Adding to the bevy of new Chris Claremont X-projects (a bevy that already includes X-WOMEN) is the newly-announced NEW MUTANTS FOREVER with Al Rio. The same as X-MEN FOREVER and X-FACTOR FOREVER were continuations of aborted runs from the Marvel’s past, this series will finally realize what Claremont envisioned for NEW MUTANTS after issue #54. Considering that this series picks up plots from an interim period of around 23 years (about as old as I am), you shouldn’t be surprised that the original outlines have evolved.  Fittingly, much of the evolution has been informed by Claremont’s own children.

So intones Mr. Claremont…

"The difference in one sense is that when I was writing back in the day, I was writing totally from my imagination. Today I'm dealing with my own kids and their friends who are the exact age I need to deal with. Much like when Louise Simonson and I were evolving the character of Kitty [Pryde originally], it was a great advantage that her own daughter and her friends were exactly the right age. I ended up stealing as much as I could from life to make the presentation of the character work. The advantage in terms of writing the New Mutants again is exactly the same. I watch how my own kids relate to the world, how their friends relate to the world, how they relate to each other and hopefully, like any good writer, pluck the critically useful aspects and sprinkle them through the story so the characters themselves come across as more real, more relevant, more interesting and therefore, more accessible to the readers.”

Flashing back to 1987, this storyline takes place well before PLANET X, well before the launch of X-FORCE. The New Mutants are led by a reformed Magneto and their line-up consists of Cypher, Cannonball, Wolfsbane, Warlock, Moonstar, Magik, Magma and Sunspot. The unfinished storyline that Claremont aims to continue here has Magneto joining the Hellfire Club on a mission of peace.

I think this whole Forever imprint (if we can call it that?) is a fun conceit to finally see writers' original plans free of any continuity-based restrictions and editorial constraints. I, for one, would love to see Joe Kelly’s DEADPOOL run and the Seagle/ Rouleau ALPHA FLIGHT run get similar treatments.  Both of those series left a lot of dangling plot threads because they were canceled ahead of when they should’ve been.  I can’t help but think of Stephen King’s whole process of writing the DARK TOWER novels when I hear of these, as he’d pick that series up and revise details after numerous years-long breaks.

Anyway, it doesn’t matter what I think here, oh continuity-free Comic Vine community, but what you think. Do you like the looks of NEW MUTANTS FOREVER? What titles would you like to see get this Forever treatment?

-- Tom Pinchuk is the writer of UNIMAGINABLE for Arcana Comics and HYBRID BASTARDS! for Archaia. Watch out for the HYBRID BASTARDS! hardcover collection this April - - available for pre-order now on Amazon.com.

is this going to be a limited series or and ongoing one? if its a limited one then im buying it, im getting too many titles as it is lol

I heard they were going to do this.  I thought that Claremont left the New Mutants, not that he was pushed off the title.  But either way... despite how much I love (love love love) the New Mutants, I don't want this.  I'm tired of these Claremont vanity living-in-the-past titles.

Psychic arrow  Moonstar, I've missed you so much.
 
I'll get it on that alone.

" Psychic arrow  Moonstar, I've missed you so much.  I'll get it on that alone. "

" @pixelized said:

" Psychic arrow  Moonstar, I've missed you so much.  I'll get it on that alone. "

I hadn't even noticed that... Well, that just proves that Claremont' talking out of his bum-hole.  She didn't develop the psychic arrow till about a decade later during X-Force!  As if Claremont was originally going to use that.  Ha! ;p "

blech. it makes me mad that he won't just let it be. his version of the x-men sucks and so will this.

I really hate how Wolfsbane's powers are depicted with the wolf head and semi human body....there has got to be a way to make her look better when using her powers

hard to believe Claremont sucking so bad knowing just what he has done.

CHRIS CLAREMONT FOREVER by Joe Quesada

Is this going to be the same universe as X-Men Forever?

" Is this going to be the same universe as X-Men Forever? "

I hadn't realized that Claremont was still working in the comics industry.... until the last few days. I haven't read anything by him since his final issues of Uncanny X-Men & X-Men. I always thought the New Mutants as a concept was logical, since Xavier was, supposedly, running a school. It was a return to what the original mission statement of the X-Men was supposed to be.... finding & training young mutants.  Unfortunately, I never liked any of the characters that populated the team, so it was never a book I ever felt invested in. I think it's cool that Marvel is allowing the original creator to continue telling the stories he originally envisioned for his characters. That's probably the closest he'll ever get to having a kind of creator's rights to characters he conceived but are, nonetheless, owned by the corporation. Puzzled by all the hatred spewing out over Claremont. You'd think some small degree of respect would be offered to the man for actually creating the characters in the first place. Instead, though, I'm reading comments from people calling for his job. I don't understand why people take these things so personally, as if Claremont continuing to support his livelihood is some kind of attack on the fan base. No one is forced to buy anything they don't want. This series doesn't impact normal continuity, so where's the harm in letting the guy finish writing the stories he wanted to tell? The man's a writer, let him write. I'm not going to buy the series because, as I said, I don't much care for any of the characters, but I certainly don't begrudge Claremont for wanting to make a living in his chosen field.

These are about as useful as the Ultimate universe.

I honestly just think it is way too many books. You have how many different versions of these books, some that are in the current continuty and others out of place. As a reader and say if someone is interested in reading it, it can all get confusing. In addition, were people really demanding these stories? 23 year old dangling plot lines from New Mutants? If anything it will hurt the ongoing New Mutants book because people might be confused.

X FORCE FOREVER!!! w/ Liefeld drawing people with no feet! I'm def down for that! 

Oh my goodness, no! Claremont has done some inconsistent characterization with Magik I don't want it to get worst!

This should definitely be done to other Marvel characters to...
 
BLOODSTONE FOREVER!!!!!
 
*cheers*  :-D

so most of you despise this book, even though it has not been released and there is no way in 
any way shape or form any of you could have read it, nor a single opinion about it possibly be correct?
and not just despise to the point to where none of you will read it when it does, but you need for it to not be 
released and are offended by the fact that it is? and the reasoning is it is not lined up with the current issues
(not something that matters since it isnt supposed to be
 
and your all big fans of X-Men, at least the "classic " stuff...and hate Claremount.
you do know the writer of that same stuff was Claremount, right? the same guy all
the X-fans complained that they wanted back, and the same stories they claimed they wanted
back in spite of whats being written now? the demand that the X-books could have just continued
as they were and not change? the same Claremount that if he hadnt written the X-men,
you wouldn't have the X-men you love, nor New Mutants, nor even the animated series based directly off
of his body of work, nor video games based off that, and so on and so forth?
 
so to sum it up, there are two versions of the X-books. one line is new stuff that changed.
the fans demanded this.
the second line is a continuation of the classic lines.
the fans demanded this as well.
which in a sane world would be cool because that means the company is being kind enough to provide
a choice. it also means both are selling to enough people for both to continue, meaning the appeal is their.

the saying some people can never be pleased, and that they hate just to hate absolutely applies here.
 
the simple solution is dont buy it.

I don't hate Claremont.  I hate the fact that he has no place in modern comic book story-telling... yet refuses to retire.   
 
X-Treme X-Men - instantly forgettable.   
X-Men: Forever - the stories he wanted to tell 20 years ago... except that's been proven wrong since he's used characters that weren't around at the time.   As pointless as an on-going What If...? story.
X-Women - a cheap excuse for soft porn with his favourite characters.   Has no relevance or place in continuity.
New Mutants: Forever - just give it a rest... the team isn't that popular,  and as Jordama said... it's using the same formation of the current team... so what's the point?  To tell the stories he didn't get to tell back then?  Sorry, but where have I heard that before???  Oh yeah, with X-Men: Forever... and it was a load of bull then.  These aren't the stories he'd have told in the late 80's/early 90's.  Don't insult our intelligence by pretending that he was going to give Dani Moonstar psychic arrows when that was someone else's idea entirely. 
 
Everything that Claremont has written in the last decade has been either in-continuity & forgettable/retconned, or out-of-continuity & pointless.  He may be a very nice man, but his stories haven't had any impact on modern era comic books for over a decade.

" Is this really even necessary considering the New mutants, basically the exact same team, is already back together, with years more character development. X-Men Forever and even X-Factor Forever brings back teams that no longer exist the same way. "

I hope they release something (a catch-up) for those of us who weren't even alive when Claremont's run was going on.

Not a huge fan of these books.

You're all missing the point. And the point is: Doug Ramsey Is Not Dead. Some of us have been waiting years for this moment.