Marvel Reveals Exceptional X-Men Line Up & Plot Details! 

Mercury, Anole, Hellion, Rockslide, Sway, Petra, Darwin, Vulcan, Slipstream , Lifeguard, Thunderbird, Omerta, Sunpyre, Maggott, Marrow, Dr. Reyes, ect. So many new characters and most them are never built up or given their time to shine. And yet, we keep getting new characters to fall into the same cycle. Since Gambit and Bishop joined the team, it feels like Cannonball, Emma Frost, and X-23, were the only new (old) characters that got a chance to be on the team for longer than 5 minutes.

That last voted x-men at the Fall of X gala, was the most diverse X-Men teams. Shame they never actually used the team fully.

Miss how much jubilee an m disliked each other in gen x. I hope they bring that back.

What the hell? I never knew AEW's Nyla Rose was a writer, and what's even more amazing is that she wrote an X-Men title. Mad respect to Nyla.

Krakoa Forever!!!

Love to see more black & female writers at Marvel even MORE on an X title, considering how often fans love to compare Charles and Magneto to black civil rights leaders and considering all the analogues the X-men share to black marginalized community. Funny tho, with that said, let’s be real they cud give us at least ONE all black&brown Xmen team just once (they have enough chars) if they wanted to, to make up for dozens of all-white Xmen teams, but that’s never gonna happen so I guess I’ll take what I can get 🤷🏿

This was a missed opportunity to bring back Banshee or even Synch in a teaching role. I'm starting to feel like Kate/Kitty is being forced down my throat. Also, what about Hellion, Glob, Match and all of the other forgotten students. And what happened to Darwin? How is the mutant that can survive everything always the one to die??

Stephanie William's thats who I want to see writing Xmen

Extremely excited for the upcoming from the ashes lines, this will be my first time reading X-men on a monthly basis.

I think X-men 97 and the inevitable MCU debut has them moving the books back to classic status quo.

Hi there Blerd Without Fear. I just wanted to say that I recently stumbled upon this new video dealing with The Essential X-Men series and I just you did a wonderful job on it. This is new X-Men series is definitely going to be a very interesting one and I am really looking forward to reading it. I just hope that the writers of this X-Men series or some of the other bring Synch on to a team, just because he was a character that I really enjoyed when I read The Generation X comic series and I have enjoyed what some writers have done with the character recently.

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I like M. She has the same powers as Rogue. She also has telepathy. Will she be the team telepath?

Hey Blerd, I want to thank you though for creating a cool, fun, and interesting platform that is everything a fellow Blerd like myself can come and laugh, vent, and talk about all things comics. What wonderful times we live in where all these heroes are coming too life on the big screen and we can hop online and connect with fellow nerds/blerds all over the world. Good work you are doing here brother.

The thing I’m most curious about this team is if the Emma/Tony relationship will continue. That said top talent book and looking forward to it.

This series might cancel in 12 issue For this series to survive it has to come out strong very strong on their story arc

Art looks nice... but I have some major beef with it. Not sure to blame the artist or Marvel ediotial tho. What I don't like? Simple, after years of X-Men Gold and Krakoa they are back making Kitty look like a friggin' teenager!! She is a grown woman, she should be able to look like it! Instead she's looking same age as the kids they will teach.

I appreciate your in depth coverage of all the new titles! I play the new Marvel Multiverse RPG, so your overviews not only help me decide what books I want to collect but what elements of the books I might want to bring into a game.

I'm just facepalming over the codenames. Melee? Really?

Haven't read any X-titles seriously in a while...your video has piqued my curiosity.

If bronzes power is just to harden her skin I'm DEEEEEPLY disappointed. The thing that annoyed me the most about krakoa was that there were very few never before seen mutant story lines. Especially ones of people with good powers.

Hope you're having a good day

You gotta get Eve L. Ewing on the channel! Also, can't wait for you to cover anything coming out about Uncanny X-Men by Gail Simone. I pre-ordered both that and Exceptional X-Men with my local comic shop!

I'm mainly checking this book out for Eve L Ewing. I trust her

appreciate your voice in the fancom! am looking forward to this one!

This might be the one I start with. Ngl, Emma Frost is my favourite Xmen character. I can’t help but notice certain similarities to some of Emma’s other students. Bronze is Very similar to Mercury. Maybe their fighting styles differ. The emotional based hero? Maybe he’s a less grating Empath. Melee? For some reason, I’m getting a mix of Strong Guy and Monet from her. So the trio would be very much reflecting all 3 of Emma’s big classes; the Hellions, Generation X and Academy X. Could mean that these kids may get issues where former students turn up and help out. Melee could be trained to be an assassin but… could we not? Seems like a recurring beat for a lot of East Asian characters to either be assassins or related to the Yakuza/triad. Heck, even Mall-Rat Jubilee has an aunt who was in the triad. Side note - nice to know the authorial details. Ayala’s New Mutants was just fantastic. Lavalle made Nekra have a glowup so good that she didn’t even need to beat Mandrill and/or grim reaper. I don’t know the ratio of work between her and Steve Orlando but I can’t lie; Giant Sized Proudstar was a very insightful book on a character that characters in story were more fixated on the idea of him than who he was… because they didn’t know him for long. I will say that the line that Xavier and Magneto “made the reservation and called it freedom” did make me laugh because part of me agreed that, to a lot of folks, that’s not an incorrect assumption to make of nations like Genosha, Utopia and Krakoa. Especially for a guy who grew up in a reservation. Great work.

I hate the fact that they don’t use those new characters that they introduced in New X-men… I felt like they were on to something… Dust,Anole,Mercury,Elixir, Icurus, Glob,Bling,Curse even bring Rockslide back they have so many to build off

Glad they're adding Monet to that Louisiana X team. I X Men team based in Louisiana with no Black Mutants would have been 🤨

I am looking forward to how the new characters are going to be handled during the upcoming X-Men storytelling run of each book.

Kitty and Emma’s relationship shifted to friendship during Joss Whedon’s Astonishing X-men. Also, I feel like Melee’s ability, it is is a muscular shift, is a shoutout to Generation X’s Buff

"Her mutant power is kicking ass...that's fine, I'll take it" is crazy!!!!! I mean WTF!!!

I look at Melee and all I can see is Radiant Red in her base form from the Radiant Black comics. I like it. Love the Radiant Black comic and I’m eager to see how this new X-men era goes!

I don't understand why people are mad at Chawls(Charles) for giving up on the Dream. Look at reality. He wasn't the only person to integrate his people into a burning house.

Ooh anyone notice at 11:53 Melee is drawn as if she's transparent/going invisible? Maybe her powers have something to do with density manipulation allowing her to increase her strength/mass for offense & decrease it for stealth. Would make her solid student for Kitty/Kate!

I’ll definitely read this, I love Emma Frost and Kate’s pretty cool too

Art looks amazing. Story premise sounds fun. I look forward to see how this series turns out. We need more fresh stories. I seeing Emma in a teacher role. Her character in the X-Men anime worked really well in that way.

I still see Kate’s name change as more as identity crisis on her end because her real name being used in the Krakoan era ended on a bad note after all of the revelations Charles has brought for the war of ORCHIS, and having to kill humans, will make her feel very hard. She at least knew how the nature of her powers work with Krakoan gates, when every body can go in, she cannot and vice versa. She started optimistic as a Quiet Council member and Red Queen, but it all goes blue from here, for better and worse. Hence, she had to change her name to Kitty for possibly those reasons above. In terms of de-escalation, we went from Kate, to ShadowKat, to Kitty.

Thank you 12:22 😊

All X school books eventually lead to conflicts and challenges with villains. I see a new Empath here. Emma dealt well with the first one. My book is always the book with Emma😀

Axo probably comes from "Axiomatic."

Axo is an empath, like Emma's former Hellions member Empath, able to psionically control the emotions of others. able to sense, read, and manipulate the state of nearby beings, including their emotional state,

Respect

Damn. Eve is cute

Kitty returns to bartending? Here's hoping she returns to an old haunt: the bar we've seen connected to Kitty, The Belles of Hell. Locals knew Kitty was a bartender there and some X-Men would visit it.

Make it a great day

I'm curious about this run. Eve Ewing hasn't done much for me. Her Black Panther run that is already cancelled and dull

I coulda swore that was Hellion! now i feel swindled!😄

I hope the main line Amazing Spider-man series gets a new line up new Writer and artist for Peter going forward.

I say the sentinel story on xmen 97 made me realize it's the xmen vs terminator 🤔

I'm getting burned out on X-titles.. it's been too much to fallow it all in the past 6 months... and gone back to single titles like Hulk, Blade, Thor, Carnage, and Venom because the fall of Krakoa turned into a cash grab. I got a few characters I want to watch.. But I need to build up strength or see an interesting connection like Storm get pulled into Thor's drama, or what becomes of Tony Stark's and Emma Frost marriage.. Though in Storm and Emma.. I really don't need that kind of reason to want to see what is happening to them, since they are both just naturally interesting... They just have examples of ties into other parts of the marvel universe that could draw me back to Mutants, since I'm burned out on Mutant titles.

So Emma has a new empath that's not broken, by his powers.

Know I'm probably in the minority here, but I really enjoyed the romantic tension between Kitty and Emma back when Duggan was writing Marauders. I really hope Ewing brings that back.

Hopefully the give Emma frost some power upgrades

My sister was born blue but it faded as she got older. I was hoping she was a mutant.

I'm not really excited about this one because of the line up. Would like to see some established young mutants to mix in with the new ones? However, I am excited to see a black woman write a core x title. Just seems like they are setting her up to fail.

Hello, I am here to talk about Valiant universe. Another superheroes/villains world having their own comics. It deserves more attention. They have many characters like Bloodshot, Ninjak and others.

Dope. ~_~

Heard Rogues team will have no characters as well. So far none have peeked my interest

I... did not know a Victor Lavalle was black. I'm petty sure I've seen him b4 and just did not register him as a black man 😅

In the 3 so called flagship xbooks, this is the one I'm guessing won't last long.

Maybe space stone used for quantum jump like new rockstar mentioning in fantastic four (2015 which not for everyone but I liked it and looking forward to more content which cool) maybe the space and time stone combined is used for quantum jump/time travel and ...maybe time stone maybe modded to be used casue someone utilized it for immortality maybe the skull queen and the skull queen ....

Yo blerd, you love represention... Any of the new mutants polish, Ukrainan, iranian or anything new represention marvel never done.... I know marvel never done anything iranian super hero since the start of marvel comics... Only Robert E. Howard put in iranic Representation in pop culture. Like mithras.

I'm laughing, because there are some people who've turned blue because of health reasons

I think Jesus (A.S.) had a mother, just no father! 😂

Shout out to Nightcrawler and all the Blue People Yo, listen up, here's the story About a little guy that lives in a blue world And all day and all night and everything he sees is just blue Like him, inside and outside Blue his house with a blue little window And a blue Corvette and everything is blue for him And himself and everybody around 'Cause he ain't got nobody to listen [Chorus] I'm blue, da ba dee da ba di Da ba dee da ba di, da ba dee da ba di Da ba dee da ba di, da ba dee da ba di Da ba dee da ba di, da ba dee da ba di I'm blue, da ba dee da ba di Da ba dee da ba di, da ba dee da ba di Da ba dee da ba di, da ba dee da ba di Da ba dee da ba di, da ba dee da ba di

Doesn’t matter to me…guess I’m just “one of those people”

so, is this an all-girl team or group ?

It's was my mom that introduced me to X-men. She was a big fan of Claremont's run.

Hope youre getting paid for this PR lol

I agree it's great to see a woman of color writing an X-Men title. But I must say that there's something people keep forgetting about with the X-Men. They are a multi cultural team not a race team. Example, the adjective less team is Southern American,Cajun,Germany, Canadian,Asian ,and Moroccan. Exceptional has a Jewish leader, etc. Some things are beyond just race and I believe things will continue on the line of including everyone

There are blue people in the world. I watched a documentary on the phenomenon a few years ago. It’s rare, but widespread enough that it’s a known condition. Many who are afflicted with it are recluses. I was shocked a couple years ago when an elderly man with blue skin came into the restaurant I work at. Such a rare sight, but it was amazing to see it with my own eyes.

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Two of the greatest teachers in X-Men history??? If all the children under your care are unalived can we really say that said teacher did a great job? Never read an X-Men comic &thought to myself, damn Emma Frost sure is a great teacher. Frost is a homewrecker, a succubus, arguably the most manipulative mutant or character in all of Marvel but great teacher or role model never came to mind. I'm so F'in sick of the whole Emma and Kitty friendship, Kitty hates Emma &that's the very best version of their relationship. Them as BFF doesn't work but with Eve actually mentioning how the two don't get along gives me some hope for the book but if she tries to make them BFFs then I'm out

Hmmm... Moderate pass. But I might give the first issue a try. *Edit: purely because I cannot 🤬 stand Kitty. The weird turn from school headmaster to drunken, tattooed pirate made me cringe.*

Dont do my dawg nightcrawler dirty he does count

Kentucky blue people? While white born blue

Meh.

This or NYX will the 1st new x book to be canceled

sounds meh

Not interested in this book at all

no one in a wheelchair has ever written Professor x.

If that's who I think it is writing Exceptional X-Men not expecting anything good, we'll see but definitely won't actually spend 💰 to find out!😂 Not expecting much more from the others but most likely much better content without question!

Rip... to wolfsbane warpath tbird chamber hellion dust gentile boomer moonstar multiple man phantomex banshee etc ..GREAT PPL apparently all dead to these writers ....dam shame....but the girls will be back...the bros no way

Yawn

All i see is more rubbish that I can IMMEDIATELY ignore. 🚮🚮🚮

Mr lgbtq whatever says GO HUG YOUR MOTHER ..cool .. except leszbo don't become mothers...not for real...and the men adopt children who don't get the joy of mom ..which is so sad...yup Backwards living hurts everyone....I digress this x team looks the weakest

Damn bro. We don't need any DEI forced into comics anymore. It's already killing our beloved comic universe. I, a mixed race person, who has experienced more racism from both black and white people (my ethnic origins), do NOT care about who is writing the stories, as long as they're good. I am surprised to really hear this man. Been following you for a long time and heard bits here and there, but even you have to agree the BEST person for the job should write the stories. It doesn't matter if they have skin in the game, because from my life experiences, having skin in the game means nada, but makes you more of a target from the small minded vocal minority spewing their hypocrisy. As for Exceptional X-men, I'm interested because they are creating NEW mutants instead of changing old ones we love. Should be a fun read. . Keep up the good work, and, imo, you can have your opinion on people of color in positions to write stories, but unless they're the best for the job, I don't agree. Well, until Cecilia Reyes and Maggott get their own long overdue, we'll deserved spotlight story, Make Mine Marvel