MARVEL COMICS – @Marvel
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WRITER: Tom Taylor
ART: David Lopez and David Navarrot
COLORS: Nathan Fairbairn
LETTERS: VC's Cory Petit
COVER: Bengal
VARIANT COVERS: David Lopez; Art Adams with Peter Steigerwald; David Marquez with Marte Gracia; Keron Grant (Hip Hop variant cover)
36pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (January 2016)
Parental Advisory
Laura Kinney is a Marvel Comics character. She is best known as X-23, a female clone of classic X-Men character, Wolverine. X-23 was originally created by writer Craig Kyle for the Saturday morning animated television series, “X-Men: Evolution” (Season 2, Episode 11). X-23 made her first appearance in Marvel Comics in the comic book, NYX #3 (cover dated: February 2004).
Like Wolverine, X-23 has a healing factor, superhuman strength, senses, speed, agility, and reflexes. She also has retractable, adamantium-coated bone claws in her hands (two per hand rather than the three per hand that Wolverine has) and also in her feet.
After Marvel's Secret Wars event miniseries, X-23 succeeded Logan/Wolverine as the star of the current ongoing Wolverine comic book series. That new series is entitled All-New Wolverine and is written by Tom Taylor, drawn by David Lopez and David Navarrot, colored by Nathan Fairbairn, and lettered by Cory Petit.
All-New Wolverine #1 finds Laura and her boyfriend, the X-Men's Angel (the young, time-displaced Warren Worthington, III), in Paris trying to stop an assassination. Their showdown with the assassins takes them to the Eiffel Tower. Laura's opponents are formidable, but the identity of one of them shocks Laura, but does not necessarily surprise her.
The first issue of All-New Wolverine is fairly straight-forward: stop the assassination. Everything else is just set-up for future issues. Still, All-New Wolverine #1 is an enjoyable read, an old-fashioned action-adventure, superhero fight comic. Tom Taylor does not dazzle readers with character drama the way he did in the short-lived, but excellent Superior Iron Man.
The art by David Lopez and David Navarrot is fast-paced and kinetic; the graphical storytelling really sells the action, but also captures the intimacy of a flashback featuring Logan and Laura. I did not plan on reading this series beyond the first issue, but I think that I will keep reading it for a bit.
B+
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux
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