Looks like Kurt is more careful than Spidey with his comics, but I feel like he puts them back in the bags upside down.

I don't know if they've done as many lately, but I feel like I bought a bunch of variant covers at the start of this series. I usually don't, but c'mon. From 2024, Uncanny X-Men #3 (LEG #703) "Red Wave, part 3: the Inside Man" Written by Gail Simone, art by David Marquez. Variant cover by Mahmud Asrar.

This was early in Simone's run, and we get to know the new mutant kids a bit: there's also a mention of the prophecy, that one of them could be the last mutant; I'm not sure that's come up recently. The kids all have horribly sad stories, which is why Rogue is gung-ho to not only protect them, but give them a home. She gets Nightcrawler, for a bit of outdoors Danger Room tag with them; and Kurt gets surprised by the 'manga kid,' as Logan calls him: Deathdream. Still, charitable as always, Kurt feels like the kids have good hearts...even the ones literally without them!

Rogue's disappointed Logan doesn't stick around to learn the kids' names--he probably knows, he just acts like he doesn't--but he has to take off, I think for his own new book, as seen on the cover here! But, he's not done, as later here he throws down with new villain, Sarah Gaunt. She's stalking the kids, and we don't know much about her yet, except that she has some kind of history with Charles Xavier.

Uncanny is one of like three Marvel titles I'm reading now, and this run has been pretty good...but has it been everything I want in an X-book? Of course it hasn't met my completely arbitrary and unfair expectations. A recent issue finds the kids living out a What If--?! style scenario, with them as the first class of New Mutants; but I wonder if these kids will have any staying power. Who was the last mutant kid to catch on any...Glob Herman? Yeesh. (That and I don't like Kurt's girlfriend in this series; feels like we've been told how great she is, but we haven't really seen it?)