Ultimate X-Men - Volume 8: New Mutants

Out of the Ultimate X-men titles, I've read volumes 1 and 2 (issues 1-12), volume 7 (where Bendis began writing, and continued with this volume), and volumes 9-11 (with Brian K. Vaughn writing). This was the only volume with impact enough to keep me entertained while pushing me to view life from disparate perspectives. The writing is as brutally honest as an X-men book can be. The tough-for-the-sake-of-it teen angst attitude that plagued Millar's run (as far as I read) is gone in the place of a much needed level of maturity. A lot of X-men books exist in a world of moral ambiguity, with the heroes making tough decisions in completely gray areas. One of the issues in this collection exemplifies that tradition more profoundly than any other X-book I've read. If you want the best thing (and actually, the only good thing) to come out of the 100 issues of Ultimate X-men, look no further than Vol. 8: New Mutants. writing: [8/10] art: [8/10] color: [8/10]

It took me forever to find the th volume of this series. I don't know if I was looking to hard. I had the 9th before I got this one. Great story, things get stickier for Professor X and his X-men. I can't wait to see more characters from the X-men world.