 The Demon Bear has haunted Danielle Moonstar's dreams to horrifying life. It took her parents, and now it has returned for her. And only the combined efforts of her fellow new mutants can stop it from finishing the job. Hey everybody, welcome to another exciting episode, another edition of A Week in Geek Them here on YouTube. This time we're doing a very first on this channel. I am reviewing my very first X-Men book on A Week in Geek Them. I have read X-Men books in the past, but they're not necessarily my cup of tea, so I decided to go with something that genuinely piqued my interest. Now, two of my favorite characters in the X-Men roster, or the mutant roster I should say, is Scarlet Witch and Magique. So I went with that route, and I picked up the new mutants Demon Bear, Trilogy, Saga, Book, Compilation, whatever. Basically this is a compilation book that has to do with the symbolic character of the Demon Bear. Now if you don't know what the heck this is, basically the new mutants have to face this terror in the night that stems from the character of Danielle Moonstar. And she is able to pull her victims nightmares and dreams into life and whatnot. And there's this Cheyenne legend about the Demon Bear and stuff like that. The Demon Bear took her parents and family members and all that stuff, and now it's coming for her, this nightmarish creature that only she can see apparently, although later on the rest of the cast is able to see the character and interact with this huge freaking bear. Like when you see this drawing, it's legit. The size of the thing is huge. Now the problem with this book is that it is a compilation of tales. It says in the back that it's like a trilogy of the Demon Bear story, first with Claremont and Bilson Kavich and the work that they pulled off with the new mutants. And then with X-Force in the 90s and then the other X-Force series in the early 2000s, forming this sort of connective tissue between the three series and the Demon Bear being this anchor with all of the pages in this book. The plus size of this book definitely has to be the Claremont and Kavich stuff, the rest of the stuff I'll get to later, but those starting issues in this book is just fantastic. You get a real dynamic sense of danger, claustrophobia, fear, and just the outright terror of this unstoppable force that's coming for this young girl that is praying to have the strength to be able to defeat this wicked enemy. And it has to do with life, rebirth, death, and the symbolism that that implies. Of course she gets help from the rest of the new mutants, Wolfsbane, Cannonball, Sunspot, Majique, all these great characters. Now the parts that aren't exactly necessary are pulled from other titles and they're presented more as excerpts from the new mutants or the X-Force stuff and that can be okay I guess. You know, you're just getting the bear essentials, see what I did there, to understand the story and what the character of Moonstar, of Danny Moonstar is going through facing this huge demon. But in the long run, having not read this material ages ago, I know I'm gonna miss on the details and I am going to find it a little bit superficial because I didn't grow up with these characters nor have I read all their stories and all that stuff to get to a point where I can say like oh my god this is happening to these characters and I really feel for it. But kudos to these creators for making the story relatable no matter at what point in time you're reading it because it's great writing, it's a great suspenseful story with a group of teenagers that are left on their own on this hospital because the character of Danny is attacked by the bear and she is in critical condition. So the rest of the mutants, of the new mutants have to hold down to Fort. There is no larger X-Men team to help out, none of that stuff. Do you really get a sense of danger and inclusiveness and it's all got to do with Bill's art which is just legendary. I could just spend the whole video praising Bill's artwork and just how flawless and beautiful and wacky and alienish the bizarre way that it is drawn and it perfectly complements the book because we're talking about nightmare visions and demons and all that spooky stuff and the art makes the story look and feel like you're a part of the nightmare. That is, that can only be done by an expert artist and just Sankevich is the oxen out of the park, it's a legendary story. There's not a whole lot I can add to an otherwise stellar story and book. Now the negative of the demon bear trilogy book if you will, the X-Force stuff is very discombobulated to me. It feels way to 90s, actually the book was in 91, 92 something like that, written by John Francis Moore and a bunch of other people and yeah it was way to 90s with like excessive costumes and the demon bear wasn't as intimidating and it got resolved way too quickly and then it moves on to a connective tissue of sorts with the character Warpath in the Yoast X-Force series where he faces a bear of his own but it doesn't really have to do with what you read at the beginning with the new mutants. So when you say it's a trilogy, I'm like it's a symbolic trilogy of stories. Regardless, the book is fantastic, I loved it. If you're getting this book you gotta get it for the beginning stories not for the X-Force stuff and you are paying a low price if you're getting it like in stock trades or something like that. But for the full retail price of 20 bucks I'm like eh you know it's basically Claremont, Sincayvige and a bunch of colorful extras that I really did not care for and honestly I felt kind of bored by it, that's my honest opinion on the demon bear. What do you guys think? I am a, I guess I'm a fan of the new mutants, I'm really digging the team so I'm very much looking forward to picking up older material, the epic collections and all that stuff and reading about this team because one I was already a fan of Magique and now I'm a fan of Danny Moonsar because this is a character that you know she doesn't have like the strongest power set but she's fierce, loyal, determined to set things right you know an avenger family and just confront her fears and I think it's a lesson that people should take away that no matter how dark it gets you got to face your fears and if you've got good people by your side I think you can pull it off but yeah the new mutants the demon bear is pretty frickin fantastic I highly recommend it what do you guys think what's your favorite new mutant story let me know down below I'm very interested in finding out there's always gonna follow me on your favorite social media platform just type of we can keep them and I'm there for you guys all right I have got to go I will catch all of you on our next episode