It’s not that I’m not a New Mutants fan - I loved the original series. I’m crazy about the characters, and I’m glad to see the title back on the stands.
But the characters have been very active, and experienced a lot of change and growth in the THIRTY YEARS since this image introduced us to Xavier’s first younger generation of students.
Not that you’d know it from the newly reborn series - everyone’s right back where they were in 1982, it’s Brand New Day for the whole team. The only major differences between this series and the original appear to be Twitter references in place of Madonna jokes, and higher quality paper. Oh, and a significantly higher cover price.
It’s a shame that the New Mutants - a title that once stood as a shining example of boldness and originality in comics - is currently displaying stagnation and a fear of new ideas in its new incarnation.
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