New Mutants is a mixed bag. The early stuff is pretty solid, but it's Chris Claremont, so it goes on particular melodramatic / cute-tastic / obsessive jags at unpredictable times. Liefeld amps up the 90s costumes (and the big explosions and big guns), introduces Cable, and feels very Image-like (for obvious reasons); it loses, though, from my recollection, a lot of the "teens" feel (except as a weird gun-punk Teen Rebels vibe).