Sunday, September 11, 2011

X-23 14 also known as Marjorie Liu I love you.

This will probably be fairly short.

Just read X-23 #14.  Great little issue.  This is the second part of a story involving X-23 running around New York searching for a young man she was once sent to assassinate.  However in the course of this, incredibly strange events have occurred that have caused her to run into the Future Foundation (the guys we used to call the Fantastic Four before the Human Torch died.)

Its incredibly thrilling to see X-23 juxtaposed against the kinds of fantastic elements the FF constantly run into, and X-23's personal reactions to the team itself, and its members feel incredibly natural.  So often when characters meet each other for the first time in comics, its so wrote, so by the numbers, this however is the kind of interaction that only these particular characters could have.

Finally there's the twist, the force behind these strange events, and how it ties the FF and X-23 together.  Its a great little bit of continuity that unites them, something potentially really fun.  If you've seen the most recent Marvel solicits you probably already know what it is, but if not its a wonderful surprise.

Art is by Phil Noto and its absolutely gorgeous, and I MEAN gorgeous.  Some of its a tad stiff, but the expressions and figures are beautiful, and when the man has to draw a huge sprawling alien landscape, he draws the heck out of it.

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