New Mutants #8 - Marvel

This is quickly becoming another great X-Men book. Although I will admit that I wasn't overly thrilled with Diogenes Neves' art . . at first. But after 8 issues, I can really see how he's making this book, and these characters his own. Plus . . I think he's getting better. Zeb Wells is also constructing a very good story here. Last issue the Hellions attacked . . or the Zombie version. They used Doug to hurt Amara. Also Warlock returned. Although his was of his own volition. He tried to help Doug, but Doug took his head off . . and returned it to the deep. Now the team is trying to get Amara down to Dr Nemesis, to cure her. At the same time, they still have hopes of saving Doug. We do find out this issue that Illyana's soul-sword can disrupt the programming influence of Selene's version of this virus. It must have to do with magic. We don't get into the how's and why's just that the team uses it, and Karma's skills to defeat these Hellions. And when Illyana uses the sword to rid Warlock of malicious code upon his return . . he in turn uses it to fix self/friend Doug. By the way, Nemesis does indeed cure Amara. And the final nail in the Hellions coffin is when Warlock calls in some torpedo friends of his to blow them up. So it looks like the team may finally be all back together. Although, more than a few of them are very much the worse for wear. And, you have to ask yourself, how long do we really think this will last? I'm thrilled that this book is back. And I'm glad that we've finally got the original cast back together. Now we just have to wait and see if we can repeat any of that ol' magic. I've got high hopes for this book. I hope it meets them. So far . . I give it an A-. There's got to be room for growth. Right?