War Journal Entry number 854 - growing up New.

[zodarzone]

I've spoken before about how much I like the New Mutants. I didn't actually start collecting the series until right after the original one ended (issue 100), but they are the X-Men nearest to my heart. Sure, I got the series out of order, but I was the right age and I grew up with them, and vice versa.

See, the New Mutants, owing to the fact that

Comments

[esper3k]

Glad to hear New Mutants is still good - that's one of the books I really need to catch up on!

[zodarzone]

Yep, I've been digging it a lot and highly recommend it. It can be imposing because they've had quite a few crossovers already. You can probably skip Second Coming if you don't care about those big X-Men crossovers, and Age of X was really weak. But Necrosha has some good elements for a New Mutants fan, including the return of Doug Ramsey which itself makes it a must read. I still tear up thinking about when Doug and Warlock finally met again. Good stuff.

[esper3k]

Yeah, in the current iteration of New Mutants, I'm caught up through Necrosha and the stuff with Hope & Cable coming back. I think the last thing I remember was in the middle of a story arc where there were these grown up military demon kids trying to capture Pixie or Magick?