Well, we didn't need Magik powers to foresee THIS! - a New Mutants miniseries

[icon_uk]

What with a TV series upcoming, the idea to re-launch the New Mutants, even only as a miniseries, seems rather an obvious one, though a welcome one too.





In New Mutants: Dead Souls, former New Mutants Karma will bring together Magik, Wolfsbane, Strong Guy, Boom Boom, and Rictor to combat a supernatural threat, but Karma may be hiding a dark secret. Each issue will focus on a different member of the new team.

Well, it'll be nice to see Wolfsbane out in the main MU for a change, though it will have to address why she's back when she had a decent retirement in PAD's X-Factor, and what the deal was with her bizarre secondary mutation when she showed up in X-Men... whichever colour it as a few months back (She now has the power to turn into some sort of wolf pack,rather than "just" be a werewolf) and also how she feels about serving on the same team as Strong Guy, who was responsible for the death of her child.

I'm REALLY hoping we're not going to see Karma go evil!

It has been hinted by writer Matthew Rosenberg that the absence of the one other member of the team with supernatural connections, Dani Moonstar, she of the Hela granted Valkyrie abilities, is possibly for a reason. (I won't even comment on the possible inclusion of the New Mutant who spent the longest time dead out of all of them as a possible team-member, but that seems less likely)

Comments

[lucean]

While I appreciate the new miniseries, this line-up just doesn't do much for me. It just feels like a weird hybrid of trying to draw in people who were fans of the New Mutants while at the same time skipping most of the characters who defined the New Mutants.

[icon_uk]

Yesh, I agree for the most part.

Sam and Bobby are busy in USAvengers, so they'd be tough to include organically, and if we're getting Xian, Rahne and possibly Dani, that's the founding five. Illyana is one of the additional four members from the period which more or less defines the team to most people (With Amara, Doug and Warlock being the others of course).

Boom-Boom certainly was on the team, but I always think of her as more of an Exterminators or X-Force member than a NM, and Strong Guy is just a bizarre choice.

[burkeonthesly]

What? Rahne turns into a wolf pack now? A wolf pack? Like, Jamie Madrox with a brindle coat?

[onsokumaru]

Don't know how to think about it.

Magik is in, so I'm interested, although I'll miss the sexy costume.Can't wait for her interactions with Wolfsbane. We've never seen them together since Illyana came back.
The Guido/Rhane thing has to be adressed, for sure. It's astonishing that she still didn't kill him.
I'm rather glad that it's not the classic line-up. Although I like Berto or Warlock better than Guido or Rictor, I don't like nostalgia pandering.

About the creative team.
No a fan of Gorham art.
Still not forgetting that Rosenberg gave Slingshot a shitty death in order to make room for his Inhuman Secret Warriors. Hope he doesn't do the same kind of thing with some X-kids.

[icon_uk]

I've found Magik's recent costume to just be a bit too ridiculous, the head-dress thingie, the soulsword looking like it came straight out of Final Fantasy (or possibly Shinkenger), and the whole leather thigh-boots, short skirt and bra were just trying too hard.

[long_silence]

Wolfsbane and Toad had secondary mutations as part of an ongoing plot line in X-Men Blue about mutants who are refugees from the Ultimate Universe.

Jimmy Hudson has a drug called Mothervine in his system that was given to fetuses in utero in order to ensure they would be mutants. Once he was on 616 Miss Sinister captured Hudson and started studying Mothervine, and learned how to give mutants a secondary mutatIon with it.

If it really bothers people that much just keep in mind that this isn't even the first time Toad's gotten a secondary mutatIon. He could control minds with the poison his tongue secretes, he could talk to actual toads like Falcon talks to birds, he had increased lung capacity for a super breath. All of those secondary mutations got ignored by later writers, if Rahne's "turn into a wolfpack" power isn't well received then you could easily say that the Mothervine effects were temporary

[beyondthefringe]

I hope so. It really didn't do her any favors to have those weird extended claws and to turn into multiple wolves. It was really quite excessive.

[long_silence]

It's better than getting impregnated by Hrimhari and getting her strength augmented enough to incubate his Asgardian spawn.

[dcbanacek]

Karma? I mean wow, considering how rarely I've seen her, I thought she was dead... or stuck in the land of forgotten characters.

And with that line up, they should call it X-Factor.

[scorntx]

So, what are the odds they'll actually address that whole thing of Strong Guy killing Rahne's son?