Not as good as volume 1 sadly. So Gabby and Laura continue their adventure but this time we meet yet ANOTHER clone of Laura. This one does not have a healing factor and could die. She's also partly robotic. So Gabby of course decides to befriend her to try and make her join their gang. This story also goes into the final two part story which involves Gabby trying to find her way in life. Overall, it's good. It's colorful, the fights are fun, and the Laura/Gabby relationship remains to be the hig...

Marvel continuity-wise the first X-book to be cancelled to make room for Hickman's X-univers..This second volume is not as good as the first as it continues with the ongoing and now boring(?) theme of X and HB seeking out firms using theirs or other mutants' genes for bio warfare, crime or profit - Tamaki does build more on the characters and relationship between X and Honey Badger..6 out of 12

It's hard to eat flame resistant, flying X-Turkeys. X-23 keeps losing sisters.

Laura and Gabby cross paths with yet another clone of themselves, this one a cyborg. Tamaki keeps the plot simple and moving. Diego Olortegui's art is certainly solid. This series had a lot of promise. It is, however, the only series I was sad to see go in order to make way for Hickman's X-Men. The X-Men comics have not been good in general for years.

3.75/5I enjoyed the deep dive into Laura and Gabby's relationship but I feel like the main action plot was repetitive considering the stories that Laura gets in general nowadays. I really like the art in this run!

Goddammit, once again a great and under-appreciated Marvel series gets the boot entirely too soon. Well it was a good run while it lasted, and I enjoyed Mariko Tamaki’s take on the team of Laura, Gabby and Jonathan even more than Tom Taylor’s. Loved the art in this volume, too — Diego Olortegui deserves more work and recognition, this book looked absolutely lovely and consistent throughout. I’m going to miss this delightful series, hoping that one day Marvel will bring it back with yet another s...

I am eternally grateful that no one spoiled for me that Gabby is growing up. And I won't spoil it for anyone reading this, either. Just know that if you read the X-23 titles for the relationship between Laura and Gabby, then this volume will absolutely not let you down.

i will never stop being bitter about publishing systems that give female-led books 0 chance to get past a few trades :(I adored the dynamics here, and i wish the final arc had a bunch more time to explore the ideas- but Mariko Tamaki handled the necessary shift in pacing a lot better than most!

God damn it, my computer glitched out while I was halfway through my review here, so I've lost most of my thoughts.Right, quick version - the first four issues are X-Assassin, which isn't bad but feels a little like it's covering ground that we already covered back at the beginning of Taylor's run with the Four Sisters, so it's a bit unnecessary.Dear Gabby, the following two issues, is much better, showing the differences between Laura and Gabby as well as the closeness between the two of them,

Dammit, Marvel, I can't believe you cancelled X-23 yet AGAIN. Y'know, I read comics for long-form storytelling, which lasts not months, but years, even decades. You're violating our compact about the serial comic form when you cancel comics on a yearly basis, and when you constantly give new authors the OK to soft-boot their titles.Anywho ...Tamaki really seems to have figured out her characters in this second volume, especially Gabby, who is awesome in her Gabby-ness, not just in her liveliness...

Honey Badger is real cute and fun and Tamaki succeeded to nail the characters after Taylor but this (again) final arc is simply bland at best when not simply ridiculous (fireproof flying turkeys, really?). Of course the title's cancellation rushed up the end, open and unsatisfying but Tamaki probably hadn't much choice.Art is ok, leaning toward manga a bit but in no way memorable. Just like the plot.

I really liked this up until the last issue and then it just got weird? I mean, what kind of ending is that?! :(

This is a nice book with two pleasantly self-contained stories featuring Laura and Gabby encountering evil manipulators of mutant DNA. In the first one they meet a cyborg clone of themselves and find she's but one of a whole army. The second, shorter one is a near train-wreck (literally) of a story, with a good look at their deepening relationship. The art is pretty good (except for the faces being too round...what's with that?), and the writing is very good; very direct, with every panel enhanc...

This was great!!

more like a 2.5 for a majority of this.

Mariko Tamaki's take on the X-23 series is very much the Laura and Gabby show, with the overarching plot focused on the pair's relationship and their reckoning with being clones. Of course, that means it's very "clone, clone, clone" all the time, but the Constant Clone Crises (CCC) are thoughtfully portrayed, particularly in relation to Gabby's desire for family.In X-Assassin, the pair come across a weakened, cyborg clone of themselves. Gabby falls in love, Laura doesn't trust it. The pair track...

I was an enthusiast of Tamaki's first issues on X-23. The first arc had a cool X-Men flavour and fun dialogs. The relationship between Laura and Gabby seemed a little stuck, but it was quite amusing. All that stopped being true in the final six issues: the plot becomes repetitive and lacks any thrill or interest. The two final issues are simply stupid. It's a shame, but I don't regret Marvel's decission to end this series because, frankly, it was clearly going nowhere. As I said, a shame: Laura

(read as single issues)Hate 2 compare but this never gelled for me the way Tom Taylor's All-New Wolverine series did. The whole clone-robot-assassin plot here felt like re-treading the same stuff for Laura without...much new to come out of if it? Still, love these characters and I'm glad Jonathan the literal wolverine got to stay and hang out.

'...Because let's be honest, kicking butt is kind of our yoga.'You know what, despite what I said about clone storylines in my review of volume 1 being commonplace for Laura and Gabby, I enjoyed this for some reason. Also, I know what Laura said but I definitely got attached to TUOKS 😭😭 I mean, (view spoiler)[she was basically a cyborg version of how Laura used to be aj;dlsjfkd (hide spoiler)]The first arc is about the X-Assassin and the second one is how Laura and Gabby are bound to have differ...

Much like the first volume, this wasn't bad, but not as good as the previous series. We find Laura and Gabby meeting a cybernetic clone that Gabby takes pity on. Then they face some...Weapon X Turkeys?I didn't enjoy the art in this volume quite as much as previous volume either.I still liked it, but it wasn't a stand out.