The cover to this issue is such a great design with the layout and colours working to maximum effect and this issue is so entertaining and yet, in a way, totally irrelevant for the most part because it is not about key issues, introducing anything new, or even a new super baddie!
Anyway, after the past two years' worth of stories in both New Mutants and X-Men, we see that the team is finally back home on planet Earth in the right time period and beginning to accept Magneto as their new Headmaster. As such, in Magneto's own way, he thought he should reward the young people with a good time to let their hair down. So what does he do? He asks them to join the Hellfire Club gala night
Naturally some of the kids are eager to go and have a good time while others like self-righteous Rahne aka Wolfsbane (the obligatory claws character of this group so to speak) pretends like everyone there is super evil or whatever ... grow up, girl!
And it is a nice night in general as we see the kids finally meeting up again with the Hellions ... Emma Frost's then students kind of like the New Mutants opposite numbers ... some of the reunion are more joyous than others ... such as the delight Wolfsbane finally have when she ran into Catseye once more and both girls shapeshift for a wee bit of fun ...
On the flipside, Miss High and Mighty Cheyenne, Dani Moonstar exchanged harsh words with her American Indian counterpart, Warpath only to discover some mutual grounds and exploring ...
So you get the idea that all is fun and fun ... however as this is a comic, they just need to give us something as an incentive to return next month and this Claremont ably provides us with 2 items. The first is something that has since been mined until today for stories and that is Douglas Ramsay aka Cypher having nightmares that he is being infected by the techno organic virus of his friend 'Locke as they have merged a few times before in times of war and combat
And as for the second, it involves Cypher having a good time at the tables playing along with Roulette (yes her code name) before realizing that she is probably using her good luck bad luck powers on him to help him win and in a fit of drunkenness he did something unpleasant ... so naturally all the teams come rushing in ... and to settle matters as young people are wont to do before coming to blows, they agree on a competition ... a scavenger hunt of sorts that is to be continued in the next issue!
See what we mean by the hook?
Ratings: 6/10
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