New Mutants #6

[iamrman]

Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils: Sal Buscema

Finishes: Armando Gil and John Tartaglione

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A group of untrained kids go up against a pair of dangerous super-villains. What could possibly go wrong?

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Our Pal Sal's style really shows through when somebody other than Bob McLeod does the inking.

Viper has Team America going after some MacGuffin while the New Mutants try to rescue Dani. This book is supposed to be about the New Mutants, so I am going to concentrate on them. Remember when the New Mutants title was actually about the New Mutants? Not whatever the Hell that last series was about.

Lilandra's looking particularly triangular in this issue.

Comments

[scorntx]

Shadow King.
Ugh.

As far as horribly cruel things Claremont did to characters go, this was right up there.


Interesting book-end how here, early on in their run, the New Mutants have a relatively hard time with Ken and Viper, and at the end of it, the Hellions manage to beat them off-screen.


(Maybe triangle hair is the Shi'ar version of being extra fluffy after a shower...)

[onsokumaru]

Imagine: Clint as Goliath with a bow and a Lilandra arrow.

[icon_uk]

Or she's just pleased to see Charles... Look, I have no idea how the Shi'Ar show such things, but a mating dance with puffed up feather/hair might be their version of "come hither"

[cainofdreaming]

Bird related Marvel things I don't want to know:
1) How Shi'ar feed their babies.
2) And now this.

[icon_uk]

1) They have breasts, one would assume it's much like humans, but I get your point.

2) You're welcome! :)

[cainofdreaming]

Don't google birds with breasts, that's what I always say. Well, I said it now. Mostly to myself, but it's still a good advice I think.

[onsokumaru]

Going from McLeod to Sal Buscema hurts my eyes. I know the guy is a legend, but I never liked his art.

It's crazy, the number of issues between the Shadow King hint here and his actual appearance in the series.