It might just be a Marvel thing. Clearly Duggan knows how to write well but I imagine the heads or editors said, "You have to have more representation in your book! Use that lady Wolverine, she'll sell."
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If there was a weakness to this issue it's that the story needed another issue to breathe. I'd have liked to see the illusion play out longer past the proposal, maybe actually get to see Laura having a family and growing older, with little bits and pieces of the illusion breaking down over time. It would have given her final realization it was all in her head more of an impact.
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Laura Kinney: Wolverine #7
HAPPINESS IS AN ADAMANTIUM CLAW!
LAURA has the love of her life in JULIAN KELLER. Can they put WOLVERINE and HELLION behind them, or is the perfect life always out of reach? What BETRAYAL will sever Laura's trust in LOGAN? Find out in this special legacy #75 issue of Laura's solo series!
Rated T+
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
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X-Men #1
THESE X-MEN ARE... FEARLESS!
The heroes of Krakoa are here to save the planet! Things might be complicated between the nation of Krakoa and the rest of the world, but to the X-MEN, things are simple - you do what's right, you protect those who need protecting and you save the world we all share. Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Sunfire,...
X-23 #11
• X-23 vs. Honey Badger!
• But what could drive a wedge between these two sisters?
• Meanwhile, X-23 digs deeper into the shadows of a secret new organization, HARVEST!
Rated T+
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.
X-23 #10
• The mystery behind X-Assassin revealed!
• What will Laura and Gabby do when they come face-to-face with an army of genetically altered assassins?
• Gabby's life will forever change after this!
Rated T+
X-23 #9
The mystery surrounding the X-Assassin grows, as Laura investigates its origins and Gabby does her best to find the humanity deep in its robot heart... But the X-Assassin isn't the only threat facing the sisters!
Rated T+
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.
Uncanny X-Men #11
SPECIAL OVER-SIZED ISSUE!
After the devastating events of "X-Men Disassembled," it falls to Cyclops to rebuild the X-Men in the face of overwhelming hatred. Thankfully, he's not the only X-Man to have just returned from oblivion. Scott and Logan are together again, and they are mutantkind's only hope. Writer Matthew Rosenberg and returning supe...
Ambaryerno's talking about two deaths - not just Blindfold, but Loa, whose death is indeed gratuitous and too easily overlooked.
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).
Uncanny X-Men #10
From the Age of Apocalypse to the end of the X-Men...and the dawn of the AGE OF X-MAN???
Rated T+
Pftt Noob. No one was written out of character. And mutants are always in excintion.
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 ^^
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X-23 #8
Laura and Gabby face the creators of the X-Assassin...and find they might not agree on what to do about this barely human killer.
Rated T+
What flash-forward? Everything in this story is set in the present, before Disassembled.
I don't know. The part where gabby stab someone & then have laura in her arms !
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,
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X-23 #8
Laura and Gabby face the creators of the X-Assassin...and find they might not agree on what to do about this barely human killer.
Rated T+
I’m worried that gabby might end up like sally west ten years down the line with editorial thinking they’re doing the fans a favor by killing her off repeatedly simply because some very vocal fans don’t like her
Uncanny X-Men (2018)
THE CHILDREN OF THE ATOM ARE BACK!
New ongoing series kicking off with a 10-part weekly epic, the flagship X-Men series that started it all is back and better than ever! Starting with a mysterious and tragic disappearance, the X-Men are drawn into what might be...their final adventure?! X-Fan favorite writers Ed Brisson (EXTERMINATION), Matthew...
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 be
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X-23 #6
BACK TO SCHOOL?
Laura and Gabby go undercover as teacher and student to uncover a deadly secret. Will Gabby be teacher's pet? Will Jonathan?
Rated T+
Infinity Wars: Weapon Hex
In a dark weapons program breeding subjects specifically for magic use, the 23rd attempt, now called Wanda, was finally able to connect to violent magics - making her one of the deadliest people on the planet!
Rated T+
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 more
Infinity Wars: Weapon Hex #1
In a dark weapons program breeding subjects specifically for magic use, the 23rd attempt, now called Wanda, was finally able to connect to violent magics - making her one of the deadliest people on the planet!
Rated T+
X-23 #4
• It's a sisters-vs.-sisters showdown as Laura must battle through the Cuckoos' powerful mind
projections to rescue Gabby - but why did the Cuckoos kidnap Gabby in the first place?
• And will Gabby be able to resist their psychic shackles, or will she turn against Laura too?
Rated T+
Great issue. Too much Warren, but not enough to take away from the rest.
X-23 #3
Laura has faced plenty of threats in her day... And when those threats take aim at Gabby, all bets are off. But the stakes are even higher - and the consequences more dire - when Laura comes up against a psychic superthreat: the Cuckoos!
Rated T+
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 Wa
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All-New X-Men #12
• One is a time-displaced cosmically powered angel from the '60s.
• The other is a homicidal clone struggling to fulfill her dead father's legacy.
• But who says Angel and Wolverine can't make their relationship work?
• Also: Another burgeoning romance may place one of the All-Ne...
i hope Marvel is giving him another Spider-woman series so he can redeem himself
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 giv more
All-New Wolverine #33
OLD WOMAN LAURA BEGINS!
In the not-too-distant future, the world is a utopia where heroes have succeeded in bringing peace worldwide. At the head of this utopia is none other than Laura Kinney, who's passed on her mantle of Wolverine and is living her best life as Madripoor's benevolent queen. But a long simmering evil will force Laura, out o...
@The_MJP It's confirmed that the reason she decided to use the name again will be explored in the new series.
oh, ok, personally i think the reason she changed back to X-23 is becuase the anti-SJW thought her being wolverine was insulting cause she's a diffrent gender than logan, and marvel editorial gave up and decided to make them happy not trying to look like an SJW apoligist, I do see where they're coming from, but i think it's a little overblown especially since at least she's an established supporting character and not some nobody that exist to be diverse like riri
X-23 #2
Cloned from a warrior, raised as a killer, Laura Kinney has gone through hell and come out the other side a hero. After a stint as the All-New Wolverine, she returns to her roots as X-23 to make sure no one ever has to go through the horrors she did. With her sister Gabby and their pet Jonathan in tow, X-23 forges her own destiny in this new series...
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 Nightc more
X-Men: Red #6
• From deep beneath the ocean, Jean Grey's X-Men watch as waves of anti-mutant hatred wash over the world!
• Can the X-Men quell the tide? Or will they be swept away in its wake?
Rated T+
Plenty of people care about Gentle, and were ecstatic to see him on the book. So speak for yourself. And exactly what rule about Kurt's powers was broken? This is nothing we haven't seen him do before. And you think that just because Xavier is dead Cassandra will just stop and go on her merry way?
@ambaryerno thank you so much, i honestly think this guy is just complaing about marvel because "SJW's cant write muh nostolgia"
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 s more
X-23 #1
Cloned from a warrior, raised as a killer, Laura Kinney has gone through hell and come out the other side a hero. After a stint as the All-New Wolverine, she returns to her roots as X-23 to make sure no one ever has to go through the horrors she did. With her sister Gabby and their pet Jonathan in tow, X-23 forges her own destiny in this new series...