The New Mutants #99
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeNew Mutants #99 is the penultimate issue of Marvel's original New Mutants series and the direct staging ground for X-Force, one of the defining team titles of the 1990s. It delivers the first appearances of two founding X-Force members — the feline Morlock Feral (Maria Callasantos) and the Mojoworld gladiator Shatterstar (Gaveedra-Seven) — both of whom would go on to anchor early X-Force storytelling and resonate through decades of Marvel continuity. The issue also crystallizes the series' thematic pivot: Sunspot's departure and Warpath's recruitment signal that the New Mutants era is conclusively over, replaced by Cable's militarized vision of mutantkind. Shatterstar in particular proved durable enough to headline his own limited series, become one of Marvel's prominent LGBTQ+ characters, and appear in the Deadpool film franchise.
In "The Beginning of the End, Part Two," the New Mutants face escalating tensions as Feral, a Morlock, seeks refuge at the X-Mansion, while Cable recruits Warpath after his village falls to the Hellfire Club’s wrath. Sunspot is swayed by Gideon’s persuasion to leave the team, and Cannonball’s defiance sparks a confrontation with Cable—just as Shatterstar materializes in the Danger Room, throwing the team’s future into uncertainty. Written by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza and illustrated by Rob Liefeld, with colors by Brad Vancata and letters by Joe Rosen, this 1991 issue features cover art by Rob Liefeld, capturing the chaos of a team on the brink.
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With New Mutants #98, Rob Liefeld assumed full creative control over the series as plotter and artist, with Fabian Nicieza scripting dialogue over his plots — a collaboration Liefeld himself described as essential to the book's momentum. By issue #99 (part two of the three-part 'Beginning of the End' arc, edited by Bob Harras with Suzanne Gaffney as assistant editor), Liefeld had already pitched Marvel on relaunching the team under a new title — proposals included X-Terminators, X-Cutioners, and ultimately X-Force — and was populating these final issues with characters he intended to carry over. Liefeld's design for Shatterstar drew consciously from an unused early sketch of Longshot by Carl Potts, complete with a white costume and eye tattoo, which Liefeld acknowledged publicly. The cover, credited on the comic itself as 'after Byrne,' is a deliberate homage to John Byrne's cover for Uncanny X-Men #138 — the issue in which Cyclops quit the X-Men — making the visual parallel between that earlier era-ending moment and this one explicit.
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- First appearance of Feral (Maria Callasantos), a feline-mutant Morlock created by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza, who escapes Masque's control and seeks refuge with the New Mutants in this issue.
- First appearance of Shatterstar (Gaveedra-Seven), a genetically engineered Mojoworld warrior created by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld; he appears in a single silent panel on the Danger Room floor and is not named until New Mutants #100.
- Shatterstar had a preview pin-up in New Mutants Annual #6 (July 1990), labeled 'A Vision to Come,' predating his in-story debut here.
- Sunspot (Roberto Da Costa) departs the New Mutants in this issue, manipulated by Gideon, who is positioning himself as a guardian while pursuing his own agenda.
- Warpath (James Proudstar) formally joins the New Mutants after discovering his reservation at Camp Verde has been devastated, believing the Hellfire Club responsible — a mystery later resolved by revealing Stryfe as the true culprit.
- The 'Domino' appearing in this issue is later revealed in X-Force #8 to be the shapeshifter Copycat (Vanessa Carlysle), not the real Domino.
- Cover is an acknowledged homage — signed 'after Byrne' by Liefeld — to John Byrne's cover for Uncanny X-Men #138, the issue marking Cyclops's resignation from the X-Men.
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Reprinted in Titans #156 (1992), X-Force Megazine #1 (1996), Cable: Second Genesis #1 (1999), X-Force: A Force to Be Reckoned With #[nn] (2011), X-Force Omnibus #1 (2013), Nous sommes les Nouveaux Mutants #[nn] (2020), New Mutants Epic Collection #8 (2022)
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