In which we Xplore The New Mutants #8 - Leaving on a jet plane... the New Mutants are confronted with the 5 stages of grief following the disappearance of one of their classmates. Carnival is fun until Roberto’s mother is kidnapped. A racist caricature with an axe, calling himself Axe, tangles with the team but Roberto takes him down a peg or two. It’s off too the Amazon Rainforest for an archeological dig but Sebastian Shaw and the Hellfire Club aren’t far behind.