Thoughts

The New Mutants/Cloak & Dagger saga continues in this issue – as things get worse for Roberto, but seemingly better for Rahne. Meanwhile the original Cloak and Dagger continue to unconvincingly make statements that they aren’t going to help the kids before deciding they will indeed help the kids.

This is an issue with a great collection of moments, strung together in a story that is clearly heading exactly where you’d predict it would. How the new mutations work out for Sunspot and Wolfsbane are inventive, especially how they further effect the likes of Piotr and Illyana Rasputin. Indeed there’s more than enough fun moments to distract from the fact that there isn’t really much of a story here.

There’s also the fact that when the Darkness kicks in with Roberto it looks incredibly like the Demon Bear, or even Warlock at their craziest. There’s a signature look to this title which is really striking, but its already becoming dangerously repetitive. There’s more to the artists than all-out bug-eyed craziness but that seems to be the well we keep coming back to.

Fun Panel

Mutated Sunspot and Wolfsbane create a great image in the exposition. Let’s have more fighting with these guys!