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To say nothing of Mark Ferguson and how many royalties he must've missed out on. I can't imagine having all that gear on just to be told they aren't using your scenes.

Because the description is a classic, DnD, punch everything style monk. But the art and the limits of ingame hand-to-hand combat appears to be some medieval friar.

I wonder who was confused, the programmers or the art team?

I really did want to fistfight some Daedra but alas!

Funny how times change

The comparisons to Nazis just reinforces that the average person on reddit has no idea what conservative actually means. They think the entire Republican Party is based around just being an awful human being for no discernable reason and that everyone throughout history whose ever supported such an establishment is simply evil.

That very last comment reveals a lot to me. This older black southern woman (assuming she exists) is saying the very reasonable take that people didn't use to be so insane and that our society used to have certain standards. For the record I sincerely doubt this person ever said she was cool with segregation. This is framed as pining for an era that never existed. The liberal cannot concieve that there used to be a time where things weren't awful because the unfortunate implication is that their party had something to do with that no longer being the case.

Ah New Mutants, what a wonderful time. It really is amazing how much X-Men lore can be tied back to what was essentially their first spin off book. You got Magik, Cable, Deadpool, Domino, Emma Frost, and the Hellions who can all trace major character moments right back here. They even fight The Beyonder once!

I started reading this book because I wanted to know more about Danielle Moonstar (who is my favorite) and, well I was pretty satisfied since she's more or less the main character for huge swathes of the publication. I don't usually read books from the early 80s but it was a hard adjustment period. Panels don't have backgrounds and there are walls of text, but you get used to it. My favorite thing about reading NM is how the team was often in over it's head with these insane enemies and situations, but they always find a way to win in the end.

Issues 1 - 25 were a golden age for the team. Tons of wacky adventures in strange places, like Nova Roma, deep space, the inside of Dani's head. This is where the iconic Demon Bear story is located which I liked but had some trouble reading because the art got so abstract. After that we had Legion, and met Warlock and Doug. The art was pretty consistent for the most part, but I couldn't help but notice that the "kids" were often drawn to look like they were in their late 20s until the second half. Except Rahne anyway, she was always pretty mousy. After this point, Magneto takes over the school and, well, he's no Charles Xavier.

Up to Issue 60 is still in the Claremont era, and you can tell because there's a lot of random britishisms in there, and it ended off with a bombastic final battle until Warlock's father The Magus. If you wanted to stop reading there, you'd be very satisifed. But I ventured on.

The Simonson era gets a lot of shit for not being as good, and I do see why people say that but it started off alright. I liked how she writes the muties as actual teenagers, full of hormones and bad decision making skills. That was a good way to ground them after they had defeated a cosmic entitiy a few issues earlier. Although, I felt bad for the kids with how they were constantly getting grilled by Mags and how back to back their adventures were. At one point I think they had gotten caught in 3 major status quo altering storylines within the same week. Around Inferno, the other big problem starts to rear it's ugly head: The cast is being whittled down like crazy. First we lost Shan, then Amara, Doug, Magick, Dani, and finally Warlock, Rahne, and Robert. Even with the bump they got from Boom-Boom, Rictor, Skids, and that other guy, it was like issue after issue. Even the characters in the story were getting annoyed at how many teammates had quit or been otherwise removed. Sam is the last man standing, to the degree that the last annual's cover is nothing but the new X-force characters.

The Hellions, Magneto, and Emma Frost also disappear towards the end despite them being such pivotal recurring characters. Off having their own adventures in other books I'm sure.

The last 10 issues are a total mess. New Mutants fully becomes The Cable Show and I think Simonson is off the book entirely by that point. #100 is basically a trailer for X-Force and I don't think you're missing anything by not reading the followup. Unless you really like Cable anyway.

Did I enjoy myself though? Absolutely. I so rarely read such long comic runs, and this took me a couple months. It was my first forray into one of the longer X-books because Uncanny and X-Factor are both several times longer than this. One thing I thought was interesting is how the closer to modern day NMs got, the more storylines were being resolved or tied into other books. Whereas before you could read NMs by itself and not miss a beat.

Now I have to go and see what happened to Amara since that plot just kinda stopped.

Shang Tsung's island is just a resort with extra steps

The long cutscene intro, the pyrokinesis, the soundtrack. All that's missing are Chris and Wesker being shirtless and all three of them being a hundred feet off the ground.