Demon Bear is Back in April!!!!

[xmanson]

Ok, just in reprint, but still... Finally, the CC & Bill 5e20 run gets reprinted...

http://www.amazon.com/New-Mutants-Classic-TPB/dp/0785131191/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200274535&sr=8-1


Book Description
The New Mutants face a demon menace and befriend an alien misfit! A rock concert pulls them into the orbit of a multi-galaxy music star, then the team, with Cloak and Dagger, is drawn into a deadly exchange program...of super-powers! Plus: Hellfire Club intrigue and early steps on the path of reformation by Magneto! Action, romance, family reunions and a fairy tale! Anything else? Oh, right, guest-starring the X-Men! Collects New Mutants #18-25 and Annual #1; 256 pages; Publisher: Marvel Comics (April 23, 2008)

$ 19,79!!!

[jarrod]

Sooooo hott! Now we need Dani to return to the core books and bust some heads... Scott and Emma's heads specifically. :D

[Cayman]

Demon Bear is my hot hot sex.

[drwho]

Those covers during that period of time are works of frigging art.

[DDM]

I'll buy the TPB. So many things happen in these issues such as the new team comes together--with then new members such as Magik & Magma--to fight the Demon Bear along with the original 4 New Mutants (without Karma); Doug Ramsey at last joins the team via with the introduction of Warlock; Selene joins the Hellfire Club (bad for Sebastian Shaw & Emma Frost as well as the X-Men & New Mutants); Lila Cheney is introduced, & we learn what happens with the weird link between Wolfsbane & Sunspot with the powers of Dagger & Cloak respectively...

[MuhollandDriver]

*sighs*

The New Mutants. i was what...twelve years old when i started to read them. They were just as much my friends as my ones in "real life".

[Yoshi]

I need to start finding old new mutants backissues *writes on checklist*

[Accroître]

Isn't this the story that introduces Rachel Summers to this time-line?

[ClanAskani]

Isn't this the story that introduces Rachel Summers to this time-line?

Yes, it is.

[Accroître]

Yes, it is.

Awesome...does she play a prominent role in the overall story...seeing how I have never read this story?

[The Lucky One]

Demon Bear is my hot hot sex.

The Demon Bear is where I want you to touch.

If I had enough money, I would buy a copy of this for every X-fan who started reading the books when I did (1993) or later, and then make them read it. Claremont's New Mutants was even better than his X-Men.

-D

[The Lucky One]

I need to start finding old new mutants backissues *writes on checklist*

Yes, you do. I'm too young to have read the book when it first came out, but I bought a huge run off of eBay in college and found out just how many great stories I missed out on. Awesome book... anything from #17-54, annuals 1-3, and the special edition is money.

-D

[Hi-Fi]

I'm all over this. Love this New Mutants era.

IMPORTANT INFO: Rogue guest-stars!

[Teh m0nk3y]

Just had a nerdgasm. All I need now is a cigarette.

[ReaderX]

Demon Bear? Is this the Great Beast, the same Demon Bear that No Nose Wolverine beat down, the Demon Bear that created the wendigo?

[drwho]

So awesome for anyone that has never seen these before.

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/2755/2755_018.jpghttp://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/2755/2755_019.jpghttp://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/2755/2755_021.jpghttp://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/2755/2755_025.jpg

[The Lucky One]

Demon Bear? Is this the Great Beast, the same Demon Bear that No Nose Wolverine beat down, the Demon Bear that created the wendigo?

Uh... I've never heard the latter parts. I doubt Wolverine would survive a tussle with the Demon Bear, its primary weakness is magic. As far as I know it's only shown up in the initial New Mutants story and a later X-Force story, neither of which featured Wolverine, though I could be wrong. Didn't think it had any ties to the Wendigo either.

-D

[frog]

Demon Bear also showed up briefly in Avengers: The Iniative when Dani came in to train Trauma. He didn't last long!

[Teh m0nk3y]

Besides I thought the wendigo was a curse within the Canadian borders for those that partook in cannibalism.

[Dagger]

The Demon Bear is where I want you to touch.

If I had enough money, I would buy a copy of this for every X-fan who started reading the books when I did (1993) or later, and then make them read it. Claremont's New Mutants was even better than his X-Men.

-D
It's sad cause it's true. I loved his stuff with JR Jr. but his New Mutants were just a cut above what he was doing with the regular team.

[jarrod]

It's sad cause it's true. I loved his stuff with JR Jr. but his New Mutants were just a cut above what he was doing with the regular team.
I always felt Claremont's "spin off" Xbooks (New Mutants, Excalibur) were generally better than what he was doing in Uncanny at the time. His Wolverine stuff was solid too actually.

[Dagger]

I always felt Claremont's "spin off" Xbooks (New Mutants, Excalibur) were generally better than what he was doing in Uncanny at the time. His Wolverine stuff was solid too actually.
Totally agree. Especially his NM. There's just something that resonated to me when I started reading these books. Although, his Excalibur wasn't as funny as he was trying to make it out to be, it was far better than the Outback era of the team, imo. Re-reading his stuff is making me appreciate how good of a writer he used to be yet pi$$es me off at how far he's fallen.

[jarrod]

Totally agree. Especially his NM. There's just something that resonated to me when I started reading these books. Although, his Excalibur wasn't as funny as he was trying to make it out to be, it was far better than the Outback era of the team, imo. Re-reading his stuff is making me appreciate how good of a writer he used to be yet pi$$es me off at how far he's fallen.
Yeah, NM/EX/WV Classics are a god send... I try to pretend neXiles isn't real and Betsy and Tess are really off on some tropical beach sipping mojitos and assaulting underage cabana boys. :(

[The Lucky One]

Personally, I felt like the Outback stuff was pretty solid, but the period in between UXM #175 and the Mutant Massacre didn't grab me nearly as much as the New Mutants stories from the same period.

-D

[Dagger]

Yeah, NM/EX/WV Classics are a god send... I try to pretend neXiles isn't real and Betsy and Tess are really off on some tropical beach sipping mojitos and assaulting underage cabana boys. :(
Mmmm mojitos! I want a Appletini please! And an barely legal cabana boy;)

My favorite Wolverine solo was his Kitty Pryde and Wolverine mini. BEST. WOLVIE. STORY. EVAR. imo.

[Dagger]

Personally, I felt like the Outback stuff was pretty solid, but the period in between UXM #175 and the Mutant Massacre didn't grab me nearly as much as the New Mutants stories from the same period.

-D
It was a meh period of time for me. I didn't care for the characters the same way I did from say UXM 166-213. Sure, I liked the new additions, but I was missing Kitty and Kurt and Rachel. Dazzler, Longshot and Psylocke just never seemed to have the same chemistry the previous line-up did.

[DDM]

Isn't this the story that introduces Rachel Summers to this time-line?

Yes, however, Rachel Summers appears simultaneously in The New Mutants #18 & Uncanny X-Men #184 released in the same month. Chronologically, The New Mutants #18 happens first & the next day she is hunted by Selene in Uncanny X-Men #184. Rachel returns "home" back at Xavier's school after the X-Men rescue Rachel from Selene.

[DDM]

Awesome...does she play a prominent role in the overall story...seeing how I have never read this story?

No. Rachel is just reintroduced with a flashback of the military killing Xavier & blowing up the mansion. Rachel runs away from Illyana when she eventually realizes she may be in the wrong timeline. The story picks up in Uncanny X-Men #184.

[DDM]

I'm all over this. Love this New Mutants era.

IMPORTANT INFO: Rogue guest-stars!

Rogue, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Storm, & the Morlock Healer...

[DDM]

Demon Bear? Is this the Great Beast, the same Demon Bear that No Nose Wolverine beat down, the Demon Bear that created the wendigo?

No. The Demon Bear is related to Cheyenne Native American folklore. The Wendigo is also from Indian folklore, but a separate legend from the Demon Bear.

The Great Beasts have nothing in common with either the Demon Bear or the Wendigo.

[Beast]

I knew I mentioned this somewhere. There's a lot of good stuff coming in Trades.

http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=201194

Plus in June is Excalibur Classics Vol. 5, Alpha Flight Vol. 2, Kitty Pryde and Wolverine, and more. :D

[Agent_Torpor]

Mmmm mojitos! I want a Appletini please! And an barely legal cabana boy;)

My favorite Wolverine solo was his Kitty Pryde and Wolverine mini. BEST. WOLVIE. STORY. EVAR. imo.

Better than the Wolverine mini, with Miller on art? That's was the high point for Wolverine for me. Nothing else has ever come close.

[jarrod]

Mmmm mojitos! I want a Appletini please! And an barely legal cabana boy;)

My favorite Wolverine solo was his Kitty Pryde and Wolverine mini. BEST. WOLVIE. STORY. EVAR. imo.
I loved it too (along with the Claremont/Millar solo and Simonson/Mignola Jungle Adventure) but my fave Wolvie story is still probably the BWS Weapon X. It's a real tradgedy that it's been so mangled recently by hacks like Loeb and Way. :(

[Dagger]

Better than the Wolverine mini, with Miller on art? That's was the high point for Wolverine for me. Nothing else has ever come close.
For me, yes. I loved it. I love the Wolverine mini w/ Miller, I just liked the other one better.
I loved it too (along with the Claremont/Millar solo and Simonson/Mignola Jungle Adventure) but my fave Wolvie story is still probably the BWS Weapon X. It's a real tradgedy that it's been so mangled recently by hacks like Loeb and Way. :(
That was a good one. Yeah, it's too bad it's getting mangled so badly. I blame Paul Jenkins for writing that awful Wolverine: Origins mini a few years ago that got the ball rolling.

[jarrod]

That was a good one. Yeah, it's too bad it's getting mangled so badly. I blame Paul Jenkins for writing that awful Wolverine: Origins mini a few years ago that got the ball rolling.
Yeah... but we all know the real mastermind behind it all is fatty Q. Just part and parcel of his overarching plan to dismatle the mutants piece by piece... man, who knew he'd be so bitter getting X-Factor after being passed over for Uncanny. :P

Claremont, PAD and Hama's excellent work on Wolvie's solo shouldn't go overlooked, especially Hama who was on the book for years of solid stories. I really liked Meltdown too, though that's largely because it has (sexy) Alex and Scarlett. <3 <3


At this point, I'm not sure how to "fix" Wolverine. Maybe give him to Gaiman and Bachalo exclusively (no X-Men, no Avengers, no X-Force, NO ORIGINS)and throw in Dani as his new young(ish) protoge on some sort of personal discovery/vision quest? It could work...

[xmanson]

I just fucking love Bill Sink#$%&¨%$'s art so much. I mean, those covers are absurdly gorgeous, the interiors looks fantastic and the combination of script+art was just mind blowing. Yes, i love this run so much.

[pryde15]

I just fucking love Bill Sink#$%&¨%$'s art so much. I mean, those covers are absurdly gorgeous, the interiors looks fantastic and the combination of script+art was just mind blowing. Yes, i love this run so much.

I don't remember where, but I am pretty sure it was the Demon Bear saga, that was available on some site. Where it was the original individual pages in black & white, each going for over a $1000.00

[DDM]

I need to start finding old new mutants backissues *writes on checklist*

Bill Sienkiewicz's entire art run is only The New Mutants #18-31 w/The New Mutants Annual #1 (cover only); however, he is the inker on The New Mutants #35-39 before leaving the series completely. Bill Sienkiewicz's contribution added another layer for Chris Claremont's scripts. Magik looks more demonic or evil by his inks (to contrast her bright silver armor & Soulsword). The same applies to Selene when she is dressed as a normal citizen except for the heavy shadows around her. Magma really appears to be made of lava. Warlock looks like he's made of wires...

However, I would seek out Chris Claremont's stories in The New Mutants #1-54, The New Mutants Special Edition #1, The New Mutants Annual #1-3, Marvel Graphic Novel #4: The New Mutants (1st New Mutants), & Marvel Team-Up #100 (1st Karma)

[xmanson]

Was it Bill who designed Warlock? He must have been cursed by the pencilers who came after him...

[Agent_Torpor]

I just fucking love Bill Sink#$%&¨%$'s art so much. I mean, those covers are absurdly gorgeous, the interiors looks fantastic and the combination of script+art was just mind blowing. Yes, i love this run so much.

God yes. Bill Sienkiewicz was the first artist I actively sought out. His covers were beyond cool - and so different than anything else at the time.

[just another user]

Love these issues....

Are they being re coloured or is it exactly the same as the original artwork?

Thanks

[DDM]

Was it Bill who designed Warlock? He must have been cursed by the pencilers who came after him...

I'm not sure if Bill Sienkiewicz designed Warlock, but I'm sure Claremont gave him a head's up about Warlock when he got assigned the book. This also means he designed Warlock's father, the Magus.

Alan Davis does Warlock justice as does Jackson Guice, Rick Leonardi, & Arthur Adams. They seemed to have fun drawing Warlock because he's so freaky looking in appearance...

Do you think the names Warlock & Magus are a nod to Jim Starlin's Adam Warlock stories?

[DDM]

Love these issues....

Are they being re coloured or is it exactly the same as the original artwork?

Thanks

I think they are not going to be recolored, but the colors will be improved as the other The New Mutants Classics TPB have been.

[Monty_Cristo]

Demon Bear sounds like a pet name. kind of like 'pooh bear.' ohh bother.

[just another user]

Thanks DDM.

[DDM]

Demon Bear sounds like a pet name. kind of like 'pooh bear.' ohh bother.

Well, Chris added "demon" to the bear because in the original legend he's just called the Great Bear or Bear. Demon Bear sounds more ominous.