The New Mutants!

For my Fashion Hero brief and in conjunction with this post.

It's all well and good me making designs with various superhero teams and superhero's but not if no one knows who they are.
So, small load down on the new mutants and why I want to put them on a t-shirt.

First, the problem I have with the Marvel T-shirts currently for sale is that they don't appeal to current trends in teams and what people are following. I've found that a lot of women comic readers are following the New Mutants for various reasons. One being a bigger girl to guy ratio. Warlock doesn't count what with being an asexual robot alien.


The New Mutants were a group of teenaged mutant superheroes-in-training published by Marvel Comics. They have been the main characters of three successive comic book series, which were spin-offs of the popular X-Men franchise.

The first team of New Mutants characters was created by Chris Claremont (long-time writer of Uncanny X-Men) and artist Bob McLeod. They first appeared in 1982's Marvel Graphic Novel #4 and were subsequently featured in their own title from 1983 until 1991. Also, like its parent title, The New Mutants highlighted interpersonal and group conflict as well as action and adventure, and featured a large ensemble cast. With the end of the first series, the characters were relaunched as X-Force in a new, eponymous series.

In the first volume there were 20 characters used between eight years before the series turned into x-force. When the series was later relaunched it was with 7 new teenagers and the original new mutants making small appearances here and there.

Then finally last year the series was re launched and eight of the original characters were reintroduced. (Including a reanimated Cypher-dead for as long as I've been alive and Warlock who'd been re introduced a year before after roughly a ten year absence.)

Warlock:
Warlock is a member of the Technarchy race, and a New Mutant. Warlock is considered a mutant because he can experience emotions while the rest of his race can not (Not including his adopted son) Also my favourite.

Magma: (Amara Juliana Olivians Aquilla)
Magma has the ability to transform into molten rock & has control over the Earth. She was one the New Mutants, but left them to join the Hellions. She has since been a teacher at the Xavier Institute and rejoined her team-mates from the New Mutants.

Magik: (Illyana Rasputin)
The younger sister of the mutants Colossus and Mikhail Rasputin, Illyana is a mutant teleporter, sorceress, and the ruler of Limbo. Currently, she seeks to reclaim her soul.

Cypher: Douglas Arron Ramsey
With the cerebral ability to understand all languages, Cypher was considered to be one of the weakest New Mutants. He was best friends with Warlock, but was killed while defending Wolfsbane in battle. He was forcibly resurrected during Necrosha, and soon returned to the X-Men as a powerful strategist. (2nd favourite.)

Karma: (Xi'an Coy Manh)
Karma is a mutant with the ability to mentally possess other beings. A founding member of the New Mutants, she is one of the few confirmed and openly lesbian characters. She has repeatedly been a librarian at different schools and now aids the X-Men in San Francisco.

Cannonball: Samuel Zachery Guthrie
Current leader of the New Mutants. One of the very few who hasn't actually died yet (but his little brother has) Has been one of the most prominent acorss the X-men franchise.

Mirage: Danielle Moonstar
A Native American and a member of the original New Mutants, one of many mutants to lose their powers on M-Day. In order to stop Ares when the X-Men fought the Dark Avengers, she struck a deal with Hela in order to regain her Valkyrie powers.

Sunspot: Roberto DaCosta
Born in Brazil, came from a wealthy mixed-race family. A mutant with solar-fueled super strength he has a long history with the New Mutants, X-Force and other X-Men related teams. Often brash & quick to anger, he has been allied with many friendly & villainous teams.


Next on my list, X-men First class and The Young Avengers!