Hope is going to be front and center,” the writer says. “People are going to be very surprised by what happens.”
Asmus has a message for the devoted readers of Generation Hope.
“I also can’t say enough about the fans of the book. This was my first real experience with a truly engaged pack of dedicated readers. I was nervous about incurring their wrath if I wrecked the book. But the fans were incredibly game and vocally excited for so much of what we’ve been doing—and I can’t fully express how happy that’s made me. I hope they’ve fallen in love with at least one of these new characters in the Marvel Universe, and [that] I’ve reminded them how great and terrible it is to be a teenager again.”
I was lucky to meet James on his first con – Emerald City Comicon. You should read his stories in the X-Men: Manifest Destiny collection. He has a Nightcrawler story that will make you sigh.
Takeshi Miyazawa will join Asmus as artist on the final arc of the series.
For his entire interview click here.