Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The Next Generation Of Mutants Take Center Stage In Eve Ewing’s Exceptional X-Men

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From the New Mutants to Generation X, discovering you’re a mutant in the Marvel Universe has never been easy, and in the wake of Krakoa, it’s going to be harder than ever. While the X-Men reintegrate into society after the fall of their mutant nation, mutants around the world still need protection, community, and guidance. In Eve L. Ewing and Carmen Carnero’s Exceptional X-Men, a group of young mutants will luckily be trained by two of the greatest teachers in X-Men history—Kitty Pryde and Emma Frost! Today, fans can see all of the covers for the debut issue!

Among the new covers are exciting shots of the core cast by artists Joelle Jones, Elizabeth Torque, and Rose Besch; the first in a series of character spotlights by Luciano Vecchio; and a Foil Variant Cover by Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe. Also available is the final part of Scott Koblish’s epic Wraparound Connecting Variant Cover, a Godzilla Variant Cover by Leinil Francis Yu, and a logo variant cover.

Exceptional X-Men will be the final flagship X-Title to launch in the upcoming From the Ashes era. The series will introduce three all-new mutants who turn to Kitty and Emma for help with their emerging gifts: the metallic and whip-wielding Bronze, the emotion-stirring Axo, and the stealth-skilled fighter Melee! Under Kitty and Emma’s tutelage, they’ll learn not just how to survive—but to thrive! But Kitty and Emma haven’t always seen eye-to-eye, and they’ll also have lessons to teach each other, as they take up the call once more—for the children! Last week we got a small glimpse at these new heroes with character bios released by Marvel.

On what makes the book “exceptional,” Ewing said, “Well, those who know that I was a poet long before becoming a comics creator will appreciate that Exceptional X-Men, in a world full of X-adjectives, simply sounds really good. But right now, they are exceptional in that they don’t carry a lot of the same history on their shoulders as the main characters in our other titles. For better or worse, they have no ties to Krakoa or broader team politics or the previous era of mutantdom. They’re just a group of awkward kids in the Midwest trying to figure out their abilities, like generations of young mutants before them.”

Check out all the covers and preorder Exceptional X-Men #1 at your local comic shop today.

EXCEPTIONAL X-MEN #1 – 75960620921700111

Written by EVE L. EWING

Art and Cover by CARMEN CARNERO

Foil Variant Cover by EDGE

Variant Cover by JOELLE JONES

Variant Cover by ELIZABETH TORQUE

Bronze Variant Cover by DAVID BALDEÓN

Bronze Virgin Variant Cover by DAVID BALDEÓN

Variant Cover by ROSE BESCH
Virgin Variant Cover by ROSE BESCH

Wraparound Connecting Cover by SCOTT KOBLISH

Godzilla Variant Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
Logo Variant Cover

On Sale 9/4

Images via Marvel Comics

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