X-Men 2021 project continues!

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Spoiler

House of X/Powers of X ⭐⭐⭐
X-Men, Vol. 1 ⭐⭐
Marauders, Vol. 1 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Excalibur, Vol. 1 ⭐⭐⭐
X-Men/Fantastic Four: 4X ⭐⭐⭐⭐
X-Force, Vol. 1 ⭐⭐
New Mutants (Hickman), Vol 1 ⭐⭐⭐

This was fine.

I can see why these two different New Mutant storylines were split and told separately; Hickman's New Mutants was a fun space romp that got the band back together and featured lots of Shi'ar alien fun. Brisson's New Mutants stays very much on earth, dealing with very mutant topics.

Unfortunately, this story has been told five million times before, and it's been told so much better. Were it not such a lukewarm story, I may have been invested. As it was, all I could think of was tons of other classic anti-mutant storylines I'd rather read instead, particularly [b:X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills|299947|X-Men God Loves, Man Kills (Marvel Graphic Novel, #5)|Chris Claremont|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1288400749l/299947._SX50_.jpg|1410200].

Everything here was heavy handed and boring. The cartel thugs holding Beak's family and the New Mutants were boring. The Eastern European country trying to hurt the mutants who came in to save them was boring. The team going in to take on the website that doxxes mutants was boring (and manages modern social commentary terribly).

There was a lot of cool art in this, particularly with the new mutant they find that deals in nightmares - lots of really neat nightmarish, psychedelic spreads. That's about all I really liked about this.

I didn't really care about any of the story or the characters, in the end.