If Gerry Dugan wanted to write Logan, why didn't he just USE Logan?

I'm getting sick of writers turning Laura into just Logan with boobs. She hasn't had her own personality on a team book in YEARS. The only thing missing here was a few "Bubs" for good measure.

I miss stoic, laconic, deliberate, reserved, and introverted Laura. I don't know who this growly and snarling person is, but it's NOT her. more

Overall it's a fine issue. The art is good, it's fast-paced, and the characters are well-written. Unfortunately not only is this arc too much like other recent stories (specifically Four Sisters from All-New Wolverine) the plotting was also rather predictable.

Let's Fridge a disabled chick, and gratuitously kill off a WoC who DOESN'T EVEN GET TO DIE ON-PANEL, and you wouldn't know the corpse was hers if someone didn't explicitly identify her.

It's bad enough Editorial won't let the NXM grow up because it ages the "classic" cast too much, but to then turn around and kill them off in such a tonedeaf manner for shock value is frankly insulting.

Too much reliance on nostalgia. Too many characters written badly out of character. Too much plot that's plopped down preassembled and with no build-up. And worse still, we're back to yet ANOTHER Mutant Extinction plot so soon after IvX (and that's not even getting into the Age of Apocalypse rehash).

As always a very strong reading. I really love Gaby. I have only a part I don't fully understand.
The part who seem to be a flashfoward. Maybe link to what Old Man Logan tell to Laura.
I find it originality in this story with a lot of thing already seen in a Laura Story.
But cloning and Laura are tied up and work well. I wonder how of Peter & Wolvy have more clone now ^^

Cover - I take the Imperal guard variant. Not related and maybe not as good as it could have been. Something is off. 1/2
Writing - It was a very good writing even if the flashforward is weird. 2.5/3
Arts - I really love how he draw Gabby and the background. The rest I'm more mixed about it. Sometime the character look like frozen and too rigid. 2.5/3
Feeling - Still my favorite ongoing. 2/2 more

An overall solid issue, I just wish it wasn't treading ground that was already explored so recently. Not only are we dealing with more X-23 clones a mere 3 years after Gabby, Zelda, and Bellona were introduced, but it turns out the plot is being driven by the same villain!

There's also a small retcon to Laura's background that ties All-New Wolverine much more closely to Innocence Lost, and helps to explain how Alchemax got hold of Laura's genetic material in the first place. However I'm concerned that Mariko Tamaki is confusing (or conflating)Alchemax from ANW for (or with) the Facility, especially given Laura's remarks in the previous issue that Alchemax created HER as well, not just The Sisters.

So I had to knock some points off for the repetition and the continuity, both of which have become epidemic with Marvel books the past few years.

Overall I think the best thing the story does is to set up conflict between Laura and Gabby, which is something we haven't really had since way back in issue 7. more

It's a breather issue between two heavy arcs. The art is a step back from Cabal, though served the inherent silliness of the story well.

If there's a weakness, it's that while the idea of Gabby interacting at school with normal kids her age and Laura herself being in a teacher's role is an interesting one, Tamaki never really gives it the thorough exploration it deserves. Rather than being an examination of Laura and Gabby through the lens of mundane life that we take for granted, the entire premise exists solely to service the plot. more

Weapon Hex #1 is basically X-23: Innocence Lost condensed into one issue, with Laura gaining Wanda's magic powers. This addition really didn't change all that much and the story didn't really cover any ground X-23's main 'verse origin story didn't already. If anything, shortening the story the way they did blunted the emotional impact of Innocence Lost, which is a shame because the original story could bring grown men to tears.

The twist at the end was teased so subtly early on it's likely you'll have forgotten about it, yet it becomes quite obvious a direction to take in hindsight. more

Great issue. Too much Warren, but not enough to take away from the rest.

Hopeless tries to save the godawful Wolverine/Angel romance, and fails miserably at it. Not only does he fail to provide a workable explanation for her OOC behavior thus far this series, but what he DOES give just revisits plot points that were resolved by Liu a long time ago.

The "understanding" that Laura and Warren reach also rings hollow, and if this were a real-life relationship Warren's behavior would be recognized as outright abusive.

The one bright spot is the interaction between Scott and Laura. Unfortunately, it just serves to highlight how much better chemistry these two have, and that this would have provided a far more genuine and natural relationship. more

I really enjoyed this issue. The future story arc looks interesting and everything was paced really well. Gabby as the future Wolverine looked really great and I wouldn't mind exploring that in it's own book. This was a great issue for me and Laura's mission is already off the an action packed start and I liked the ending. Looking forward to the reveal next month. My big ask is that Tom Taylor give Laura true costume and code name before the next book begins. I liked her current costume just fine and see no reason why that can't continue into the X-23 series. It makes little since to regress Laura to the old outfit and name when she has grown so much.

We will see but I am riding this out till the end. more

Twenty pages where nothing happens. The first half of this book is wasted on Gentle, an obscure character that nobody cares about. The second half is spent preparing for an unnecessarily elaborate heist which is then mostly skipped over. The closest thing to action in this book is when Nightcrawler teleports the team onto the transport plane, once again ignoring 40+ year old rules about how Nightcrawler's powers work.

As I recall from Grant Morrison's New X-Men, Cassandra Nova was motivated to kill mutants by a desire for revenge against her brother Professor Xavier. Now that Xavier is dead (sort of) Taylor claims that Nova wants to kill all mutants because, well ..., she's afraid of mutants? None of this makes sense.

Honey Badger is still awful, and she's dragging the once great X-23 down with her. more

My big question remains why Laura would take back the X-23 name after so directly rejecting it in the last book. It's not by any means a flaw of the book itself, but it's definitely an issue we're seeing within Marvel of hammering the Reset Button so liberally. Combined with the fact we never got to see the moment Laura decided to become Wolverine, it only emphasizes the sense that her stint was simply filler, and that they never intended to take her seriously in the role. more

I couldn't help but be underwhelmed by the end of All-New Wolverine. Its final arc began with a lot of promise, but part three of Old Woman Laura just falls flat for me. Maybe because I just didn't want the book to end it feels unsatisfying, but it was also quite anti-climactic.

There's something of a disconnect here, since the book ends in an AU, rather than tying back in to the present day. As cliche as the All Just A Dream ending might be, I almost wonder if it could have been interesting to see Laura awaken back in the present day, and reflecting on things that might be (plus I was hoping for a "Patrick Duffy in the Shower" final panel for Laura and Hellion to pay off the renewed relationship hinted at in part one).

I don't think it helps that it seems like there should have been at least one port part to the story. It all wraps up much too quickly, and a lot of the interesting premise of the alternate future timeline went unused. We don't get nearly enough of the reunion between Laura, Gabby, and Bellona, and I also don't think Taylor cut loose with this scenario as much as he could have. Everything ends too safely and softly, rather than doubling down on a bittersweet finale that the AU setting ought to have facilitated. It hearkens back to an ongoing criticism of ANW, that Taylor has made things too "easy" for Laura in an effort to spare her the sort of trauma past writers like KYost and Bendis inflicted on her.

It's still a solid book — the art and overall writing are still top-notch — but nonetheless something of a let down for one of the best series Marvel has been publishing these past three years. more

Where's Armor? Laura? Amiko? Kurt? They don't get an invite to Logan's "real" funeral, but Doop and Firestar do? And while the series at least explains Jean's nonsensical appearance in Legacy #1, it doesn't change the fact her presence has no impact whatsoever.

The effort to make this a Marvel-wide thing is done hamfistedly at best. Did Kitty honestly not have someone within the X-sphere who would have been a better investigator than Daredevil?

All-in-all it's just a $6 ad for the FOUR upcoming miniseries. more

Holy crap do you guys have garbage taste.

Wow this is garbage. Jean isn't nearly as hot as she should be. X-23 isn't as dark as she should be. Nightcrawler has no personality. Come to think of it, none of these characters seem to have any personality with the possible exception of the newly introduced Trinary. Honey Badger is an incredibly worthless character. Also, the art sucks.

There seems to be a new mandate for the X-Men books that they are only allowed to fight with humans. They need to go back to fighting evil mutants. more

Two words that tells you all you need to know about the sheer awesomemess of this issue: ZOMBIE. SLOTH.