Marvel‘s X-Men #1 is already on comic book stands. Next month, Uncanny X-Men #1 expands the “From The Ashes” line in New Orleans. And then in September, you’ll meet the next generation of mutants in Exceptional X-Men #1. Alternately, you can check out a bunch of covers featuring them — alongside Emma Frost and Kitty Pryde — right now.
In the new series by Eve L. Ewing and Carmen Carnero, Kitty is just trying to live her life in Chicago as a “normal” person, when she ends up meeting three young mutants: Bronze, who is metallic and wields a whip; Axo, who can control emotions; and Melee, a fighter skilled in stealth. Kitty will have to team up with Emma to train these new mutants, while also trying to understand why they put so many vegetables on hot dogs in the Chicago area. I may be making up that last part.
“Those who know that I was a poet long before becoming a comics creator will appreciate that EXCEPTIONAL X-MEN, in a world full of X-adjectives, simply sounds really good,” Ewing said via a press release provided to Comic Book Club. “But right now, they are exceptional in that they don’t carry a lot of the same history on their shoulders as the main characters in our other titles. For better or worse, they have no ties to Krakoa or broader team politics or the previous era of mutantdom. They’re just a group of awkward kids in the Midwest trying to figure out their abilities, like generations of young mutants before them.”
The first issue will include covers by Joëlle Jones, Elizabeth Torque, and Rose Besch; the first in a series of character spotlights by Luciano Vecchio; and a Foil Variant Cover by Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe. In addition, it will feature the final of Scott Koblish’s Wraparound Connecting Variant Covers, a Godzilla Variant Cover by Leinil Francis Yu, and a logo variant cover. You can check them out below, and click for larger versions. Exceptional X-Men #1 hits stores on September 2.
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