NEW MUTANTS #16

Review by: akamuu

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WRITER: Zeb Wells
PENCILS: LEONARD KIRK & DAVE WILKINS
INKS: LEONARD KIRK
COLORED BY: BRIAN REBER
LETTERED BY: NEUROTIC CARTOONIST, INC
COVER BY: DAVE WILKINS

Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99

The Marvel Universe sorcery aspects are instant turn-offs for me.  It’s why I dropped the New New Avengers, and why I tuned out near the end of Kyle & Yost’s New X-Men.  I though the Hellbound side story arc of Second Coming was atrocious.  So when I saw that this issue was going to be a follow up to that, I let out a heavy sigh, and opened up the comic.

This issue was exactly what I expected.  Demons.  A rogue government agency.  Belasco related demons.  Odd mixes of science and magic.

The only thing that interested me was that Zeb Wells gave a very specific time reference in this issue.  I don’t remember the last time an X-Writer was ballsy enough to say directly “It has been x amount of months/years since this specific event.”  But Wells says very clearly in this issue that Second Coming takes place four years after Inferno.  I find that fascinating.  Everything else was shrugworthy to me.

But, I want to reiterate, it was shrugworthy because I don’t care about Purgatory, and this particular segment of the Marvel Universe.  Wells writing is good enough that I kept reading about a subject I don’t care about, but not so good that I found myself enjoying the issue.

Leonard Kirk’s art was a cross between good-day Steve Dillon and every day Kieth Burns.  And it continues the trend of New Mutants being the best drawn of the X-books this year.

Story: 3 - Good
Art: 4 - Very Good

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