Years
ago a really promising series started. NYX was written by Joe Quesada
and drawn by Joshua Middleton. Eventually Quesada’s duties as Editor
in Chief wound up complicating the release schedule and Middleton
left Marvel and another artist (the talented but stylistically
different Robert Terenashi) was brought in to finish what had
suddenly become a 7 issue mini-series. Years passed, I almost forgot
about it. But opening the pages of Marjorie Liu’s take on NYX with No
Way Home #1 immediately brought me back into the world of teenage
runaway Kiden Nixon. A mutant on the streets of New York City’s
Mutant District. Time has clearly passed and the connections to the
previous series are pretty strong with almost all of the original
characters returning for the new mini, but what has changed is that
the story seems to be more about the characters and less about
powers. To be honest I think that the first NYX mini-series was the
last good thing that Quesada worked on in any capacity as a creative
voice but it’s clear that what he created has a lasting quality.
First time comic writer and New York Times Bestseller Marjorie Liu
has a talent for these voices and a talent for this world that makes
it seem like you are reading something familiar, in a very good way,
despite it’s newness. Kalman Andrasofszky is a talent who works far
too infrequently, and has become much more well known as a cover
artist and artist who often needs help finishing interiors, and his
work here in these pages show a promise that is in many ways
incomparable to the rest of the artistic field with one exception …
original series artist Joshua Middleton. So, check this series out
and if nothing else pay attention to the opinions expressed online
and find the trade when it hits the shelves early next year.