Dingdang, this arc of New Mutants has been a corker. Vita Ayala and Rod Reis have performed a deep examination of who Illyana Rasputina and Madelyne Pryor are in the modern age, and how Limbo is a place one of them needs to move beyond while the other can repurpose it to gain agency.
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But all good things must come to an end. The team needs to clear the decks so the New Mutants can celebrate 40 years of being perpetually somewhere between 14 and 24, and Madelyne is needed in an upcoming (checks notes) Spider-Man event called (checks notes again) “Dark Web.” Ah, well, we trust Zeb Wells to spin a good yarn.
Get it? Spin? Web? Spider-Man?
I’ll show myself out. In the meantime, check out this preview of New Mutants #28, out next week, with the standard solicit copy at the bottom.
AN END OF AN ERA… IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE!
The time has come for Magik to conquer her demons. Will Illyana be able to contend with manifestations of her trauma and save her friends in the process? And if Madelyne does gain the throne … can the Goblin Queen contain the fiery madness of Limbo? Or will her old inclinations toward chaos resurface, bringing Krakoa and the rest of world to their knees?
Writer: Vita Ayala
Artists: Rod Reis and Jan Duursema
Colorist: Ruth Redmond
Cover: Leinil Francis Yu
Rated T
$3.99
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