New Mutants #10… enter Sauron?
(5 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)I LOVED the original New Mutants and was really hoping to see some of Marvel’s best and brightest working on new stories with Sam Guthrie, Roberto Dacosta, Xi’an Coy Mahn, Dani Moonstar, Illyana Rasputin and Amara Aquilla. The Alex Ross cover for the first issue led me to believe we’d see their A-game… But Sauron? C’mon.
Sauron is one of those villains of yesterday that I have a hard time taking seriously (Like Despero, Killer Moth or Paste Pot Pete). So I’m not seeing his appearance in New Mutants #10 as something either necessary or as likely to generate much interest. And its really a shame.
Why do the New Mutants exist? Why are they a team? Cyclops runs the X-Men as one giant army, not separate squads. So, why do the New Mutants exist as a squad? The answer isn’t what you expect.
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So Cyclops and Emma (the writers) have a plan for Cannonball, Sunspot, Magik, Karma, Moonstar, Magma, Warlock and the newly resurrected Cypher. But with an army of X-Men at his back and call, WHY reform the New Mutants? I’ll find out if only because I am a bit intrigued by the subplot regarding Illyana’s knowledge from the future. I’d also like to see Rhane back with her old buddies as Wolfsbane. She’ll need her friends now and X-Force is no place for a pregnant lady.
Art is still just borderline adequate. It is a shame that Marvel isn’t trying their hardest to turn this into a top shelf title. The characters MORE than have the potential.
via CBR
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02/07/2010 at 11:21 pm
Didn’t Sauron die in an issue of New Avengers?
02/08/2010 at 12:51 am
he should be dead
02/08/2010 at 1:50 am
EXPLANATION via Sauron’s wiki page…
Sauron held the new team of Avengers hostage when they came to the Savage Land; his colleagues had recently hired Electro to break him out of the supervillain prison he’d been sent to, and the New Avengers had gone to the Savage Land to confront him about the forty-one other escapees. The team freed itself thanks to Iron Man’s voice-activated armor, and were about to interrogate him, when he was shot through the head by the second Black Widow. Fortunately for Sauron, he had absorbed Wolverine’s regenerative healing factor and recovered from his injury, just in time to be soundly defeated by the New Avengers. He was taken back into custody, but not before returning the favor to Black Widow by burning her with his fiery breath. Sauron was placed in S.H.I.E.L.D. custody and Maria Hill plans to return him to Weapon X.
In the Secret Invasion storyline, Sauron allied with Ka-Zar, Shanna the She-Devil, Zabu, and the natives when the Skrulls were invading the Savage Land.
Sauron was among the villains analyzed by Quasimodo for Norman Osborn.
02/09/2010 at 5:42 pm
I hope the stories get better. I miss the new mutants from back in the day.