A Primer for 2019’s New Mutants by Jonathan Hickman (#1-2, 5 & 7)
One of the best things about the current New Mutants
Unfortunately this fourth New Mutants series was hampered early on by the odd sequencing of its first two story arcs, one by Hickman, starring the original New Mutants, the other by Ed Brisson with art by Flaviano, spotlighting a motley crew led by the much later New Mutants addition Boom-Boom (better known from her X-Force days) and Armor from Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men.
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, following fighty former basketball player Nash “The Knife” Gliven, Jr. locked in a court-based duel to the death with Dracula is a raunchy, bombastic riff on that. 
with co-writer Ryan Estrada. We talk about the production of Banned Book Club, the increase in American-awareness of Korean comics, and Ryan’s comics career.