COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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New Mutants 7
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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1187232004
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Owner:
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bagofleas
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Just cause you cut YOUR hair with an axe doesn't mean the rest of us have to!!
Published: 9/83
Chris Claremont story,Bob McLeod cover
Sal Buscema and Bob McLeod art
Story Title: FLYING DOWN TO RIO!
SUMMARY:
Thanks to their powers, All the New Mutants managed to survive the explosion except for Karma, who cannot be found, in spite of Prof X, the X-Men & the New Mutants efforts.
Roberto's mother, Nina, arrives & after an argument with Prof X, Roberto declares he's quitting. The Prof is sure Shan is still alive but wants the young mutants out of harm's way. The other New Mutants have a heart to heart with Roberto & he changes his mind.
While everyone else searches for Shan, the New Mutants go with Roberto to his mansion home in Rio with Nina. They spend a dinner with his mom & dad (Emmanuel) who proceed to embarrass Roberto by arguing over Nina's forthcoming trip to the Amazon, where she plans to do what she can to help preserve the area. Emmanuel plans on taking advantage of the area to increase his monetary profits.
The next morning, Nina & the kids go into town during Carnival & go shopping for costumes to wear at the Governor's ball later. While trying on costumes, Nina is kidnapped by Hellfire Club goons & the mutants are left to deal with Axe, a large, strong black mutant with, you guessed it, an axe.
Axe slows the kids down enough to escape with more goons. Rahne mindcalls Dani to let the others know she is on the trail of the villains in wolf form.
Later that evening, Rahne leads the others to where the goons are keeping Nina with the animal mind link she shares with Dani while in wolf form. Rahne finds out the baddies are waiting until their employer arrives to do anything. The mutants come up with a rescue plan.
Rahne howls loudly to put the already-on-edge Hellfire goons into a jittery mood. Axe berates them for being wimps & tells them to go check the "haunted" house if they can do it.
While the goons search the dark house, Psyche confronts them with each of their fears & she & Rahne take them out!
Sunspot, in a rage over the treatment of his mother, storms into the room with Axe & Nina. He smashes the floor, knocking Axe off his feet & Cannonball shoots forward, grabbing Nina & heading straight out of the house.
Roberto takes on Axe directly & is so pissed that he knocks the big man for a loop! Take that Axe!!
A few days later, the mutants leave on a plane with Nina to the Amazon & we discover that Emmanuel was behind the abduction of his own wife, along with Sebastian Shaw, to keep her from interfering with his plans in the Amazon! He doesn't plan on letting the others reach their destination...
Continued in #8...
PERSONAL COMMENTS:
OK, so the kids are all alive, except for Shan, who they can't find. I wondered if this was some sort of trick to get her out of serving her Uncle.... or if something more ominous lay in wait. Was she really dead? Would they ever find her body or would it never be explained?
Meeting Roberto's parents was interesting, but his dad seemed the heartless type. Kind of a jerk really. But finding out that he was willing to put his own wife & son at risk for his own selfish goals was infuriating. Sebastian Shaw continued to be a hidden danger, now trying to get Bobby's Father to join the Hellfire Club.
The Axe character was sort of an anti-climactic villain. All it took was pissing Bobby off enough & BOOM... out like a light.
I was quite curious of what awaited the kids in the Amazon...
Incidentally, this was the last issue to refer to Dani as "Psyche". She is simply referred to as Dani or Danielle until issue #22.
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