This second issue is my jumping off point for this title. Compared with groups of burgeoning mutants rom New Mutants to Young X-Men to Generation Hope, the young mutants in this book feel like the dullest and most caricature-ish batch to date. With an almost infinite number of existing teenage mutants to pick from, creating yet more needlessly feels derivative—especially with how flat this assortment is. As much as I love Kate Pryde and Emma Frost, this book feels too juvenile and too played-out to retain its spot in my pull list. more

Can we get some X stories this decade that aren't victim culture vehicles. Fighting bigotry has a big place in X-men of course but it feels like this has become the easy go-to (not to mention often blown out of proportion) overused trope we see too much and this series seems to be making it the central theme. Just too much too often and it gets stale. I guess this is supposed to be Shadowcat, I refuse to call her Kate, being the reluctant, modern day, bartender prof X helping mutant kids but it's marketed as a team book with the X-men name. This feels like a bad CW version of a New Mutants book. I think this title is an argument for way too many X books released at the beginning of from the ashes. So far the emotion\empath color changing mutant is the only thing I kinda like. more