23 – Meet the New Mutants

Art by David Wynne.

In which Rachel and Miles return triumphant, the X-Men get a second ongoing series, we hit peak Moira MacTaggert, R-A-H-N-E is definitely pronounced “rain,” Sam Guthrie is the nicest henchman, Claremont is hit-and-miss on cultural diversity, and Bobby da Costa is the teenageriest teenager of them all.

X-Plained:

• Nova Roma
• The New Mutants and The New Mutants
• Marvel Graphic Novels
• Greenberg the Vampire
• call-backs
• Karma
• Wolfsbane
• Sunspot
• Cannonball
• Mirage
• Whitewashing in superhero comics
• The mercurial Guthrie family
• Xi’an the Obscure
• The Dr. Claw Effect (and why Dr. Doom and Arcade are exceptions)
• Donald Pierce
• Eras of New Mutants
• Lila Cheney
• The Hellions

Next Week: The X-Men do Barbarella

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