Saturday, February 17, 2007

X-23:Target X #2 - Marvel


This issue begins where the last one ended, tied to a chair in a warehouse being interrogated by Captain America and Matt Murdock. We get a lot of the back-story, by way of the present. After she killed her "mother", Sarah Kinney, and everyone else in the facility, she headed to San Francisco to find Debbie and Megan Kinney. She saved Megan's life once at the facility, and introduces herself to Debbie as Sarah's daughter. Cap has a flashback to Los Angeles four years ago, when he was supposed to be guarding a candidate, but then someone attacked the "party" and killed everyone. Well everyone except for a little girl in leg braces, which Cap helped rescue and send out in an ambulance. It wasn't until shortly after that that Cap realizes that she had to have been the attacker since she was the only survivor, and everybody in the ambulance is found dead. So now, he feels responsible for everything she's done since then. In her flashbacks, Laura is talking to Megan, and telling her everything, because she thought she already knew. We also see a bunch of episodes of what happens when you put a programmed teenager, with authority issues, no discipline, and control issues into a high school setting. The results are hilarious. So after being suspended, they steal the principle's car, and spend the day joy-riding. But what she didn't realize is that she was already being followed. And her next mission was going to be to kill Debbie and Megan. Craig Kyle and Chris Yost make a fantastic writing duo. And, I really like the pencils of Mike Choi. This series has a ton of potential. I really hope it lives up to it.

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