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New Mutants Reunited?

December 17, 2008 by

When I was a kid, New Mutants was my one of favoriet books. From the Larry Boyd issue (still one of my all-time favorites), through the Mutant Massacre, to the time-travelling adventure where Sunspot was revealed to have betrayed everybody and beyond to the Fall of the Mutants and the death of Cypher, the book just appealed to me in a way that the X-Men didn’t.

Part of it was probably that most of the characters were around my age, but it was also that they didn’t spend every issue in uniform fighting. They went out. They had a rivalry with Emma Frost’s students. They screwed up – but they learned, and they evolved.

That’s why when I saw this ad (missed it last week!), I got a little smile on my face. I mean, from where I’m standing, I’d say that certainly looks like Magma, Cannonball, Sunspot, Magik, Wolfsbane and Dani…

Is there a new New Mutants book in the works? Or would that just be Mutants now?

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5 Responses to New Mutants Reunited?

  1. ABoyNamedArt on December 17, 2008 at 4:00 pm

    I dunno, reuniting the team risks putting it in the same predicament as the non-teen Titans. Without a clearly defined purpose in the X-scheme, it could just flounder about, y’know?

  2. Steve V on December 18, 2008 at 12:23 pm

    I think that would be great because the new Young X-Men just isn’t doing it for me.

  3. The General on December 20, 2008 at 12:22 pm

    As much as the idea excites me, I have to agree with Art that it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense in the long term. Maybe it will be another mini-series… though that wouldn’t be really fulfilling.

    With the exception of Wolfsbane (in X-Force_, the other New Mutants are all pretty much accounted for with New X-Men right (and Cannonball in the regular X-Men)?

  4. Rich on December 22, 2008 at 6:23 pm

    Steve – I'm kind of enjoying Young X-Men, but I'm not a huge fan of the art.

    Arty & General – I agree that I think the difficulty would be distinguishing the team from the others, and giving it a raison d'etre. Not that it couldn't be done, just that it'd be difficult.

  5. Nick Marino on December 31, 2008 at 12:06 pm

    following in the footsteps of how Marvel likes to do things nowadays, wouldn’t the team have to be called “New New Mutants”?

    or maybe they’ll go with the latest naming craze and call them the “Dark New Mutants”