A review by depreydeprey
New Mutants Epic Collection Vol. 1: Renewal by Chris Claremont

4.0

The New Mutants is one of Chris Claremont's best contributions to comics as literature and an art form as well as seamlessly expanding the diversity of the Marvel Universe in a completely organic way. The Marvel Graphic Novel that serves as the first appearance of most of the original new mutants has a gravity to the art and text nearly on the level of Claremont's masterwork God Loves Man Kills and includes the type of team building that usually takes half a dozen issues. Claremont also deserves credit for writing five of the most believable teenagers in the Marvel Universe and giving them real life problems above and beyond the Hellfire Club. My only complaint is that by concluding this collection with the Magik miniseries the collection gets away from the strength and cohesion of the title's ongoing storytelling. The story of Illyana Rasputan is an interesting footnote but in the context of this collection is really a distraction from the first twelve issues of the New Mutants I could have done without.