Will the New Mutants be able to get out of Carnelia alive in New Mutants #11, by writer Ed Brisson, artist Flaviano, colorist Carlos Lopez, and letterer Travis Lanham. Things heat up for the team, as the group inside the sphere is about to be eaten by nightmares. While others outside are at the mercy of the Carnelian prime minister and his army.

Armor, seeing her dead family, begins to let her guard down. Cypher tells Mondo to do something before being pulled away. Outside, the troops start to close in on Mirage, Wolfsbane, and Boom Boom and engage the three mutants. Inside the sphere, Mondo saves part of Armor's energy field and put it around him and Wildside. They get to the girl, and Wildside changes her nightmares to good dreams, and she wakes up. The sphere disappears, leaving the weakened New Mutants surrounded by troops. Just as things are about to get heated, Magik shows up and whisks the team back to Krakoa. The team licks their wounds and figures out a way to help the girl called Cosmar before Magik enlists the team to take on the Dox website's creators.

Brisson front-loads all the drama into the beginning of this issue, and it works pretty well, to be honest. The sequence inside Cosmar's nightmare sphere is pretty interesting, especially the part with Mondo somehow using Armor's energy field, which isn't something his powers were really capable of before. Readers have seen him and Cypher together in previous issues, perhaps practicing with his powers, so maybe Mondo learned to absorb energy and manifest it just like he is able to do the same things vegetation or rocks and sand.

Boom Boom is becoming a bit of a stand out character. She's basically a cynical party girl soldier, always ready to explode and gets in some of the best lines in the book. She's pretty openly antagonistic to everyone else, but there's something about her where everyone can tell it's an act. Since Hickman left the book, a character like her is needed because things are otherwise pretty heavy in this book. The last part of the issues sees the team decide to take down the website that has jeopardized the lives of mutants, something that readers should have expected to happen.

Flaviano's art is improved in this issue over the last. His linework is stronger, and his pencils are generally more detailed. All of the stuff inside Cosmar's Nightmare Sphere looks great, and the two-page spread of good dreams taking over the sphere is one of the best parts of the book. The other is when Magik comes down like an avenging angel to save the team. Both of these sequences look great. Cosmar herself also has a very nice, but freaky, look that he pulls off nicely.

New Mutants #11 wraps up things in Carnelia for now. Brisson makes sure to leave things a bit open-ended- there's no way the country's prime minister is going to take a bunch of mutants insulting him very well. He sets things up for the future expertly as well. Taking the team to deal with the Dox website. Flaviano's art is pretty good in this issue without some of the deficiencies from previous issues. New Mutants #11 wraps up its storyline nicely and gets readers ready for what's coming next.

Grade: B+