New Mutants #1
Is this volume 3 or volume 4? I forget. Anyway, they’re back! Yes, it is true – Marvel seems to be at an all-time high for # of x-books again. The bloat is so bad I’m actually NOT buying as many as I am buying… I think. Somewhere in there.
Anyway, so, was this any good?
Sort of. The art was passable, and the general plot skeleton could be fine BUT. But. What the hell is up with Sunspot’s characterization? Is he 15 again? Has he not been running a powerful corporation and sitting on the board of the Hellfire Club for a couple years? Now he’s excited by stupid cars and stupid jets that I’m sure he’s seen/driven better than before.
His whole character is ringing horribly wrong.
Magic has this weird gothy-self-inflicted drama thing going on too that doesn’t seem to mesh with her most recent appearance. Not to mention she’s trying to hard to be Layla Miller in this issue.
Magma is ok so far, but that’s really only because her character has always been to be a blank slate.
Cannonball was the best of the bunch, and that’s not saying much at all. His outburst against the younger students in the beginning was embarassing.
I get that the writer is trying to bring back some old school feel or something (especially the villain – why??) – but that doesn’t mean everyone has to act like they’re 15 again – they should be early/mid 20s at least by now.
I really wanted to like this. It’s a better start than Young X-Men, but it’s still looking pretty dismal so far. I didn’t really realize how bad it was until I just spelled it out here and forced myself to accept that it’s really sub-par. SigH!
Not content to destroy plot lines and characterizations on the big screen (or perhaps paving the way for it to become acceptable), they churned out a bunch in comic book form so no one can cry about movies not being “inaccurate” and “trite”?
Well, this is the one comic Wolverine is not in, so luckily there’s not much of a link there.
The plot itself is serviceable – it’s the characterization here that’s odd.
*picking nose*