Whats this I hear about a book called Generation X: Mutant 911?
Don’t worry, that was just an unused alternate title for Generation X: Genogoths. This is best addressed by the author, J. Steven York. “As if I wasn’t having enough trouble with the book, just before the Marvel injunction I get a call from the packager. This was just after the Columbine school shooting, and the media briefly latched onto the “goth” aspects of the shooters. The packager wanted a new title, and fast. I gave them a short list of alternates that I could live with. They dumped them all for ” Mutant 9-1-1″ which I absolutely HATED. I guess the idea was that it was a mutant rescue call, and therfore “9-1-1” I started referring to it as “Mutant Nine-eleven,” or even “Mutant Nine-eleven, the Plastic Eaters” a joke that about three people in the world will probably get. It got solicited to the bookstores under that title just before Marvel dropped the boom. As it turned out, the whole “goth” thing faded out in about three days and the Marvel injunction delayed things for a soli
