Generation Next #2

Name: Generation Next #2
Brand: Marvel
Availability: InStock

Apr 1995 · Marvel · 1.95 USD; 2.65 CAD

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“Hither Comes the Sugar Man!”

★ 1st appearance — Sugar Man

About this Issue

Generation Next #2 delivers the first appearance of the Sugar Man, one of the Age of Apocalypse's most distinctive original villains — a sadistic mutant slaver with no Earth-616 counterpart who would go on to reshape mainstream Marvel continuity by secretly engineering Genosha's mutate slave society after escaping the dying AoA timeline through the M'Kraan Crystal. The issue is a structurally vital chapter of the 1995 Age of Apocalypse crossover, in which every regular X-Men title was cancelled and replaced by alternate-reality counterparts, a bold editorial gamble that Marvel had never previously attempted on such a scale. Within the Generation Next mini-series, this issue escalates the infiltration of the Portland Core's human labor camp — one of the event's most morally uncompromising settings — deepening the AoA's theme that heroism in Apocalypse's world demands brutal sacrifice. The Lobdell-Bachalo creative team uses the issue to establish Sugar Man's reign of terror over enslaved humans and mutants alike, grounding the crossover's horror in intimate, personal cruelty rather than cosmic spectacle.

In "Hither Comes the Sugar Man!", Generation Next launches a daring mission to free Illyana Rasputin from Apocalypse’s grip at the Portland Core mine. With Husk and Vincente posing as the mine’s foreman, Quietus, the team inches closer to their rescue—just as the real danger begins to stir beneath the surface. Written by Scott Lobdell and brought to life by Chris Bachalo’s dynamic art, with inks by Mark Buckingham and vibrant colors by Steve Buccellato and Electric Crayon, this issue crackles with tension and high-stakes infiltration. The cover by Bachalo and Buckingham captures the eerie, looming threat of the mine’s hidden depths.

writer Scott Lobdell · artist Chris Bachalo · inker Mark Buckingham · colorist Steve Buccellato · colorist Electric Crayon · letterer Richard Starkings · letterer Comicraft · cover Chris Bachalo, Mark Buckingham

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History

Generation Next was conceived as the Age of Apocalypse's answer to Generation X, the then-current Lobdell-Bachalo ongoing series, transplanting those same collaborators into a dystopian key mission arc under the overall editorial stewardship of X-Men group editor Bob Harras, whose brainstorming sessions with Lobdell and Fabian Nicieza formed the conceptual core of the entire AoA event. Lobdell wrote all four issues while Bachalo pencilled and co-designed the book, with inker Mark Buckingham, colorist Steve Buccellato, and letterers Richard Starkings and Comicraft rounding out a consistent production team across the run. The series ran on a monthly schedule from March through June 1995, with issue #2 carrying an April 1995 cover date, during the period when all of Marvel's mainline X-titles had been temporarily suspended and replaced by the AoA tie-in minis.

Trivia · 7 facts

First appearance of the Sugar Man (Earth-295), a mutant villain created by Scott Lobdell and Chris Bachalo; the character has no known Earth-616 counterpart and is original to the Age of Apocalypse setting.
Written by Scott Lobdell, pencilled by Chris Bachalo, inked by Mark Buckingham, colored by Steve Buccellato and Electric Crayon, lettered by Richard Starkings and Comicraft, and edited by Bob Harras.
Published April 1995 (cover date) by Marvel Comics; part of the four-issue Generation Next limited series, itself one of several concurrent AoA tie-in minis that temporarily replaced all regular X-Men titles.
Story title: 'Hither Comes the Sugar Man!' — the issue advances the team's mission to infiltrate the Portland Core slave-labor mine to rescue Illyana Rasputin, Colossus's sister, who possesses latent chrono-variant (time-manipulation) powers needed by Magneto to restore the true timeline.
Husk and Vincente kill and impersonate the mine's foreman Quietus in this issue — a stark display of the AoA's kill-or-be-killed moral register — while the rest of Generation Next holds position outside.
The issue was reprinted in Ultimate Generation Next (Marvel, 1995), a same-year squarebound collected edition, and again in X-Men: Age of Apocalypse #2 – Reign (Marvel, 2015), confirming its ongoing archival significance within the AoA canon.
The full Generation Next series — including this issue — was later collected in X-Men: The Complete Age of Apocalypse Epic trade paperbacks and in the X-Men: The Age of Apocalypse Omnibus hardcover.