Marvel EMBARRASSMENT: Exceptional X-Men #1 Is The WORST Comic I've EVER READ 

Notice how all these SJW comics are always like this? Characters sit around talking about their feelings, having emotional breakdowns, talking about their sexualities and romances. It's all they know how to write.

What always kills me with these modern-day "homework" writers is that they are so desperate to tell their own fanfics than actually tell stories with decades-old characters. I still remember when Kitty PHASED A GIANT BULLET THROUGH THE EARTH to save humanity. But OF COURSE in the modern day she's a whining bartender saving pointless new characters(instead of using the many already created mutants in comic limbo). Thank you for the excellent review, Mr. JDA.

The "heroes" on the front don't look strong, courageous, steadfast, or valiant. They look smug, egotistical, and like I'm about to get a lecture about checking my privilege. I can ABSOLUTELY judge a book by it's cover.

That cover alone screams DON'T READ ME I'M WOKE AF FILLED WITH GIRL BOSS NONSENSE!!!! Avoid at all cost! 🤣🤣🤣

Number one issue where nothing happens!

I told you what was the point. Marvel=garbage. Toilet paper has a use. Marvel Comics, nope. Maybe, no if they made the Marvel Comic on toilet paper then one would get mad on their thrown. Don't want that.

WHAT?! Kitty Pryde is swinging for the wrong team now? The worthless weird "people" are...worthless.....and weird.

They canceled all the men in X-Men 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

While the art doesn't look terrible, the story sounds super dull. A comic titled "Exceptional X-Men" implies, well, exceptionalism, and it doesn't look like this has that. There's nothing that screams X-Men to me. I would have expected at least one epic fight scene in the first book of a new series; gives the reader a reason to pick up the second issue. And the cover, while not badly drawn, just doesn't entice someone to pick it up. There's no there there, so this is a pass for me.

The Modern Audience can’t stop catching Ls

Read this online. Dumpster fire of a comic that had me shaking my head. In 1988 When Excalibur #1 came out we got Kitty Pryde as the center of a story with her and the team taking on Warwolves. In 2024 with Exceptional X-Mess We get a story about her complaining about getting stood up on a date. What is this Archie? What happened to superhero comics with action and adventure?

For a moment I thought JDA was talking about that New Warriors comic book by the Kibblesmith guy. It's shocking that anything could be worse than that one.

Krakoa ruined the X-Men forever to me. No way I 'll read a new X-Men book again. Fall of X turned Kitty Pryde in a brutal murderer and see her leading a normal life without any consequences for your past actions is awful.

Xmen with no men 🧐

What happened to Kitty's curly hair? Just say "NO" to straight hair privilege!

By the sounds of it we haven't gotten to anything yet 🙄 literally nothing happened. There was no story...

X men rest in peace 1963-2024 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦹‍♂️🦹‍♀️.

How much longer can this nonsense go on?

Why would Kitty Pryde be a bar tender? Wasn't she heavily interested in computer technology? The members of the X-Men teams had all been students. Each of them had some kind of real world profession. How did Kitty Pryde end up being a bar tender?

Another terrible reboot comic. They going blame fan again.

Just like how Disney Channel wanted all their programing to be targeted to teenage girls.

Some of the characters in this book will at least "identify" as men.

No wonder kids wont get into comics. 1. Too expensive 2. Trash stories. Only 35yr olds and older collect and buy comics. Comics are done for.

WOW! This is the kind of stuff getting published nowadays?! Disney pulling the plug on that Gaiman guy's movie had NOTHING to do with whatever problem that Gaiman guy seems to be having.

Honestly, From the Ashes feels like a monkey's paw for longtime X-Men fans. "I wish Krakoa X-Men would finally be over!" "Granted, but X-Men is still going to be just as bad and lame as before." I suppose you can take the mutants out of Krakoa, but you can't take the Krakoa out of the mutants.

That Kitty is having an emotional breakdown being a bartender is ridiculous. She's OWNED a bar before. Also continued reminder that she committed actual war crimes during the Krakoa period.

Art is just awful and every SJW writer puts there own life insecurities, mental instability and hopelessness into all there characters. Its why these "Stories" go no where and are vapid waste of time.

How is it that Chris Claremont could focus on female characters and it was compelling? Even for male readers! 🤦🏻 At least the art is nice.

Opening: Splash page of the team in the danger room which is malfunctioning. Kitty is the only one who can phase out, which she does but finds out that the mansion is under attack and has to have a solo adventure battling the forces who are trying to take over the mansion. Go!

So first they make ice man gay and now kitty got dumped and is lezzing out?

It’s not even a teenage girl’s brand. A teenage girl’s brand would not have girls be mean all the time and make the story engaging at the very least.

ICEMAN joins Exceptional X-men, as if 4 gays on the team were not enough...

I never knew Kitty was one of them. Just like Batman and Green Lantern. Mind blown.

So, that´s the "X-Men" and comics of today!?! Dude. a further prove that I was right to quitt Marvel/ Spiderman nine years ago: I don´t regret it and as I saw these development of the "X-Men" I´m sure I haven´t lost anything of value 😆😆😆. Seems like EVERY SINGLE Marvel comic has changed in the predictable and expected ways we thought would happen years ago! Pathetic!

5:28 - bro, “like the virtue signal”? She’s literally been drawn with that necklace since her first appearance. I don’t care for this comic’s obvious stupid content, but this one thing has been well established for decades and normal for this character.

I think Shadowcat allready worked as (a way cooler!) bartender 🤔, ... during a rebel-phase away from X-Men (late Claremont I believe, on his way out.😅)... That said Kitty is/was a total tech/PC geek! Should't she find better work? 😂 (I guess the writter has no... experience in that environment...😝)

Haven't bought an X-MEN book since early noughties. I'd get angry reading this and I'm past getting angry.

I passed on it , it’s not worth the ink it’s printed with! Don’t waste your time on it!

Yes, it is obvious that Marvel is going to be very subtle about the plan and goal. We should not tempt fate. We should not allow them an opportunity to warp our minds. Walk away and never look back.

Marvel should bring back the Stan Lee Marvel way of writing hack: Get the artists to plot/layout a story with a dynamic flow. And just let these "writers" fill in the words. Regardless of whatever crap dialogue they put in there, at least you still get good visuals.

Who asks for this?!? Ohhh, for modern reader

Marvel and DC have Tons of Heroes with Great Potential But They can Not Use Them The Good and Samrt way.

I call they|them ‘ITS’

Their modern audience doesn’t exist that’s why their sales have been going down for years the more they push this agenda the more fans have stopped reading their comics.They threat fans like were absolute morons fifty years kitty pride has been in love with Peter Rasputin like iceman with Polaris and other women and then bing their gay marvel already had gay heroes why not promote them or write new characters. we all know the answer shock value and no talented creators just activists who write garbage

0:26 The @its not for you” statement would be ok if EVERYTHING these people make wasn’t for us.

I say again and again that Marvel had no reason to drop Krakoa so soon. That was a concept to be worked for years. Ok, some things needed to be adjusted and shaken up here and there, but overall the story had MUCH potential that went to the sewers. If they had stuck to Krakoa, there wouldn't be the need of this nostalgia-driven new era so soon. Because it's such a huge drift from the depth of Krakoa to the superficiality of a "X-Men 97" inspired book like Uncanny X-Men, that's it feels like two different universes. In 5 years, the characters had more development and growth than they had in decades. Then, it's all over, and we're back again to same old same old. Been there, done that, seen it all. Except that THIS time I'm NOT buying anything X-related any more!

If we tutn X-Men and stuff into ternage girl brands, the lads reading them will pivot their lives to hangung out with girls, going to the gym, and being normal.

Did the people who actually made this issue even talked to teenage girls before?

Wow, I think you've read like 4 comics that are worst ever lately. They just keep getting worse!

yeah Kitty monologing (is it?) weirded me out

Accept-homosexual X-Men

7:42 there's a word missing some vowels. 😅

The Hidden Emperor sucks.

7:54 what is that Dave on that what ever it supposed to be?

There’s enough people that don’t like it that poor Zack has to love it to prove you all wrong.😂

9:02 so cringe that is poisonous.

6:03 I'm looking at that panel on the left and wondering why her shoulder is in the middle of her chest or back. 😂 Drawn by someone who complains about "unnatural" female poses, no doubt.

I picked up the foil cover simply just because emma frost is on the front. I have no plans to read it What ever happen to writing where you open eith something explosive and then build up. Sound like there is no build up so no readers or what readers it may get will return

If you hate action, love identity politics, want to read about the feelings of lesbian they/them characters, this issue is for you. I read this in shock and will not read another issue from this crap series.

9:12 ok this might actually be the worst comic book you ever read.

Kitty Pryde went from genius badass to AOC...how compelling...Marvel has gone from What If? to What Ever.....

I find it hard to believe this is worse than some of the old Image comics I own (grim dark Spawn nonsense, Jim Lee nothing WildCats, big dumb Pitt and his little friend, a boy, Youngblood just being Youngblood).

Am suprised they didnt change the x man name to the x group or the its

Whateverzies you guys. This is what Stan always had in mind for the X'ies. If you were real fans you'd know that! Pfft. "LOL JK!" 🥴

I didn't realise this was a JDA video. Eric July needs to: Guve this up. File for bankruptcy. And go and live in a tent.

For somebody who dunks on Zack, you sound just like him in his early days on RU-vid

"X-men is obviously a male-centric property" buddy have you read the claremont run (I know you have - come on EDIT: actually upon watching this whole video it seems like you pick out things Claremont did and blame Ewing???? lmaoo what)

It's a shame, looks like they wasted some good art on this comic.

bring back Krakoa at least they were some good books

Lol

They probably make the black people be the ones that are racist because a lot of people would cry about “white man bad” like most of these reaction channels do. I was surprised I liked this issue. I’ve never read the character and thought it was a good introduction. Characters just being heroic and not having internal struggles is uninteresting, so showing her having an internal struggle made it interesting to me. The book only focusing on her and not being a team book was a disappointment, but it didn’t make the book worse to me, just seems like they’ll be building up to the team.

Is the concept of a slice of life story after Krakoa too much for you to understand?

There's no need to be hyperbolic, it was just an OK story. But it doesn't really offer anything new or exciting (even for an oversized first issue, you could summarize the plot with a sentence) The cover and description are practically lies if you are expecting a superhero book filled with action and excitement. (There wasn't even a real antagonist introduced besides general basic Mutant racists)

I enjoyed it. Read it twice.

They're probably right that this isn't for me. I wish to read or watch a positive review from someone who it's for. Uncanny X-men is the best of the 3 for me. 1. Uncanny 2. X-men 3. Exceptional

Wow…you really don’t seem to understand the xmen’s history at all or what makes up the classic stories. Claremont’s era was popular for the character-driven stories and how the character’s motivation is at the center of all great plots (dark phoenix, inferno). The xmen is a soap opera; that’s what distinguishes it from “your classic superhero comic.” Ewing is quite literally doing what claremont did to make xmen the book that it is and distinguish it from things like the avengers. She’s establishing kitty’s mental state (and you’ll remember thought bubbles were quite verbose in the classic xmen days; ex. madelyn pryor’s in inferno), worldbuilding life after krakoa, and building up suspense. It’s…good writing. Literally look at how other xmen storylines start over the 60 years of publication history, and you’ll see that they don’t often center around a big superpowered fight. It’s classically a comic about IDENTITY. I’m really sorry that you haven’t been able to read enough xmen (or haven’t understood the books) from the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, or the 20s to see that it’s the most classic xmen trope to be about WHO the characters are rather than what action sequence is. Ewing is letting us into Kitty’s inner world as she discovers who she is and what she is going to do after krakoa. Separately, Kitty’s Jewish identity is as central to her role in storylines as Colossus being from the Soviet Union or Storm being from Kenya. It appears you are just, sadly, uncomfortable reading about or seeing identities to which you do not relate….The reason xmen fans feel like they know the characters inside and out is because of the emphasis on their identities that contribute to their experience as a marginalized group. If, as it seems, you think comics that focus on identity are terrible, you should not read xmen. It’s totally okay not to like something, but it is just incorrect to say that this book isn’t reminiscent of the way classic xmen books almost always start.

0:43 “X-Men is obviously a male centric property?” Disagree bud. Think I’m done with your videos. I don’t think comics need to be a big vessel for change or virtue signal, but you started this off being pretty passively bigoted in your tone with your snarky little “I don’t want to assume” comment. Why don’t you tell us about the book and THEN provide some commentary?

Still better than your crap.