A stellar chapter in an excellent cosmic superhero tale. Read Full Review

Terrific work and highly recommended! Read Full Review

New Mutants remains the most fun Dawn Of X book. Read Full Review

New Mutants has been an interesting experiment so far in how you can tell multiple stories around a theme of characters in a single book, and "Endangered Birds" is a good example of how good it can be when itworks. Read Full Review

Another fun issue that continues to spread the love across the team. I'd argue this is the strongest team book amongst the Dawn of X line and it's a colorful adventure you should not miss. Read Full Review

Muller's contributions to the data pages are always refreshing, bringing a level of design work not seen in any other book from Marvel. Lanham pulls it all together on lettering, mastering the flow of the dialogue and executing beats excellently. Everyone comes together to form such an appealing package. It represents some of the very best comics Marvel is putting out. Read Full Review

It's back to space with New Mutants #5, and that is where the fun begins again. It has been bold jumping between two stories, but at the very least it is good to know that Hickman isn't trying to make it too sporadic or frustrating having to wait x amount of time to know what happens next. Read Full Review

Out of this world fun romp with the kids as they go toe to toe with some heavy hitters. Read Full Review

Jonathan Hickman's writing on New Mutants is him in full goofball mode, more in line with that issue of Future Foundation where Peter Parker and Johnny Storm (and Annihilus) were roommates than the overall seriousness of his Avengers work and a step further than the glimpses of lightness found in the flagship X-Men series. Read Full Review

Even though this New Mutants storyline has forgone Dawn of X, this is still a charming and fun issue that makes great use of its characters and story. Read Full Review

"New Mutants" #5 returns us back to the Hickman/Reis space adventure which is starting to wear out its welcome with being more of the same from the first few issues. Read Full Review

This book is enjoyable. I wont lie and say the narrator made it unreadable, he didnt. I was smiling and chuckling for most of the books. The artwork is beautiful, it is, its retro-futuristic with just enough rejected Star Wars concept art to keep it interesting and together with the overall energy of the cast and the dialogue it works, even if the narrator and the cheap cliff-hanger did grate the nerves a little. Read Full Review

I love this book when Hickman writes it. The characters are all so entertaining.

THE GOOD:

-This issue was so much fun. I loved it.

-Rod Reis's art is always great.

-Honestly, I think I like Hickman's writing here better than X-Men. Maybe it's just that I wish he'd write this series full-time, and drop the vastly inferior Ed Brisson.

-That recap was great. It felt like it was almost directly addressing my complaint with issue 2, and started out almost Deadpool-like with its meta-ness. Plus it was really funny.

-This issue had an interesting storyline.

-Man, those Shi'ar Death Commandos are neat.

-Sunspot is such a great character.

-Mondo and Chamber were great together.

-Oh man, that scene with Magik was just fantastic.

-Karma... is kinda awesome.

THE BAD:

-Nah, I got nothing. This issue is pretty much what comics made for. more

So many great things in this issue, Bobby's narration, Illyana's "f**k or fight" line, Mondo and Chamber choosing to ignore the fight entirely and Rod Reis's incredible art work. Can't wait for Hickman's next issue.

“F**k or fight” Lmao this isn’t your dad’s Illyana. Gotta love Hickman

Lmao Illyana is freaking SAVAGE

Prelude:
Hickman is back on New Mutants. Now that we're back in space, let's see how things are going for the team.

The Good:
I did like the catch up and boy was it needed.

I liked the infographic for the Death Commandos.

Rod Reis' art is great in this issue.

Magik... Man, she was great here.

Love the character moments that were in this issue.

The Bad:
I'm not liking how these two individual stories are being done right now.

Um, actually the next issue is still in January, not February as the cliffhanger claims. (I don't care, wanted to make that joke)

Conclusion:
Great issue from Hickman, I am absolutely loving this side of New Mutants and therein lies the problem. I think the two stories that the series is doing is poorly constructed relating to each other. more

Epic. Hickman feels like a Master of the craft effortlessly creating gold. Thank god for art like this it worked so beautifully with this chapter. People will be talking a lot about this issue for Hickmans iteration of Magik and for good reason. This is what Comic Books should be. From the first page to the last this issue was constructed like a piece of art.

I'm really liking the voice Hickman has for Sunspot, which was very much on display here. I think it's evident that Hickman is having a good time writing these characters, which makes it all the more enjoyable for everyone reading. Plus, Reis's art is, once again, awesome. These two are a great fit for this book.

Another serving of the New Mutants' Space Yarn gives me lots of chuckles -- but it also bolsters my suspicion that this whole thing is a shaggy-dog story that's going to be a footnote in the history of DoX. It looks fabulous and this is the one place in the X-portfolio where Mr. Hickman truly puts character ahead of plot and world-building, so I don't really mind the footnote thing at all.

This is just pure art.

This book is so awesome when Hickamn and Reis are on board. It's night and day! Can't believe how much fun this issue was and Reis pumped some beautiful art to match!

Bobby hitting on bird lady, Illyana and f**k or fight. So good...

You can tell Sunspot is Hickman's favorite NM character and he has the arrogant lothario bit nailed with humor narration. There were about 2-3 other LOL moments in the dialogue as well, so kudos for that.

For my money, this is the best New Mutants issue to date from this volume, although 1-2 were strong. Marvel's decision to have the X-Kids detract from the ongoing nature of the book is very distracting and slows the progression of plot.

And I'm still wrapping my head around Illyana as the leader of this team (Mirage, Cannonball, Karma and Sunspot all seem to be the more obvious choice). Maybe the payoff for that is later, but it just seems a weird Krakoan decision since she is quite unstable!

So far I don't think Hickman has his finger on the pulse of having Mirage, Wolfsbane or Karma shine quite yet.

But thoroughly available and I want more more more.

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So that’s it? What, we some kinda Death Commandos?

"So... how are you going to drink that without a mouth?"

Now, this issue was a total blast, from start to finish.

Humor was funny, Sunspot wasn't irritating, Mondo and Chamber just chilling were great and I think Iliana just became my favorite. Her take on the flight or fight response surely is a unique one.

This issue also makes me aware of just how much Rod Reis' art has grown on me. The artwork here is insanely good.

If I had to nitpick, I would appreciate if the Death Commandos descriptions were somewhat visually tied to the characters they are describing. Then again, it doesn't really matter in the end.

" Now we're talkin'. "
- Magik