X-23 was never a character I expected to like. Despite going through a phase in my youth where I had enough Wolverine paraphernalia in my room to scare off a German exchange student (true story), Wolverine isn't at the top of my list of all time favorite superheroes. I'm also not a huge fan of gimmick characters for the most part, so Wolverine + girl parts = new character was not an equation I thought would produce anything I wanted to read. However, as both a reader of comics and someone with girl parts of my own, I usually try to give books with female leads and/or female writers a chance. From the very beginning, Marjorie Liu's X-23 comics surprised me, presenting a character who was so much more than a new twist on Wolverine, and with X-23 #14, Liu continues to give X-23 room to grow beyond her roots. Read Full Review