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

[numeronone]

Bigger question: will future writers remember she's bi?

[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?

[scorntx]

Hey, when you're a Claremont character it's hard to shake the habit of narrating every little thing you do.


Is... Emma psychically stalking Kat / Kitty?

[huntleyhaverstock]

Thao quoting MLK Jr.'s Letter From a Birmingham Jail. I dig it.

[blues32]

...who is she talking to in the first page...?

[superfangirl1]

Is Kitty Pryde the same age as Dick grayson? Forever 21?

[esmegrey]

I'm liking the series overall, but Kitty narrating out loud to no one in particular is REALLY clunky. Expository dialogue is a common trope, but this...is not working. I could run with it if she was just kinda muttering about her life, but the moment she has to tell herself the name of the woman she's dating, it is like nails on a chalkboard. Takes me right out of the book.

[goattoucher]

I am always delighted to see Slender Kitty.