New Mutants Brings Back One of Marvel's Most Iconic 1980s Events
Warning: Spoilers for New Mutants #25 & 26 ahead
The current arc of Vita Ayala and Rod Reis' run on New Mutants is an emotional and exciting homage, and clear sequel, to the beloved X-Men event of the 1980s Inferno. By focusing on the trauma and healing of both Illyana Rasputina, the X-Man Magik and current Sorcerer Supreme of Limbo and Madelyne Pryor, former wife of Scott Summers and Queen of Limbo, New Mutants #25 and #26 has paid tribute to an iconic comic crossover event while also finally giving the characters some closure.
The 1989 crossover Inferno featured a Manhattan that had been overrun by the demons of Limbo and turned into a real-life Hell, transformed by the overwhelming demonic power of Madelyne Pryor the Goblin Queen, who had been heavily manipulated by the evil Mister Sinister and the demon N'astirh. This Inferno event is not to be confused with the dramatic 2022 X-Men Inferno storyline, the finale to Jonathan Hickman's tenure on his relaunched Krakoan Era of the X-Men, whose title was an homage to the damage and ruin caused by the original Inferno.
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New Mutants #25 and #26 — written by the acclaimed writer Vita Ayala with evocative art by Rod Reis — are the first two parts of the «Trials of Magik,» the current arc that is focusing on Illyana Rasputina returning to Limbo with Madelyne Pryor to give control over Limbo to the former Goblin Queen. The entire arc has been grounded in a fairy-tale re-imagining of Magik's childhood and her innocence, which was the central story and theme of much of the 1989 Inferno event. In the 1980s Magik, younger sister of Colossus, was dragged into Limbo by the demon Belasco and his minion S'ym
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