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[jewishcissiekj]

Concept Art from X-Men: From the Ashes Sampler

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Exceptional X-Men #7 (2025) - Gonzales variant

[why-i-love-comics]

X-Men: Hellfire Vigil #1 (2025)

by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, Javier Garron, Jed MacKay, Netho Diaz, Sean parsons, Stephanie Phillips, Roi Mercado, Geoffrey Throne, Marcus To, Gail Simone, Luciano Vecchio, Eve L. Ewing, Federica Mancin, Alex Paknadel, Declan Shalvey, Jason Loo, Sara Pichelli, & Murewa Ayodele

[wordishismart9]

Oh come the fuck on

Laura is 100% implying that in a gay way

Like without a doubt

And yet we get this bullshit

Anyways... fuck you Colin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing for teasing us like this

Or fuck you editorial for preventing Kamala from being queer

[heckcareoxytwit]

A preview of X-Men: Hellfire Vigil #1

X-MEN: HELLFIRE VIGIL #1

One year ago, at the final Hellfire Gala, the dream of a unified mutant nation was forever shattered by a cowardly sneak attack by anti-mutant forces.

To mark the moment and to proclaim loudly and strongly to all concerned that mutantkind still stands, the time has come for X-Men of all stripes to come together in solidarity and celebration. Written and drawn by the creators of the entire X-line, and featuring the meetings and moments that fans have been asking for since FROM THE ASHES began! A keystone moment marking the movement of one era into the next and setting up story threads that will play out across the X-line across the next year! X-Men: Hellfire Vigil #1

Written by: Murewa Ayodele, Eve Ewing, Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, Jason Loo, Jed Mackay, Alex Paknadel, Stephanie Phillips, Gail Simone, Geoffrey Thorne Art by: Netho Díaz, Javier Garrón, Federica Mancin, Roi Mercado, Sara Pichelli, Declan Shalvey, Marcus To, Luciano Vecchio Cover by: Luciano Vecchio Page Count: 64 Pages Release Date: July 2, 2025

[comicwaren]

From Exceptional X-Men #010

Art by Carmen Carnero, Federica Mancin and Nolan Woodard

Written by Eve L. Ewing

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

Oh, never change, Emma. Never change.

[orangedodge]

The most glaring weakness of Exceptional X-Men, the thing that stands out the most against its predecessors (Mekanix, Ultimate Spider-Man, All-New Ultimates--the books it aspires for comparison to) is that almost no one has any problems that aren't 100% about being an X-Man.

Outside of a pair of Trista spotlights--where we do see the intersection of the structural racism that surrounds young black women in the actual world, with her fictional aspect of being a mutant--there are no obstacles that are not purely superhero oriented. It's all just the ethics and responsibilities of being a teen superhero, which I think came off well in the Champions, but we expect differently from the X-Men.

In Mekanix, Shola is a stateless person who faces persecution from Immigration officers, most notably via threats of deportation and a racially motivated refusal to grant him protected refugee status. In Mekanix, Kitty is unlawfully surveilled by the federal government, her apartment is raided without probable cause or any suspicion of wrongdoing, and she's singled out and detained as a person of interest in a terrorism investigation in which she was a victim. In Mekanix, Xuan is harassed by both municipal and the federal governments, for being an immigrant and for having friends that the state dislikes, and has to navigate legal threats like having her lease voided (and the welfare of her children threatened) as a way of pressuring her to cooperate with police. The fact that, as former X-Men, Xuan and Kitty had these previous lives as liberal rights activists is what helped them navigate the other problems they were facing, help protect other people like Shola, and identify and reach out to sympathetic bystanders.

The conflicts they faced were what lead to both Xuan and Kitty realizing that there was value in their time at the Xavier school, and helped create the mindset that would allow for them to return as teachers in New Mutants vol 2 and in Astonishing X-Men.

In Exceptional X-Men, what are Trista, Thao, and Alex getting out of their training beyond the thrill of being costumed superheroes? What is Kitty getting out of mentoring them that she couldn't have gotten out of being their physics tutor or their dance instructor? Thao has a bit of a pretense of aspiring to work as a grassroots political organizer, but it's treated more as a sign of a well-meaning but overbearing personality, than as an interest worth cultivating. She has ready access to three adults who do that kind of work, at varying levels, professionally but we certainly don't see very much in the way of Thao learning from their non-superhero experience.