Usually having mixed art in a single comics volume bother me; however, I found Conrad's art style so distasteful that turning the page and seeing the scene done by another artist became a relief. The art was so unpleasant that I’m not even that mad at Liu’s below average story, It only added a bunch of badly planned twists to an already horrible X-men series.

This book made me feel so strongly for Laura. It’s heartbreaking how she’s so convinced that she’s doomed to be a bad guy just because of what was done to her to turn her into a killing machine. Someone get this girl a therapist and a safe place where she can be a normal human and not have to fight for her life constantly, please and thank you.

This is Marjorie Liu's take on X-23, and the first solo title I've read about the character.I liked it!Now, even though this is volume 1, this is by no means an origin story for Laura. In fact, there seems to be quite a bit of backstory to her that I'd love to find out more about. However, this does give you everything you need to get started with this story arc, so even if you've never heard of X-23, you'd be ok starting off here, I think.It starts off with X-23 feeling isolated and ostracized

Why does it seems like it’s always the powered up teen-aged girls that need to get put through the paces in these storylines?This is the first X-23 collection that I’ve picked up. For those who don’t know, Laura (X-23) is Wolverine’s clone, who was bred to be an assassin. She was put through unspeakable hoops to do unspeakable things, eventually, even by the X-Men. Is it too late to get the “normal teen-aged life” genie back in the bottle? Probably. This doesn’t stop Laura from trying to get in...

Laura Kinney is X-23, so-called as she’s the 23rd DNA sample from Weapon X/Wolverine and survived the lab that was trying to make her into another Weapon X. She’s Wolverine’s clone/daughter with all of his powers from a healing factor to the snikting claws! In The Killing Dream, Laura deals with mental scarring as she confronts her traumatic past as well as a shape-shifting demon(?!) and then later teams up with the ragin’ Cajun himself Gambit to take on Mister Sinister – who’s trapped in a woma...

I kind of worked my way sideways into my interest in Laura. I'd heard of her, but wasn't inspired to look into her at all. Female clone of Wolverine? Meh. My first real exposure to her was in Kyle's X-Force. That's when she really started to grow on me. And honestly, I felt pretty bad for the kid. This ended up being a good place to pick up, set after that version of X-Force became public knowledge. Liu does a really good job of communicating Laura's confused emotional state. She feels lonely, b...

Sadly not as good as Craig Kyle's comics.Laura herself is still interesting but Innocence lost and Target X where self contained stories while in The killing dream story takes place includes more of the marvels world and character and that is where is my problem.I usually avoid Marvel comics because Earth 616 (universe where most of marvel characters exist) has become one overdeveloped mess and it takes a lot to pull off really good story there.It's still ok comic and I am continuing this story

2.5 stars. This was something for sure and yeah confusing and felt psychedelic reading it.So a new reader coming into it will be confused as to the events of this comic. So it starts after her X-force days and we pick up with her being haunted by some demon in the form of her father Logan and later we see her Academy X friends pick up with her and ask her regarding the stuff she did and well she leaves Utopia and Scott her to some other place where some demon assaults her and she is knocked out....

This volume apparently is relatively late in the history of X-23, but it has a helpful summary of her history in the back, narrated by Wolverine, so now I know more or less what her story is.The summary reminded me why I stopped reading X-Men way back when - every other issue introduces some new global conspiracy and a new recurring villain, and since villains never, ever die permanently in comics, 50 years later you have like a bazillion nemeses each of which is "The X-Men's greatest enemy!"Any...

Laura was created to be a weapon.Ever since she escaped other people have been trying to use her. Even the X-Men have utilized X-23's assassin training with X-Factor. Right now Laura is just trying to find herself.The Killing Dream felt fairly disjointed to me. I assume I just didn't read the necessary issues prior to reading this, but I'm not certain. It seems a demon wants Laura to kill for him. It appears Laura is the hottest commodity since the Weapon X program was looking for a candidate to...

Eh. It wasn't what I was expecting. Plus the story seemed a little disjointed. I may pick up the next one

The art is the worst part of this book. It does match the tone of the writing, but it isn't what I'd call pretty to look at most of the time. There are different artists who worked on this so it isn't the same all throughout. Some are better than others, but generally it isn't a nice looking book. And is it just me, or is Ororo so light-skinned it's hard to tell it's her? I didn't know until Logan said her name...But it does have good writing. There are, admittedly, some moments that are on the

This is X-23 comic of 2010-2012 so don't confuse it with the mid-aughts origin story runs (those can now be found in the X-23 Complete Collection as can one of the two arcs in this volume). While I found the first arc of the demonic possession of Laura and the question of her soul a bit tiresome, Marjorie M. Liu's second arc with Miss Sinister and a more sympathetic and less pervy than normal Gambit was particularly good. The comprehensive backstory of X-23 is in the back and also helps, althoug...

Having recently enjoyed Chris Kyle's take on X-23's origin story, I decided to seek out some more X-23 comics. The one problem with that is Marjorie M. Liu's run begins significantly further down Laura's timeline, and the results are not always friendly to new readers. While reading The Killing Dream, I often found myself confused, and suspect I would have enjoyed the graphic novel more had I been more experienced with the series that directly preceded it (X-Force).At the same time, even with th...

I have been hearing tons of great stuff about X-23 so when I saw the graphic novel at work I grabbed it. This volume is the beginning of X-23's standalone series but it is the beginning of her story. Right of the bat I want to say that I thought they did a great job integrating information about X-23's past into the story so that I could still follow along even though I have been out of the loop for a little while. The also provided a great summary in the back to make things even easier. I find

I'd already read Vol 2. So this seemed like a logical step...in reverse order. I really enjoyed this book. Looking at the psychological consequences of being a mindless assassin for so many years and everything it did to her, along with giving Gambit some of the best stuff he's had in years, along with a whole different dimension to Wolverine. I also like a female X-Man who's not all Tits and Ass too. Also no ridiculous love triangles and crap like that. Just good old fashioned stuff. Reminds me...

I tried to savor this but it was too compelling and I had to finish in one sitting. X-23 is such a fascinating and complex character. Really wish they would stop canceling all her series, Laura Kinney's story should be told!

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