COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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New Mutants 8
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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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1187232005
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Owner:
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bagofleas
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
I hope you DON'T get the point Sam!!!
Published: 10/83
Chris Claremont story, Bob McLeod cover
Sal Buscema & Bob McLeod art
Technically, this is the first appearance of Amara Aquilla, who becomes Magma in issue 10!
Story Title: The Road To... Rome?
Story Summary:
The New Mutants are in the Amazon jungle, along with Nina, Roberto's mom. The kids are exercising their powers with a game of hide & seek. After that, Sam practices his maneuvers through the trees (He's gotten much better!).
The kids contact Prof X & give him their status & training results.Their is still no sign of Shan & the Prof tells them to stay where they are right now while he deals with Team America & some other issues. The kids think Prof X isn't telling them everything about Shan but let it go for now.
Dani tries to swim across a river & Sam has to rescue her from piranha by blasting across the river, scaring the crew on the boat that's transporting them. They crash into the shore on the other side & find themselves in a battle with some female Amazonian warriors.
Sam captures one of the women & takes her back to the boat. After an argument among the crew, they move off. Bobby & Nina can't make sense of the captured girl. She carries 3 different types of weapons from 3 cultures, none apparently native to herself, but she says nothing to them.
In Rio De Janiero, Emmanuel & Sebastian Shaw speak of the Hellfire club's failure to stop Nina & the kids. Emmanuel speaks of the treasures waiting to exploit in the Amazon & how he will stop at nothing to acquire them, even if it means the life of his wife & son!
In the Amazon, the group nears their destination, Maderia, and a supposed lost city of gold. Rahne finds one of the crew, Castro, trying to torture info out of the captured warrior girl & stops him by changing form & scaring him off.
Rahne releases the girls bonds & learns her name is Amara. When Rahne goes to tell the captain about Castro, she finds the captain dead & she is knocked out by Castro in a surprise attack!
She & the other mutants & Nina & Amara wake to find the boat deserted & on a course to a waterfall!! The boat crashes & Sam has to rescue most everyone from the raging waters.
Rahne pulls Amara from the water to find that she can speak English & was in disguise. She's actually white-skinned & blonde-haired! Sam takes them to where he's put the others & tells Bobby that Nina can't be found.
Bobby freaks, but then the group is confronted by Roman soldiers who declare them slaves of Imperial Rome!......
Continued in #9...
PERSONAL COMMENTS:
This issue both excited me & confused me at the same time.
Sam zooming through the trees was cool, but the thought of lovely Danielle being gnawed on by dozens of piranha was terrifying.
I wasn't all to surprised to see Amazon warriors, until the captured one turned out to be anything but an Amazon woman.
I grew more furious at Bobby's father, who was sinking farther into madness as far as I was concerned.
The kids are sabotaged, nearly killed & Nina goes missing again! Poor Bobby.
Then suddenly, Roman soldiers??? What the heck? Where was all this going?
Ever been thrown into a situation where nothing seems to make sense? It's easy to act without thinking, but harder to wait things through to their end to see where it leads. Life is like that sometimes...
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