REVIEW: New Mutants #1 is a space romp brimming with cosmic adventure and one-liners

By Zack Quaintance — In some ways, New Mutants #1 might be the most surprising debut issue within the Dawn of X, which is the six-comic line-wide X-Men relaunch that’s now one book away from complete. Sure, some of the other comics have bigger plot twists (see X-Force) or wilder concepts (see Excalibur), but New Mutants is a rarer thing — it’s a comic that’s being co-written by Jonathan Hickman, that deals more in individual moments than it does high-concept sci-fi ideas.

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Comic of the Week: The New Mutants - War Children #1, two legendary talents bring their A games

By d. emerson eddy — Marvel's celebration of its 80th anniversary has been a bit strange. There have been a number of resurrected titles as one shot anthologies along a theme, other specials featuring reunited creative teams from luminary runs, the Avengers: No Road Home arc, etc. Also, both the Invaders and Marvel Comics Presents series could be seen as a celebration of history, and then there was the chronicling of Marvel's history outright in The History of the Marvel Universe, and, of course, the Marvel Comics #1000 special. It's all added up to a very...eclectic year with some interesting material. Without it, however, we never would have seen a reunion of two creators who crafted one of the publisher’s best remembered and most cherished stories in the New Mutant's Demon Bear Saga — Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz.

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