#prity

[luke-naberrie]

star wars + text posts [2/?]

[rei-ismyname]

EXCEPTIONAL X-MEN #3 FTA

After a pretty disappointing week of X-Men comics it's a delight to read and analyse Eve Ewing's Exceptional X-Men. The repeated issues I have with the other titles are just not present here and after three consistent bangers Ewing and co have my trust.

Emma is right

We pick up exactly where issue #2 left off, and this opening scene of all the main characters makes me realise how tightly the execution is. We know where each of them is at and (at least broadly what they want) - we're getting to know the kids organically. Where the other two books feel like action figures isolated from each other for no good reason, Kate Pryde's need to get away from the X-Men was established before the title even began. She just wants a normal life, to date girls and process her trauma. Emma Frost showing up to answer the call she refused throws her off immediately and they briefly scrap. The kids aren't just saying nothing because they didn't get a script today (hi Jubilee) - they're frozen by Emma. It's a small thing, but it's purposeful and flows elegantly.

Priti, Kate's housemate/friend from school, breaks up the fight for the most relatable reason - she doesn't want to lose the security deposit. Perhaps a sign that Kate doesn't fit into the 'norma'l world as much as she wants...or Emma just really knows how to push her buttons. I think Emma is hurting too, though she hides it under her usual scene-stealing exterior. I can't wait for more of their dynamic. Yeah, they'll almost certainly figure out a working relationship but their pain isn't being dismissed either. I feel like the pair are a successful version of what Gail Simone is doing with Rogue.

They stop fighting and have a little tea party, then Axo asks the question I'd been dreading the answer to - 'do you trust Emma or not?' Kate grew up being terrified of Emma with good reason and never let her forget why she did not trust her. Emma spent decades earning that trust and proving herself a hero, leader and teacher - but the First Krakoan Age had them grow closer than ever before. They worked well together and became friends, they were a force for good on Krakoa (mostly.) It's a shame that this is a metric, but two thumbs up for not rolling any of that back. These feel like the members of the resistance who were there for each other in Fall of X. Kate herself is regressing a little, but it's believable as a trauma response.

Kate doesn't want to train young mutants and Emma does. Prito even has a space they can use and the kids are keen! Everyone is happy then, right? Well, I think that's going to be the core tension for a while. Everyone except Kate wants this, but I think Kate needs this.

This 'getting to know you' circle does a lot of work in centering the young mutants, reminding us they're here to stay while showing us who they are and the beginning of their social dynamic. I haven't been a teen for a long time but their voices sound authentic, even to the point of highlighting that Bronze/Trista is a bit younger than the other two.

Agreed, do not read the comments.

They want to be doing this! One of the most challenging parts of being a teen is navigating peer groups. Solidarity in experiencing the same kind of otherness plus scary body changes is healthy, and it's lovely to chalk up a W despite the fact that 'people hate us.'

This issue also asks the question Rogue did in Uncanny #1, but as organic dialectic. It introduces the tension between self defense and being a superhero when you have powers - the difference between Emma and Kate externalised. Kate is excited despite herself until Emma shows up with costumes, and I think she's right to push back or at least be wary. But is this about her or the kids? It's not the most admirable contradiction but it's very human. They're both right that the old ways were flawed and they need to try something new.

Is she talking about Colossus? MF is not that gentle. Their costumes look amazing.

Unsurprisingly, Emma and Kate are a great team. There's tension underneath there, but they wouldn't be doing this if their friendship didn't run deep. New kids in relaunches past have often had their powers explained by Cerebro or a nosy telepath. Learning about it from their mouths as they're starting to use them in a controlled environment achieves the wiki entry, shows them learning to use them, and importantly gives us more of their personality.

Emma conjures up some Brood-like baddies and everyone freaks out but some growth is evident. It's Axo that figures out they're not real. Kate is not impressed. I doubt they'll throw down, but her sending the kids away feels like an extreme reaction. Good, she's got shit to say and hurts that need to be spoken. The kids don't leave, but we're left with all this tension in the air to be resolved next issue.

I LOVE that the three kids cuddle/huddle in the background.

Who better to break the ice (sorry) than Bobby Drake? Having him just fly in the window and cooling down the tension (sorry again) could feel random and silly but it works. These two have a lot of history and it makes sense that he'd seek her out. Kate has been turning her back on anyone X-related - will she freeze Bobby out too? The kids are awed by him and it's half the Marauders back together, so I don't think he'll get the cold shoulder.

I feel very confident in calling Exceptional X-Men the best X-Men book in From The Ashes. It's got an honesty and sincerity to it while remixing the hits of first arcs and adding plenty of new. The art style is colourful and emotive which adds so much to a book taking people's feelings seriously. If you pick up nothing else, this is the one.

[deam-mime]

Please please please watch transformers one

[sprnklersplashes]

I am going to say one more thing on this topic and then I am done and that is that the attacker has been confirmed as being of Rwandan descent and that the British media and the British public are having a field day with it. They when his race was still unknown but they are going even further with it now that it is confirmed.

Do not let them. This country is home to a bunch of racist, xenophobic freaks a lot of whom are in the government who will do anything to push their agenda. Including hijacking a tragedy before the girls are even buried.

Protect your non-white friends, family and community members and call this shit out when you see it.

[keekity]

scientist + her gf + the rat kid they found in a crater

[comicwaren]

From Exceptional X-Men #001

Art by Carmen Carnero and Nolan Woodard

Written by Eve L. Ewing

[co2016]

DAY 13: home video from 2010 that you found while getting rid of memories of him

[possiblyunhinged]

Priti Patel is a fucking sad excuse for a human being. She's stoked cultural wars for the past few years with no regard for the effects of what could happen. When shit like this happens, she then pops up to make empty public statements condemning said effects of YEARS of divisive, racist sentiments that her party push at every opportunity in a bid to garner support.

The issue isn't the amount of power the police have over protestors; it's years of racist rhetoric that the Tory party have pushed out and has been supported by nazi rags like The Daily Mail. It's social media's irresponsible and continual platforming of the likes of Tommy Robinson and Andrew Tate, where their misinformation is NEVER effectively challenged. The truth doesn't matter to racists as much as it does to transphobes. Their lives are so fucking empty and absent of love that they need to fill it with hate just to feel something.

The lack of self-awareness from the right of the Tory party is dazzling.

[lovecatsys]

SCREAMING EVEN LOUDER

[farsight-the-char]

Kitty Pryde is going through it.

Exceptional X-men 4

[changing-my-username]

Priti Patel turns the comments off on all of her Twitter posts. How can she be trusted to be leader of the opposition, when she's too afraid of people holding her to account on social media?

[aromaterra]

So yesterday I doodled a Pritti and colored it with the pastel Crayola crayons. I decided to draw a "Ke$ha" Jigglypuff. The locks of hair on it are taken from Ke$ha's Warrior Album Art Cover. Also because I named my Jigglypuff Ke$ha in Pokemon Violet.

[deathdefyinglifeleaps]

Priti’s right and she should say it.

Exceptional X-Men (2024) #3

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

[ALT Text: Supreme court rejects Rishi Sunak’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda

Judges uphold appeal court ruling over risk to deported refugees and deals blow to PM’s ‘stop the boats’ strategy]

how many times does this policy have to be blocked on account of it abusing human rights laws before the tories finally fucking drop it? [x]

[roguestorm]

KITTY!!!!!!! kitty kitty kitty kitty kitty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm so tickled by how recognizable exceptional xmen's kitty is to me as an aimless twentysomething living in the city. i know that girl

KITTY!!! I liked the joke about like how Kitty and Priti used to think being roommates would be like Laverne and Shirley. But then you grow up and having a roommate is just… having a roommate. Also the part about how Kitty was going to go see a band that was reuniting as cheap nostalgia bait like lol 😆 that twenty something life