New Mutants (2019) / YMMV

Arc Fatigue: The Shadow King plotline has been running since issue 14 and ends at issue 24. The arc's length is exacerbated by the book's delays, meaning that the arc lasted a whole 13 months.
Awesome Art: The first cover alone, which is a Retraux-style cover based on the '80s clearly inspired by the iconic covers of Bill Sienkiewicz's original art for the series. Yet, it has a few touches, such as the logo made to look more charmingly '80s rather than a modernization.
Base-Breaking Character: Once again, Glob Herman is a divisive character. You either find him charming and pitiable, or an annoying, shallow weirdo who takes away screentime from others. He's also Ed Brisson's self-admitted Creator's Pet.
Broken Base: Hickman's attempt at being Denser and Wackier than his usual style. Does it work, or is it trying too hard, and just comes across as irritating?
Catharsis Factor: Glob really giving it to The Unfettered Joseph Canning, letting him know under no uncertain terms he will break Krakoa's "kill no man" rule if his website results in hurting one more mutant, even if it means meeting the same Fate Worse than Death as Sabretooth. The Dox site is taken down in the next page.
Ensemble Dark Horse: Newcomer Cosmar is this if fan art is anything to go by.
Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Maxime and Manon, the twins from Extermination (2018), weren't liked for being mere plot devices, as well as being yet more young new mutants — something fans have a stigma against due to the already-bloated cast, editorial's tendency to ignore them after a few years and general bitterness about other forgotten X-kids. However, this book fleshes them out and makes them anti-hero Tyke Bombs that stand out amongst their more heroic contemporaries. Their unsettling use of their powers has also generated a lot of discussion as to whether they're Creepy Good or Ambiguously Evil.
Squick: Rahne and Xandra flirting, given that, even ignoring retcons and Comic-Book Time, Rahne should be at least in her mid-twenties and Xandra is not.
They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Fans of Sunspot's characterization in New Avengers (2015) and U.S.Avengers aren't exactly taken with him being reduced to a ditzy, selfish, egotistical manchild, with none of said Magnificent Bastardry on display.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
- Chamber, in the Hickman issues, tags along on the space mission, and proceeds to do sod all, contributing absolutely nothing to the plot.
- Mondo picks up the Useless Ball in the second Brisson arc, doing nothing except getting captured along with his teammates. Cypher runs a close second, serving mainly to clarify the plot for the readers in a way that wastes Boom-Boom and Mirage's time — Dani explicitly calls it out as "Dougsplaining" what they already know.
Unexpected Character:
- How many thought a New Mutants revival (who generally lean towards the mystical and slightly horror-esque rather than spacefaring sci-fi) would have them teaming up with the Starjammers?
- The first issue also includes the return (in Ad form) of Murd Blurdock, a character so obscure that X-Men editor Jordan D. White stated pre-release that not even the character's creators were expecting it.
The Woobie: This comic pretty much asserts that even with this new life for the young mutants of the Akademos Habitat, their troubles are far from over as their past traumas still haunt them, anti-mutant sentiment is still very much a thing, and older mutants who swore to protect them stll fail them from time to time:
- We learn in issue 12 that like most mutants Glob had an Abusive Dad who dragged him to anti mutant protests and got a whole lot worse when his mutation activated.
- In issue 14 we learn that Evan Sabah Nur was not resurrected after his death in Age of X-Man because he's a clone. After all the grief he went through for being a clone of Apocalypse, this is a real Kick the Dog moment, denying him his individuality from the villain which was all he ever wanted.
- Gabby is also left wondering what will happen if she dies since she's technically a clone of a clone. Not to mention her sister is still missing.
- Cosmar had a rough go of it being doxed by Canning on top of having her body warped by her mutation and her new powers going haywire.
- And now Rahne. If you thought her turmoil was over since issue one said so, think again. Turns out her son Tier is not on queue for the resurrection protocols.

YMMV / New Mutants (2019)

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