X-23
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X-23 Part one (A Widow’s Prey) A top-secret program is tasked to replicate the original Weapon X experiment that produced the feral mutant Wolverine. When the experiment goes wrong Nick fury summons Black widow to take down the savage X-23. X-23 is an independent non profit fan film created solely for the love of comics. X-23, Black Widow and Nick Fury are the properties of marvel comics.
Variant cover to X-23 #1. Art by Gabriele Dell’Otto.
X-23 (Laura Kinney) is a fictional comic book superheroine appearing in books published by Marvel Comics, in particular those featuring the X-Men. X-23 is a female clone of Wolverine.
Cloned from a damaged copy of Wolverine’s genome, X-23 was created to be the perfect killing machine. For years, she proved herself a notable assassin, though a series of tragedies eventually led her to Wolverine and the X-Men, with whom she now seeks to turn her life around.
Publication History
X-23 was created for the X-Men: Evolution animated television series before being brought into comics. X-23 first appears in episode #40 (season 3, episode 10) of the program (titled “X-23”).
Her comic debut was in 2004 in the series NYX, where her history and past were never divulged but her abilities were showcased. In X-23, her first miniseries, her origin was fully explained. She became part of the X-Men supporting cast in Uncanny X-Men #450.
X-23 was created by Craig Kyle. He and Christopher Yost were the writers of the two episodes of X-Men: Evolution in which X-23 appears (“X-23” and “Target X.”) Kyle and Yost also scripted X-23: Innocence Lost, a six issue miniseries that details the character’s origin, as well as X-23: Target X, a six issue miniseries that covers the character’s experiences between her origin story and her appearance in NYX. They continued to write X-23 into their runs on New X-Men and X-Force as a member of the teams.
X-23 received an ongoing comic book series in 2010, written by Marjorie Liu. On November 15, 2011, Marvel announced that the X-23 comic series would end at issue #21.
X-23 appeared as a regular character in Avengers Academy from issue #23 (Feb 2012) through its final issue #39 (Jan 2013).
X-23 will appear in Avengers Arena, a new series by Dennis Hopeless and Kev Walker.
