I've been playing Spider-Man 2 on the Playstation recently so this comic book caught my eye as a free download on Prime Reading. I'm very out of touch with current Marvel continuity, but that wasn't really an issue here. The elevator pitch is that there's a mole in Professor Xavier's School and Peter Parker has been tasked by Wolverine to take on a teaching role with a class of new mutants to ferret out the truth. All of the students were new to me as characters, but they're an engaging bunch especially Glob Herman (a skeleton inside a translucent blob like body) and Shark-Girl (a well, you get the idea).
The do the classic X-Men thing of rushing into danger, getting captured and having hi-jinks whilst Mr Spider-Man tries to teach them something about great power and great responsibility, blah, blah, blah. Each issue in this collected edition features a different set of villains, with the mystery aspect of who is the mole being nicely done and paying off in the end.
Not sure this would get me back into regular comic reading, but probably one of the better ones I've read since the collected Ms Marvel series.
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