X-23: Deadly Regenesis #1

X-23: Deadly Regenesis

by Erica Schultz, Kalman Andrasofszky (Cover Art), Edgar Salazar (Artist)

ASSASSIN OR X-MAN? THE DEADLY DAYS OF X-23! LAURA KINNEY, A.K.A. X-23, was cloned from LOGAN and trained by the Facility to be a deadly assassin. Even as she tries to put that life behind her, forces will try to drag her back - and she'll fight them tooth and claw! Beset by NEW ENEMIES - as well as OLD FAVORITES! - and set during X-23's days as a member of X-MEN and X-FORCE, when she walked away from the island of UTOPIA to find where she truly belongs, join us for an ALL-NEW story in the fan-favorite saga of Laura Kinney!

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Comic Book, X Men, Graphic Novels

32 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 8, 2023

About the author

Erica Schultz is an American comic book writer, letterer, and editor. She is the first woman to write a Spawn comic, and is best known for her writing work at Marvel on titles like Daredevil, X-23, and Hallows' Eve.

Reviews

[Jess · Rating 2 out of 5]

the writing and dialogue is a little clunky at times. feels like a regression in her character from before All New Wolverine. The more I think about this after having read it the less I like it

[Paul Stanis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Outstandingly clean, compact, efficient, and effective comic storytelling. These qualities parallel the skills of X-23 herself, which reminds me of the first Terminator being a movie as brutally efficient as its villain.

[Akshay · Rating 2 out of 5]

I picked it up because the character is once I've been enjoying a lot these past few years. This mini seems to be set at an earlier point during the X-Men timeline, somewhere around the Utopia era.

It is definitely a more angsty and younger Laura Kinney who is trying to figure herself out and we are shown fairly early on that the main antagonist and threat is from her past as a manufactured weapon of murder and assassination.

The art is decent but nothing exceptional - serviceable I would say - and the story is pretty much the same. None of it is bad, but by the end of just this first issue I was bored and it felt like a slog with nothing that engaged me. Perhaps it felt too reminiscent of similar stories that have been boringly done to death for Logan/Wolverine, but I found nothing that inspired me to read any further in the series.

[James DeSantis · Rating 3 out of 5]

A somewhat bland take on my favorite mutant character. Just saving people, a new threat that obviously won't be for long, and nothing crazy happening. But it is Laura and I will keep reading.

[Jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.25