By: Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Leandro Fernandez (art), Andres Mossa (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Sebastian Girner (editor) & Nick Lowe (senior editor)
The Story: The New Mutants continue their first mission now that they’re on official mop-up duty for the X-Men: The search for Nate Grey.
What’s Good: As with X-Men Legacy this week, it is great that this X-comics has a unique cast of characters. We have plenty of opportunities to see the exploits of the main mutants and some of those characters like Wolverine are so larger-than-life than they suck the air out of the room; it’s hard for a character like Magma to shine or develop much when Emma Frost is in the room. I also really love that Abnett & Lanning have given these junior mutants a coherent mission: clean up the loose ends that the X-Men leave behind. The mission the New Mutants are tasked with here is: Find Nate Grey. And in finding Nate Grey, they’ll run across a leftover from Age of Apocalypse. Funny how that story line keeps swirling around this summer, huh?
So, the basic set-up for the mission and series are solid.
The art is a positive from a storytelling standpoint. There’s never much doubt about what is going on and the issue is nicely colored.
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