NYX is a book about younger mutants – the ones most analogous to Zoomers – finding community as a post-Krakoan diaspora.
It’s also an odd burst of 2000s nostalgia, as it largely centers on characters who were created during that decade, an era when Marvel introduced dozens of new mutants (lowercase N, lowercase M) in an attempt to turn the Xavier School into superpowered Hogwarts. Many of those characters would soon die in a bus explosion, because school shootings were every bit as de rigueur as wizards.
But NYX doesn’t take its name from New X-Men: Academy X or the titles that immediately preceded or followed it. It takes its name from NYX, a pair of miniseries about homeless and runaway mutant teens in New York, more in the vein of Catherine Hardwicke’s Thirteen than Jo Rowling’s pop pablum (screw her). NYX is most famous for being the series that brought Laura Kinney into comics, but it had some other characters, too.
Why do I bring this up? OH, NO REASON.
Check out our exclusive preview of NYX #6, out next week, definitely don’t look up the variant covers for this issue online, and keep scrolling for the basic deets.
And for our coverage of NYX #5, click here.
(W) Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly (A) Michael Shelfer (CA) Sara Pichelli
PREPARE TO BE DAZZLED…TO DEATH!
Congratulations, Kamala Khan – You Got Tickets to Dazzler! ADVISORY: This historic, one-night-only performance will be recorded for theatrical distribution! By entering this concert, you and your little mutant friends consent to being recorded, manipulated and otherwise used by the extradimensional superbeing known as MOJO. Lasers, smoke, flashing lights and other stagecraft will be used against you. Have fun at Dazzler! We hope you survive the experience!
Rated T+
In Shops: Dec 04, 2024
$3.99
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Dan Grote is the editor-in-chief of ComicsXF, having won the site by ritual combat. By day, he’s a newspaper editor, and by night, he’s … also an editor. He co-hosts The ComicsXF Interview Podcast with Matt Lazorwitz. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, two kids and two miniature dachshunds, and his third, fictional son, Peter Winston Wisdom.
