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iamrman ([personal profile] iamrman) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-02-25 01:00 pm

New Mutants #5

Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils: Sal Buscema

Finishes: Bob McLeod


The New Mutants attend the county fair, only to get embroiled in some shenanigans with Team America and Viper.


[personal profile] scorntx 2025-02-25 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, this was an odd one.
Not quite as odd as, say, a small town being plagued by aliens, or a race of lizards turned sentient by nuclear testing or an entire city of eerily Caucasian Romans hidden in the middle of South America, but still odd.

Oh, look, Viper. In a Claremont story.
(Think this was fresh off her fall out of the balloon over in Captain America.)

Not a great day for Xuan. First her mighty powers fail to work, then she gets smacked up the head with a sword.
Just the start of a long but not remotely slow slide in humiliation, misery and just being narratively superfluous.