New Mutants #99 (March) The Beginning of the End part two.
Fabien Nicieza, Rob Liefeld.
Sunspot leaves to take care of his recently assassinated dad's business interests, meaning he won't be getting in the way of any non-stop action to come, the whiny fucker; and we meet Feral, who is essentially Wolfsbane but better because she has bigger tits, triangular hair, and her main interests are revenge and growling with no personality to get in the way of either. Also we learn that Thunderbird, younger brother of the original, is similarly interested in war and revenge, so he's an obvious shoo-in for the revised team, now down to just Cannonball and Boom Boom from the original bunch, both of whom should know better, although luckily they both fit right in thanks to the magic of what I suppose we'll just have to call character development. The art is very much blossoming into that which I remember disliking first time around with the bumhole mouths, dead eyes, and anatomical Vorticism; plus we get a first glimpse of one of Rob's innovations, the excessively-muscular dude in a suit and tie drawn as though the clothing is printed upon a skin hugging superhero leotard like those comedy chefs' aprons you buy for a relative you don't know very well. I'd say Rob is unable to draw figures in loose clothing and instead adapts regular dress to the exaggerated superhero frame except that's obviously not true, so fuck knows why he thought it looked anything less than ridiculous. The final page introduces yet another new guy freshly minted from the Liefeld house of ideas. He looks like some sort of ninja, or maybe an assassin and he's called Shatterbolt, or possibly Deadblade, unless I've mistaken him for Deathshrike or Killtool or one of the others.
Wait…
Shitterstar, I think. I'm sure it's him. I may need to check the spelling. Anyway, it seems safe to assume a million fan wankers spunked their pants when they turned to that final page.
I didn't like this issue very much. I don't know if you can tell.
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