New Mutants: Truth or Death #1

(November 1997)

Truth or Death (Table of Contents: 1)

New Mutants / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script

Ben Raab (credited)

Pencils

Bernard Chang (credited)

Inks

Mark Pennington (credited)

Colors

Tom Vincent (credited)

Letters

Richard Starkings (credited as RS); Liz Agraphiotis of Comicraft (credited as Comicraft's Liz Agraphiotis)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

This, my friends, is the nightmare I called home...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Generation X: Chamber [Jonothon Starsmore] (picture); Husk [Paige Guthrie] (picture); Jubilee [Jubilation Lee] (picture); M [Monet St. Croix] (picture); Skin (picture); Synch [Everett Thomas] (picture)
New Mutants: Cannonball [Sam Guthrie] (from the past); Cypher [Doug Ramsey] (from the past); Magik [Illyana Nikolievna Rasputin] (from the past); Magma [Amara Aquilla] (from the past); Mirage [Dani Moonstar] (from the past); Sunspot [Roberto Da Costa] (from the past); Warlock (from the past); Wolfsbane [Rahne Sinclair] (from the past)
Cannonball [Sam Guthrie]; Douglock; Karma [Xi'an Coy Manh]; Mikhail Rasputin; S'ym (villain, Danger Room construct); Sprite [Kitty Pryde] (guest, from the past); Sunspot [Roberto Da Costa]; Wolfsbane [Rahne Sinclair]; Moonstar [Danielle Moonstar]; Limbo Demons (villains, Danger Room constructs)

Synopsis

The New Mutants are training in the Danger Room when Illyana is contacted by a figure who wants to help her circumvent her fate. Magik decides to teleport to the future and manipulates her teammates into coming. They arrive in the future at Xavier's to discover that little seems to have changed. In the present, the various members of the old New Mutants hook up to spend a weekend together. They discover their past selves and catch the old team up on the changes they have each undergone. Douglock lets it slip that Magik is dead. Mikhail shows up and tells her he can help her change that.