See what the X-Men would look like as their cool Manga selves~

Many of our longest-lasting pop culture characters owe a large part of their success to their malleability, their retention of what makes them special in the face of regular re-invention in forms that run the gamut from the inspired to the totally lame~

The X-Men are of course no X-eption, an attribute that leads us to today's case in point, X-Men Misfits #1 (Del Rey Manga Original, $12.99). Written by Kainaq Telgemeir and Dave Roman, and drawn by Anzu, it presents a manga version of Marvel's mutants so removed from the world of cataclysmic battles for the fate of the world than Professor Xavier can only chuckle paternally when new student Kitty Pryde brings up the word "superhero" in his presence~

This is an X-Men almost entirely concerned with the social politics of Xavier's school, where the Hellfire Club is the clique dominated by all the popular kids, and Kitty's greatest concern is not fighting Magneto (who happens to be one of the "hot" teachers), but deciding among several possible candidates for boyfriend~

via : comicmix