Exceptional X-Men #2

[mastermahan]

This issue: Will Kitty get all the way through a date before mutant stuff interrupts? You know the answer already.




(More like Expositional X-Men, yuck yuck yuck)

Comments

[icon_uk]

Heavy exposition in the first couple of issues of a series which has a LOT of new situations and characters to explain I can forgive, provided it doesn't become a habit (Kitty narrating her life to the reader is going to get old quickly)

Interesting they've made Kitty's first open actual going on a date girlfriend NOT Illyana, and not even a mutant (as yet).

Tangential question, what IS Nina wearing? From tat last panel it looks to be an ankle length slashed skirt which, whilst undeniably stylish, seems an odd choice to wear to her cousin's soccer game, even if it is also a date.

I hadn't been paying attention to the new line ups particularly, so am pleased to see that Thao is a tall, rather buff, girl. I confess from the cover I thought that she was male, since she is lacking the usually insisted upon prominent bust. The influence of both writer and artists being female and wanting some variety I hope?

[onsokumaru]

I'm sure that some writer will at some point hook up Illyana with her former babysitter, but I'm glad we dodged that bullet here.

[beyondthefringe]

Until I double-checked, I thought for sure Axo (aka Alex, the color-changing one) was non-binary from the way he was presented, but no, press releases use he/him so... I am happy that comics are getting to the point, very slowly, where I -can- start to wonder/assume that characters might be trans, enby, queer, some combination thereof. I like the variety of appearannces amongst this new trio.