New Mutants Omnibus Volume 2 Overview!

[@nathans2831]

You are a pro and a gentleman when addressing the controversial issue and the censored dialogue sir. Thank you.

[@mrpepperami01]

Really shocked that the censored that part of the book. Couldn’t they have put a warning just before that issue?

[@Krypton_Ken]

Agreed, I really would've preferred a warning. I think most of us purchasing the omni understand the context of Kitty's speech as well as the era in which it was written.

[@SuperMcgangbang]

Yes. There is no reason for censorship that is trying to be educational. No one who uses those words towards people learn them from material that actively tries to stop that behavior.

[@Martin_TheCollector]

The best part about censored books is that I don't have to waste my dinero/cheeze.

[@t2comicbooksoverviews251]

really good overview omar ,i could watch you talk about every issue in that book, in every overview video really i always enjoy vids taking their time showing off books. because i learn alot about comics watching you.

[@carlramos9445]

I love that you talked about issue 45. That's my favorite New Mutants issue.

[@MastermindAXL]

Interesting that they censored the words for "New Mutants" #45. It's censored in the digital version on Marvel Unlimited, and, presumably, must be censored on Comixology. But the trade and hardcover for "Marvel Comics: The World Outside Your Window," leaves the words intact probably due to the nature of the book. I do like the blurb they added at the bottom of this Omnibus, though, about the hotline and resources for those struggling.

[@MayasMotivation]

How many more volumes to collect this New Mutants run?

[@ComicSwag]

I like the yellow border on the covers with the black & white outline . I haven't read to mush new mutants but I have to get on that

[@Avarn388]

Excited to pick this up. Going through volume one and am loving it.

[@TheComicBookReport]

I’ve never read New Mutants, does it start strong or take a bit to find its footing?

[@Avarn388]

@@TheComicBookReport It's one of those series that I argue is in the latter. Much as I love the run, it can be a bit slow and the teenage drama, while I like it, it is pretty typical. It does start to pickup once Magik joins the group and Claremont really finds his footing( The demon Bear saga is excellent). Overall, I'd say it is worth checking out the team. It has a unique dynamic from the previous X-men teams, especially with the introduction of the Hellions and the Masschusets Academy. Plus, Volume two has the Firestar mini-series which I argue is one of the most underrated mini-series of the 80s. And Firestar herself is underrated.

[@TheComicBookReport]

@@Avarn388 wow thank you for taking the time with this feedback. I’m just making my way through the Claremont X-men stuff now and loving it and looking at adjacent series to check out so this is definitely good to know/think about :) Thanks!

[@Avarn388]

@@TheComicBookReport No problem. I hope you enjoy the New Mutants. They are my favorite X team and I got into them reading the excellent 2009 run by Zeb Wells who coincidentally did a great but sadly cancelled run of Hellions.

[@mawinstallation6626]

Can I get into The New Mutants by jumping straight into the Omnibus Vol. 1? Or do I need to read some X-Men stories beforehand? I've never read it before but it seems really promising,

[@Piercewasright]

Preordered this from cheap graphic novels last year. Now that they have preorders it makes it so easy to order something as soon as it's announced and then not worry about missing out on it.

[@1330timbuktu]

I went a little crazy. I got my first omnibus about a year ago (Wolverine) and within the past year i now have collected about 15! I was thinking of New Mutants Volume 1 to add sometime soon

[@jameswoollard6686]

I've done the same, almost all x-men collected now! 😅

[@1330timbuktu]

@@jameswoollard6686 i would get more xmen ones but i can't justify buying them if i have graphic novels with lots of the same material in them.

[@anthonyufert8477]

I highly recommend both New Mutants omnibus. If ur a X-men fan then u will not be disappointed.

[@1330timbuktu]

@@anthonyufert8477 thanks. I might just make volume 1 my next purchase

[@OrangeGeemer]

I went 29 on 6 month plus a few preoders (I'm really looking forward for The Question omni). So keep getting them ;)

[@bigtroy750]

Love the channel - thx for the quality videos. I definitely wouldn’t have preordered this cover if I knew the art wasn’t going to fit properly 😕

[@21roy_]

Soooo glad I canceled the regular to re-repreodered the DM, the spine is far better! What a beautiful book!

[@terskatti4994]

I gotta say, i don't like censoring reprints. It's hypocritical imo. Otherwise great looking book.

[@jonnyneverland5276]

I have the DM cover pre-ordered. I still need to read Volume 1. 😬

[@TheComicBookTrove]

I'm so hyped this one, Volume 1 was one of my favourite reads last year

[@craigcamplin9580]

Now I want an V3

[@usmcmsgt5487]

Where did you get those bookshelves from?

[@GrayskullPrime]

I was actually planning to buy that until I saw it was censored. Now I'm going to look twice before I buy any trades from Marvel in the future. I'm not a child who needs someone to sanitize my content. Especially, when the point of it is that the bad words are bad. Guess I'll have to start collecting back issues if this continues going forward.

[@mnm25chango2]

Little late to this, but JUST picked it up and I can’t wait. I love how in your review you say, “let’s keep moving, otherwise I’ll review every issue and no one has time for that.” Omar, I have time!!! Post your uncut long form video reviews!

[@TNraised615]

😂

[@terrencecoccoli524]

Why is the DM Arthur Adams version on every website show a different cover?

[@kevinconnor3187]

I might have to buy this omni for page #249 alone.

[@신한나-q1t]

Wouldn’t mind listening to you talk about these issues for a couple hours…

[@robertday4390]

To be honest I’m not a huge fan of the dustjackets when they shrink the original wraparound image to fit the front cover. I’d prefer a wraparound cover much like War of Kings. That said, the contents are very impressive! Thanks Omar, another comprehensive overview!

[@TarsTarkas2]

I expressed my dismay at the fact issue 45 had been censored below...but wanted to clarify further. This issue really did mean something to me. I was bullied relentlessly as a kid. I bear the people who did it no ill will. They are as much a product of time and circumstance as I was. But it was still terrifying. Comics like this actually helped. It tried to show the effects that constant slurs can have. No matter how thick skinned you try to appear....they can get you deep. This comic tried to show the devastating effects of this and helped me to understand that this was wrong and that I did NOT deserve this. Yes the words that Kitty uses are unacceptable....but that is the whole bloody point. By censoring them it kind of cheapens the effect it had on me (and I suspect many others). Someone has decided these words are unacceptable to be reprinted without recognising that the whole point of this comic was to HIGHLIGHT that these words and insults are unacceptable. It really continues to anger me. I know this is only a comic but as a kid I felt like a complete misfit and outsider and New Mutants helped me feel better about this. I hope you can relay this to the higher powers at Marvel, Omar. I do appreciate these beautiful books they produce...but in this case they REALLY got it wrong...in my opinion anyway. Thanks as always for your stellar overviews. :)

[@durant100]

I echo and support your statement Tars. 100% I'm very disappointed in Marvel.

[@notorious.k.i.p.]

I can't wait to read this when my copy arrives on tuesday! I love this era of the new mutants and xmen. Marvel needs to collect every x-title in omnibus format!

[@jackfairy666]

I hate hate hate CENSORSHIP! A few people deciding what we, as legally consenting adults, can and cannot read. For me, it is so un-American that we’re in this situation. Incidentally, I still have this issue and re-read it to make sure I wasn’t imagining what I remembered when first reading it as a child. Kitty’s speech is so in-your-face crude but with heart. It was heartbreaking because when I high school, I had a friend who killed himself because he was gay and didn’t anyone finding out; not his friends or his family. He was so ashamed of who he really was that decided it’d be better to be dead than to live his truth. Kitty’s speech has been taken out of context through the choice of words used. Shame on Disney/Marvel for censorship of this very powerful material. I say BOYCOTT this censored version of this book. At least until Marvel sees reason to reprint it uncensored. If they were smart, they’d reprint an uncensored version made-to-order with proof of age as an adult. If they don’t want kids reading it fine. But don’t treat adults as children (even though we sometimes act like them). Gotta take the training wheels off sometime, ya know? I’m sure most of us can handle it. 👍

[@jeffstryker2419]

Yeah, this is a symptom of the hypersensitive nature of our current times. We could read and contextualize things better back in the 80s and 90s I guess, but you can't trust people to do that anymore. I definitely won't buy this book.

[@deadmousyplutaprestige8771]

This is the first censorship in omni's or masterworks I have heard of. If you pick up kazar omni kazar's chick is getting the taste slapped out of her mouth every issue almost, even peter parker throws her a beating. So slapping chicks up is cool but talking about real world issues isn't. Shame on you marvel

[@Cyberbot2484]

Totally agree. Most of the comments here are just loving the art, but a huge piece of dialogue which drives the story is gone.

[@tomaszdziedzic6284]

Hey Omar, why don't you put the previous volumes togeter to get a look at the spines? You did it with Flash recently and now this. Any bigger thought behind this or have you just forgotten?

[@NearMintCondition]

If I had them out I would. 90% of my collection are in boxes. We are in the process of moving.

[@tomaszdziedzic6284]

@@NearMintCondition Understandable then :)

[@deadmousyplutaprestige8771]

Any explanation for the delay depending on what cover you want? This makes no sense to me

[@DENABYSTEVE]

Great video Omar, I have the dm on pre order, is there a reason the dm covers are coming out after the standard instead of the same dates? The Howard the duck by zdarsky and x men vol 2 and dr strange vol 2 all have the dm covers releasing weeks later among others

[@allnovieveryday]

This is the first time in a long time where the DM cover is a must for me... better in every way. Just my opinion tho. Interesting how they squashed that two panel art page onto the cover with the empty space. Looks good

[@miguellupi8709]

Can't wait for this book and the next volume. Recently bought two of the X-force books. The collection is getting there 😊

[@brianschmitzer6722]

I really hope they reprint the first two X-Force omnis. I just missed out on those and my collection looks empty without them.

[@xXCigarXx]

What two x-force books did you get?

[@Krypton_Ken]

@@brianschmitzer6722 Same here. I've only been collecting omnis for the past year and I missed out on those, the ol bookshelf needs them.

[@miguellupi8709]

@@xXCigarXx The first Omnibus (Liefeld) and the Cable and X-force one.

[@ZsoltSchumacher]

Shame on you Marvel for censoring your own work!! I always hate those kind of things anywhere...... it should be as it was when it was created, no matter what!

[@Borgeldplays]

Any idea why X-Men/Alpha Flight arent collected in here to complete the Asgardian Wars story? Are they collected in any other omnibus?

[@danriley6237]

X-men / Alpha Flight is in UXM Vol 4.

[@Borgeldplays]

@@danriley6237 Thank you for the quick answer. Got that aswell. So glad I pre-ordered this omni :)

[@rmenard]

I’m very disappointed to hear that an issue was censored. Art, whatever form it takes, should never be altered by censors who judge art they didn’t create with their specific point of views. In a free society, people should be able to interpret art by themselves.

[@germaholic]

Yeah, especially in the beginning of the books when they said in the disclaimer that they were presenting the stuff unaltered as a learning experience.

[@theartistknownaszack9234]

I wonder what vol.3 will have and hopefully we can get a vol.4 as well

[@brianschmitzer6722]

I'm torn on which cover to get. They both look fantastic. I think I'll wait for the DM version, because that helps my bank account for another month. Haha

[@tylerelliott1235]

Will pick this up after I get the next uncanny X-men omnibus that I need

[@johnlindsay7301]

I just had my copy delivered. I’m getting pretty close to having this entire section of X-Men in my collection. Just waiting for Fall of the Mutants and I’ll have everything available. Hopefully they solicit an Uncanny vol. 5. That’ll do the trick. I’ve been holding off from reading my Inferno Prologue omnibus until I get the FotM omni. Until then I’m reading my Geoff Johns Flash omnis. And obviously this book.

[@Katsudon305]

I ordered the standard edition. Both covers and spine looks good to me. Thanks for the overview. Excited for my copy.

[@Alvarakk]

I like the design of the dust jacket. Marvel is getting a bit more artsy, which is great to see. I really don't understand the need for spine in the middle of the connecting covers on the hardcover there.. really breaks up the visuals. Anyway, great collected edition there!

[@candyjams8416]

Did you order or buy Batman dark victory deluxe edition?

[@NearMintCondition]

It takes a while for the book to come in. Be a little patient.

[@candyjams8416]

@@NearMintCondition ok. Did you order it?

[@mannyc19]

I Pre ordered this and the reprint of Volume #1 last Fall at Organic Priced Books..Hate the censorship,its wrong,Period. I am a POC and have no issues with the language used,but hey,some fools need their safe spaces. :/

[@Chandasouk]

More like Old Mutants now, right guys?!

[@jsbethke]

CENSORED? Wow, I'm seriously reconsidering buying this all the sudden. Could definitely spend all that cash on something that hasn't been censored.

[@markzimmer5467]

Oh man if I had known this would be the DM cover I would have gotten the standard. Totally different from the solicits I saw.

[@drderrickchua]

Was confused awhile there when uou said that the DM dustjacket cover was Special#2 then later said the same image on the bookcover and front piece was Special#1.

[@NearMintCondition]

I confuse myself all the time. Welcome to my world.

[@kevinconnor3187]

The standard edition cover wins the day.

[@candyjams8416]

What about Batman dark victory deluxe edition?

[@danriley6237]

Really weird they included Firestar in here. I get the Emma Frost / Hellions connection, but it would have gone better in UXM Vol 4 with issue 193.

[@djsuth7727]

Waiting for my copy to arrive later this month. This is my era of comics !

[@AmaranthineLove]

Does anyone know what it looks like under the dust jacket on the standard edition?

[@NearMintCondition]

It’s identical to this one.

[@g-roy23]

Pleased the actual hardcover has the wrap around art, not crazy about the cover version, shame though the spine cuts out Enchantress rather than be a complete wraparound hardcover like Excalibur V1 was.

[@dancosta2126]

Great review, Omar, of a great Omnibus. The Extras are beautiful and love they included Firestar four-issue series. I have her X-Men Origins edition and its great. The problem here is that they managed to spoil it with a single, irrational and dangerous act. It totally goes against what they preach and the flags they have been raising lately, which is precisely freedom of speech. A complete inconsistency. We readers should send a direct and important message to Marvel/Disney that, in this case, censorship is a brutality. I will sadly skip this one waiting for a reprint.😔

[@TarsTarkas2]

I rather sadly agree. I am passionately against censorship like this and regretfully may have to pass on this as well. Beautiful book though.

[@davidc1664]

That art! My goodness. How’d this book get such fantastic art!

[@TheComicBookReport]

Love the similar formatting choices compared to vol 1

[@TheComicBookTrove]

Always nice to see consistency! Meanwhile DC are like "how can we make all our collected edition volumes as different to each other as possible?" 😂

[@TheComicBookReport]

@@TheComicBookTrove hahah soooo true

[@nelsoncarvalho6338]

Got this preordered. I would have liked for secret war II 8 to be included bc it shows how they come back. I was confused when reading the classic paperbwcks

[@NearMintCondition]

Part of it is.

[@nelsoncarvalho6338]

@@NearMintCondition ok cool. I didn’t think I saw material from listed. Part of it is all that’s needed. Thx

[@egorshaparenko3913]

Omar, please, if you show the second or third volume of smth, could u please compare it to the first volume, so we can see, how it looks on a shelf 🙏

[@NearMintCondition]

If it wasn’t boxed up. Believe me I always do my brother.

[@oliverl.5834]

Weren't there some health issues with his clone-body (cloned by the Shi'ar) that made Professor X leave earth?

[@jeremyslate4052]

I just have to say that the censorship is straight bs. I absolutely do not support that and it almost is enough for a cancellation. You cannot rewrite history. They should have just given context. I guess I’m going to have to buy the old tpb for this issue.

[@Avarn388]

Jeremy Slate They could have added a warning before the issue. This reminds me a lot of Mushoku Tensei where in the Light Novels the translated ones were censored, having removed entire scenes which while very lewd were plot relevant. Fans were pissed and the outrage was enough that the LN company publishing Mushoku Tensei reissued the books with the content added. I make my stance very firm. I am not denying the words uttered in that panel are bad/ hurtful. But they are a product of the time and I believe the art of that period, no matter how hurtful, needs to be maintained.

[@germaholic]

Am reading this now. Not happy about the censorship of issue 45. This being AFTER they had the disclaimer in the beginning of the book that they were leaving things unaltered as a learning experience. They left the first letter so I could make out what most of the slurs were but it's still dumb and cheapens the whole point of that speech. I hate censorship and I'm tempted to buy the issue on Ebay just to have it in its original form, since it doesn't seem TOO pricy, but we'll see. This omnibus as a whole is kind of difficult for me to read, not because of the contents, which are great, but because the binding on my copy is messed up and Instock Trade only allows 2 days after receiving the product to return it. I glued things back together and I THINK it's okay but I still hear crackling sometimes so I'm still so scared of messing it up again. Definitely a pain in the ass, especially since volume 1 had such good binding. No need for a volume 3 because New Mutants 55 through 73 are already collected in Fall of the Mutants, Inferno Prologue, and Inferno omnibuses. They'd just need to collect issues 74 through to the end to get all of New Mutants collected in omnibus format and not sure how Marvel would go about doing that.

[@JClif]

With this and Excalibur Vol. 2, this is going to be a X-tastic month!

[@ericl7842]

Unreal. Can't wait for this one on mail day. Brilliant art and colors!

[@PeeDeBee]

Interesting to note that I initially received an incorrect copy, where the Web of Spidey Annual was not included completely. Instead, a section of 16 pages was duplicated. Not the worst part of the book to be missing, but I still asked for a new copy, which was flawless.

[@grzegorzciombor5848]

I need this book in my life :) cant wait to get it.. Thanks Omar:)

[@Lastsonkal]

I like both covers and choosing which I want has been a process. Omar, just like you, I couldn't get all the comics I wanted. Except I choose Secret Wars 2 event book over tie ins. Frugal? yes. Wise choice? Not so much. Would have been nice if Marvel kept the censored page in the "extras" section.

[@benniemartin78]

I pre-ordered this and I’m looking forward to getting it! I hadn’t read much New Mutants before getting volume one and had a lot of fun with seeing these characters when they were younger after growing up with the original X-Force

[@xposhboyx]

🦞 lobsters with super powers. Makes perfect sense.

[@KalleVilenius]

This is the good stuff right here.

[@sazmurph540]

Of course I'm picking this up! Can't wait for the whole series to make it to omnibus form.

[@brunobillion3435]

Karma wasn't possessed by her brother, but by the Shadow King.

[@fabioriccardo9290]

You never Heard of somebody wanting fallen Angels collected? I bought the Premiere hard cover some years ago since i have been curious about syrin and Maddrox relationship for years when they Met on muir Island..

[@Krypton_Ken]

Think I'm going to go with the BWS cover but it's such a close call, both are phenomenal. Love those stories, Magneto as Michael Xavier and being the headmaster of the school really worked for me back then, gave everything a bit of an edge and a bit of unpredictability.

[@anthonyufert8477]

I am so pumped for this omnibus! I went with the Windsor-Smith cover but both are nice.

[@davecironelibrarykid]

Sooooo happy to finally get Volume 2 -- I was psyched to get the Art Adams cover (when it was solicited) but this redesign is waaaaay different. I hate that Marvel keeps doing that! -- Also the "frame" around the cover art just reduces the impact of the cover -- the abstract background doesn't add anything.

[@Alestier1]

In the grander scheme of the X-Men universe, when should this be read?

[@samjones4419]

A fine book, will pass as I have the Classics that cover this era. Good that Firestar is included. Shame about the censorship with issue 45. New Mutants seemed to be a maligned title for most of its run. But I always enjoyed it.

[@jwanwaldon2509]

Oh my God I love this. I will be getting the Barry Windsor Smith cover. It will be worth the wait. ❤❤❤Marvel comics rocks. 🤘🏼👍🏼✌🏽

[@Cyberbot2484]

Disappointed by that censorship and will skip. That's ridiculous. Selective censorship like this makes no sense. Tomorrow it could be another speech, too tight costumes, etc. Place a disclaimer in the opening of the book if need be and move on. This book should be delayed to fix this issue. C'mon now.

[@kevinconnor3187]

Good extras

[@mzqamarul]

So excited to read this!

[@hamzadawud]

This series is a blindspot for me. As someone who just started getting into Claremont's X-Men within the last few years, I need someone to sell me on why I need both New Mutants Omnis, lol.

[@Krypton_Ken]

I'll give it a shot! 😁 For me, Louise Simonson is right up there with Chris Claremont. When I was collecting way back when, her New Mutants and X-Factor runs were just as exciting to me as Claremont's stuff.

[@juuso7792]

By censoring the book Marvel made the decision for me, I'm not getting this.

[@jeffstryker2419]

$150 for a censored book? No thanks.

[@garywillig5143]

As far as I'm concerned they can end the collections of New Mutants here. The Louise Simonson run is horrible, especially for Magik. Simonson forgot what happened in the Magik mini-series and wrote Illyana as if she'd killed Belasco instead of sparing him in Limbo. Her entire characterization is based on that giant mistake and I firmly believe N'Astirh was created because Simonson thought Belasco was dead and so a new villain was needed. The New Mutants parts of Inferno were atrocious.

[@lotsalube]

What?!? Charley had a heart attack in the x-men comic before leaving to be cured, asking mags to take over the school . Not a duchebag move.

[@NearMintCondition]

Dooood. Spoilers…. ;)

[@PeeDeBee]

Eagerly awaiting its arrival!

[@timothydohm3974]

O, look...Marvel is capable of still doing a nice spine!

[@comicnutt7677]

Looking forward to this one.

[@bigstewinorlando7059]

New Mutants..was never my Jam lol My Jam was Generation X..much better Art 👍 I hope It gets the Omnibus Treatment...soon 🙈

[@Stephen_D421]

I thought the same thing but for Xmen (90s) but New Mutants ended up being one of my.best Omni reads last year. Not sure if its cause I lowered the bar.

[@TheBeatlesFan86]

Uncandy bromar

[@carrion_man3700]

Censorship is a disease.

[@trueKurdebelek]

this censorship reminds me of communism, good work Marvel

[@joshuahelmeke]

HAZAH!!!!

[@guillermojacum7014]

Magneto has always been my favorite character since he has always been the "Good Villain" Guy. Well, to be honest "my" always is not the "actual" always since my first issue was uncanny X-men 168 (not kidding Omar) which means I joined the mutants after 150... and even after 161... I.e., after Chris Claremont got rid of what I call "the John Byrne effect" (JB has always been keen on an evil Magneto, we all know that)