Generation Hope: Where it's still okay to be Blue and naked

So I've been recently catching up on several comics I've been neglected for many months now, and one of the titles I've been reading is an X-men title by the name of Generation Hope.


The story centers around this new team of mutants who are known as the 5 Lights who are led by Hope Summers living on Utopia, a haven for mutants. Now for those of you who don't follow X-Men ( I'm not sure why you don't, maybe you just don't read that many comics or you hate mutants, or worse... you're a DC fan...) some little back story before this comic line started: After M-Day the Decimation wiped out the mutant population leaving only 198 mutants, Hope Summers was born as the first mutant since then. After a huge hoopla was made to keep her alive she traveled to the future with Cable and now she's back to present time where newer mutants are showing up and it's up to Hope to save them.

The first 5 she helps are known as the 5 Lights, which brings me to the point of this post, the first girl Hope saved is a highly intelligent girl named Laurie Tromette who goes by the codename Transonic.

Yes folks, she's got blue skin and naked. It would seem that in the marvel universe as long as you've got blue skin you're either not classified as nude or you're allowed to walk around nude, however this only applies to females - you don't see nightcrawler or beast strutin' around in the buff.

Laurie possesses the powers of self propelled flight and can travel at transonic speeds. Naturally to make sense out of it I rationalized that she flies so fast that her clothes can't withstand the speeds she travels at, so there's no need for clothes at all. Alas, i still remain confuzzled because sometimes Laurie can be seen actually wearing clothes.

I continued to rationalize that when she's in the field of duty she strips down and when she's maxin' n relaxin' she puts something on, which seems to be half true. When the team suits up for a mission Laurie sports her blue birthday suit, even one of her teammates, Gabriel made the comment about it. Although she does wear clothes while off duty she also has been seen nekkid too. Which leaves me to conclude:

Mission Ready = nude mandatory
Takin it easy as a teenage mutant girl = clothing optional

To try and find out why she's nekkid I searched online only to find that there are many other marvel fans and readers who've been perturbed by this. Eventually I came across an explanation stating that Laurie is naked but is also covered up by some sort of thin exoskeleton. If so, I wish the writers/artists would have her evolve her abilities so it could maybe look like she's wearing armor or I dunno maybe give her an actual uniform to wear - silly idea, I know. 'But Green, you said earlier that clothes wouldn't be able to withstand her transonic speeds,' why yes, but it's the marvel universe! Cyclops can swing by the baxter building ask Reed Richards to do him a solid and make a uniform out of those unstable molecules so that Utopia doesn't have a teenager running around naked 24/7.

I'll end with this; one of the more recent issues Laurie gets into a lil scuffle with Hope, and is seen being hit and tossed around and the images can be a bit... disconcerting.

crotch shot for the win?

green out~