The New Mutants # 31 - Saturday Night Fight

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Roberto and Amara battle the robot (see last iss.), and Roberto realizes that Kitty is inside. Kitty catches him but is able to break free of mental control and phases out of the robot, which collapses. A very fat Shan takes control of Alison and attacks them, and Sam blasts in with Rachel and Illyana, who gets a demon to take Alison to Limbo. The Gladiators attack, thinking they killed Alison, so Kitty has Illyana bring her back.


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  • Bill Sienkiewicz
    penciler, inker, colorer,

  • Chris Claremont
    writer,


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    Glynis Oliver
    colorer,

  • Jim Shooter
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    Joe Rosen
    letterer,

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    Nocenti, Ann
    editor,



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    Reviewed by dmstarz
    Sept. 8, 2008

    Saturday Night Fight

    When Karma returned to the New Mutants, having disappeared early on in the run, she came back grossly obese.  With Bill Sienkiewicz on art duties though, Xi'an wasn't just obese, she ballooned out of all realistic proportion into some kind of vile creation absolutely in keeping with Bill's expressionist mindset.  Here she fills the cover of this issue with her extraordinary bulk.  The odd thing is, though, that, in the last few years, I have seen TV programmes with people who are extremely obese and suddenly Xi'an's weight doesn't seem so exaggerated.  Karma isn't the only thing going on here though.  I love the puppet figures of the other mutants in front of her, regular team members seemingly providing backing vocals (or crazy dancing) to a glowing Dazzler.  It's all tremendous.  Incidentally, fat fighter fans, Karma did eventually lose all that excess fat thanks to a very long walk in the desert in a New Mutants annual a little while later.






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