New Mutants #41

[stolisomancer]

After the team almost all got killed horribly in the last arc, New Mutants #41 is a downtime issue. Blink shows up, sees everyone's acting glum, and teleports everyone to Madripoor to party down at their local, somewhat-later-than-everyone-else celebration of the Chinese New Year.

This, for some reason, involves David Lopez deciding to go a little exaggerated and cartoony from time to time. I will warn you now that Roberto has gone out for the evening and decided, "You know what? I'm going to do my best Donkey Kong impression. Ladies love that!"

Then Doug facepalms. It's great.








(I'm sure I'm supposed to know who that girl with Warlock is. She says her name is Trois and she's from High Town. Then again, maybe she's new.)

Comments

[cainofdreaming]

Who turned Doug into Mark Hamill and then stretched his skull?

I don't recognize the girl either, but if she's not a triplet then that's a terrible waste of a pun.

[stolisomancer]

Lopez, since he started drawing the book, has decided Doug is skinny to the point of being gaunt.

I suppose it helps to differentiate him from Nate and Roberto, who're both more typically protagonist-y in their build, but it is a sharp departure from how, say, Leandro Fernandez drew him.

[halloweenjack]

I kind of like it; Doug almost looks like a blond, young Richard E. Grant in some of these panels.

[icon_uk]

Not a fan of the gaunt look for Dougie-boy myself

[suzene]

Motto. Just because he's back from the dead doesn't mean he has to look like a zombie.

[quatoria]

Agreed. I can't stand it.

[jcbaggee]

I feel it's a step in the right direction from his, dare I say, beefcake look he had in his UXM appearances, but it's too far in the direction.

I like him kind of....not scrawny, but lithe feels right.

[icon_uk]

Just imagine him the way Alan Davis would draw him! :)

[pallas_athena]

Can we just imagine *everyone* like that?