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REVIEW: New Mutants #11: Sweet Dreams Are Made of This
The New Mutants are no strangers to fear. But in the fictional, mutant-hating nation of Karnelia, the New Mutants find themselves in dire straits, with most of the team lost to the psychic nightmare projected by a young mutant, a girl named Cosmar. New Mutants #11 brings that story to a close, while fluidly laying…
ComicCon@Home: Disney’s New Mutants Panel Sent Us to Limbo
In the face of the global pandemic, Comic-Con International has put together what seems to be a near-overwhelming selection of panels and programming that anyone with an Internet connection can enjoy. Alas, the reality of the virtual con has been a strange, sometimes surreal selection of what feels like Zoom work meetings, with some not…
New Mutants #10: Welcome to the Nightmare Zone
It’s been a long few months since New Mutants #9, but as the comics industry is waking back up after a forced slumber, the New Mutants find themselves dragged down into a waking nightmare. In an issue rich with lurid visuals, Ed Brisson, Flaviano, Carlos Lopez, and Travis Lanham bring the New Mutants back to…
The Magik of New Mutants’ Illyana Rasputin
When an image of a horned demonic girl in armor crossed my Twitter timeline in 2018, I felt drawn to her. Illyana Rasputin looks like an untamed demon and a battle hardened human. In the recent trailer for the New Mutants film, I feel like we see a glimpse of both demon and human in…
New Mutants #6: Boom, Bang, Boom
With New Mutants #6, the Dawn of X returns to Nebraska, where the young X-Men are in dire straits. The arrival of Boom Boom provides necessary relief, but even that isn’t enough to get Armor’s team home free. New Mutants comes back to Earth with this new issue from Brisson, Flaviano, Lopez, Lanham, and Muller,…
New Mutants #5: Space, The Final Frontier
In the fifth issue of Jonathan Hickman and Rod Reis’s New Mutants, the team’s space mission encounters real space danger, as the New Mutants go head-to-head with the Shi’ar Death Commandos. Dawn of X’s space saga hurtles ahead and the New Mutants entangle themselves in more interstellar political turmoil than anyone expected from a simple…
Last Week’s Episode: God’s In Good Hands
We’re back! And I say ‘we’ because starting this month this column will be rotating between a few different writers, so you’ll get to sample some new and exciting perspectives into comic book shows, movies, and more.
New Mutants #4: Ugh, Nebraska
In New Mutants #4, the young X-Men assembled by Armor in the previous issue are in trouble in Pilger, Nebraska. In the second issue of this storyline in the Dawn of X title, the young New Mutants face down high stakes with lives on the line, in a straightforward conflict with the villains of this…
New Mutants #3: Newer than New Mutants
Writer Ed Brisson takes the wheel from Jonathan Hickman in New Mutants #3, kicking off the first earthbound arc of the book with Flaviano, Carlos Lopez, Travis Lanham, and Tom Muller. While Sunspot and the original New Mutants stumble into intergalactic political intrigue off-world, Armor assembles a Krakoan team drawing from multiple generations of newer…
Adoption Papers for Rahne Sinclair
New Mutants #1, in addition to being a great issue in its own right, had a very important highlight: like other mutants, Rahne Sinclair is alive again. That brings us to an important point of discussion regarding her: She’s ours now. By ‘ours’, of course, I mean that she belongs to trans people. You may…
Don’t Call Them X-Babies Anymore: New Mutants: War Children #1
New Mutants: War Children #1 Chris Claremont (writer), Clayton Cowles (letterer), Bill Sienkiewicz (artist), Chris Sotomayor (colorist) Marvel Comics September 25, 2019 In the 1980s, Bill Sienkiewicz, artist on The New Mutants, Moon Knight, Elektra: Assassin, and other titles, was putting art on spinner racks that looked like nothing Marvel had ever sold before. Stylistically,…