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The New Mutants: The Demon Bear Saga

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This book reprints The New Mutants 18-21 (from 1984), featuring the first four issues of Bill Sienkiewicz's stunning artwork on this title. These issues feature the first appearance of Warlock and supporting characters Tom Corsi and Sharon Friedlander, the arrival of Rachel Summers in this timestream, Magik's first experiences with her unusual armor, the destruction of Asteroid M, Dani's battle with the Demon Bear, and much more. The Claremont/Sienkiewicz combination is a touch more surreal than the New Mutants' usual fare, and helped to make the New Mutants a better-selling title than the X-Men for a time. Don't miss this one.

If you're a fan of the New Mutants or Chris Claremont's original run on the Uncanny X-Men, it's definitely worth your time to find a copy of this quality comic trade paperback.

The incredible art is a great strength: it meshes very well with Claremont's focus on characterization and use of magic and psychic abilities.

Other X-Men/New Mutants titles or collections you may want to read: "God Loves, Man Kills;" "X-Men: Asgardian Wars," which includes pivotal stories for the New Mutant characters; and the second and third Essential X-Men collections, which introduces Illyana Rasputin and the New Mutants to the X-Men.

This collects quite possibly my favorite set of comic books. I was lucky enough to read these stories as they were published. The art is extraordinary.
The stories are solid. The characters are engaging.