The first series about this character was brought to us . . gee, it's been 3 or 4 years now. Wow! Time really flies. Anyways, the first series was brought to us by Joe Quesada and Joshua Middleton. Well, Joe's busy now so Marjorie Liu writes this one. It has the same basic feel to it, but you know . . Joe's Joe, so . . how are you going to compare to that? So . . I'm not. I'm going to view this installment as if I had never read the first one. Not that it's that different, but . . it has it's own feel to it. I don't think it would be fair to compare. Although, I will say that Kalman Andrasofszky, as did Josh Middleton who did the art on the first series, definitely has a very good style to him. And actually, he has a lot of the same flavor and feel to his stuff as Josh did. So it was very easy to get back in to the story. Basically we pick up where we left off after the last series. Kiden has pulled her life back together . . sort of . . and seems to be in a good place. It's not the best place in the world, but . . it's probably the best place she could be in right now. So of course . . all of that is going to change. We don't know the who or why yet, but this book starts out with her chained to a table, battered and bruised and being psychologically tortured. But the real story actually happens 2 days before that. I like the way this story is put together. We get to see Kiden's life, as it is now, and also a little into her psyche. Then, at the end of the book, it looks like all of that is going to come crashing down. How will they handle it? What will they do about it? It's a 6 issue series, so . . we have plenty of time to figure it out. I'm just wondering how they're going to up the ante after the debut of X-23, Laura, last time? Maybe they won't even try. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
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