X-23 - Volume 1: The Killing Dream
Government-controlled killing machine. Child of the streets. X-Man. X-23 has lived many lives, but none of them have ever felt right. She knows she's a killer, but she's not sure she can be anything else. The X-Men offer her a home and help facing her demons, but she's done being someone's...
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Government-controlled killing machine. Child of the streets. X-Man. X-23 has lived many lives, but none of them have ever felt right. She knows she's a killer, but she's not sure she can be anything else. The X-Men offer her a home and help facing her demons, but she's done being someone's project. She wants to be her own woman, and she'll do it on her own terms. Leaving the X-Men's island home of Utopia on a mission all her own, she's already found trouble. Even with the mutant thief Gambit at her side, her past haunts her. With new enemies rising, can X-23 trust herself not to succumb to her deadly ways? Or is it all just in her head? Free of her chains, can this killer finally taste true freedom? Collecting X-23 (2010) #1-6 and material from ALL-NEW WOLVERINE SAGA.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780785147978 (0785147977)
ASIN: 785147977
Publish date: November 2nd 2011
Publisher: Marvel
Pages no: 152
Edition language: English
Series: X-23 Limited Series 1 (#1)
The Facility was responsible for X-23 - who was never meant to have a name - and who was the female clone of Wolverine. Trained from birth to be an assassin, she was a murdered before she hit her teens. I've never been that fond of X-23; I found her rather bland to be honest. Because she wa...
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 glo...