X-23 - BABY-SITTING ADVENTURES

[brooms]

Preview for X-23 #17!







This is so cute :3

Comments

[arilou_skiff]

Babysitting Franklin & Valeria?

I think even DOOM would be scared of that!

[icon_uk]

Doom? Galactus would be wetting himself at the prospect.

The "Nothing" is perfect.

[brooms]

Serious talk: I've been in love with the idea of Uatu being a mentor to Franklin since someone suggested it a couple of years ago in a post -

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/708667.html?thread=17893435#t17893435

[nyadnar17]

I want this book. Sadly there is no shop near me. Is it available digitally(legally)?

[brooms]

I'd like to know this, too.

I can't help because I only jumped in recently (the issue before this one, #16, which can be found here - https://comics.comixology.com/#/series/4789 ).

I sent an e-mail to comixology to know if #17 will be available digitally next Wednesday.

[stubbleupdate]

I think that currently it's only the Spider-books, Ultimate Books and X-books that are out day and date on comixology

And #16 is available to buy just now, and was released on comixology on the same day that Marvel have it for release, so... probably.

I'm now a bit intrigued by the series too.

[clutzycricket]

I'm not sure- I know the first paperback trade only came out a couple of weeks ago so probably still Amazon available...

*procrastinates*

Here's a link http://www.comixology.com/sku/SEP110617/X-23-16.

Does that help?

[nyadnar17]

You are a gentleman(lady?) and a scholar. Thank you.

[clutzycricket]

It's lady, and no problem! I was delaying working on my capstone paper anyway.

[eyz]

I'm loving the direction this adventure is taking :P

[q99]

This will end well!

[baggyeyes]

I love this. Man, I hope I can track down an issue near me.

[wizardru]

This is....adorable. Is this a radical change for X-23 or is it normally this entertaining?

[q99]

It does have it's moments of lightness when characters of the sort show up (like Spider-man), but it does admittedly focus more on the darker side of things (as you'd expect from Laura).

[blackruzsa]

It depends on who's interacting with her. When dealing with enemies, it goes all out darkside, but when dealing with friends or those who want to be her friends or are at least friendly, Laura becomes the awkward turtle, totally out of her element.

[q99]

Great description :)

[shadur]

That sounds... Actually, that sounds just about right for her. Poor Laura.

[blackruzsa]

OH FUDGE YOU BEAT ME TO IT D8<
8D Oh Laura!

And this art. This art is gorgeousness, is what it is.

[mullon]

Yay, the cute art is back!

[darkknightjrk]

The artist here isn't bad, but...Phil Noto! Any time he draws is a good thing.

[glimmung]

I could not stand Noto in this case. It looked totally out of place.

[salinea]

Oh my! The cuteness!

It's even better than those fanfics where Laura babysit kid!Hope.

[shanejayell]

"There will be no fun. I promise."

LIAR.

*lol*

[q99]

She has taken the mission of no fun and will do her best to fulfill it!

But has the assassin X-23 picked a target even she cannot overcome?

[fifthie]

I like Valeria way better written as a really smart kid the way she is here, as opposed to being basically a tiny, douchey adult the way she is in some other places.

[glprime]

Agreed. I just wish the sliding timescale would snap back. At best, Franklin's a late-teens/early twenties like the Power Pack kids should be, and Val's middle-to-high school aged.

[jaybee3]

Franklin will never age. It's like an unwritten Marvel rule. You can fanwank it that given his powers he deliberately keeps himself young (just like he changed history that caused Val to be born instead of miscarried).

[glprime]

To that I say Bucky, Jean Grey, Uncle Ben.

Unwritten rules are traditions people are two unambitious to challenge.

[lorriek]

Hasn't Peter Parker been Spider-Man about 12 or 13 years, Marvel-time (although Marvel would love you to believe he's only 25)? Franklin has been around for a long time, but in-universe he shouldn't be older than 10 or so. The problem for me is that there seems to be no consensus as to how old he should be written and drawn. The poor kid seems to fluctuate in age constantly. How old is he supposed to be in these panels? I can't tell.

Besides, if it's any character's fault Franklin can't age it's Peter "Spider-Man is all about youth" Parker.

[jaybee3]

I agree how he's drawn has clouded the issue. Franklin still looks the same age as when Val was BORN while they've aged her up to 5 or 6 or more. Eventually she'll end up being older than him.

[fifthie]

The art here's pretty good too.

[drexer]

Pic-ed.

Because Valeria is awesome like that.

[mrosa]

Quite fun indeed!

[introverted_excavator]

Laura still looks like the lovechild of Kristen Stewart and Tifa Lockheart.

I still approve of this.

[mola_ram]

Clever...
Clever...
little kids...

Distracting Laura with promises of shiny dinosaurs the second they are alone...
Look at the short look they give each other before they have formulated a plan...
Look at how they look like the scary blond kids from Village of the damned...

These kids are evil I tell you!

EVIL!!!

(I absolutely adore them)

[espanolbot]

Well, at least the boy isn't doing a pseudo-Nazi salute like he was in one of the solicits a while back.

[mola_ram]

But the girl is almost doing the nazi salute WITH BOTH HANDS when she raise her arms to tell of the interdimensional window.

That's how evil she is!

And what did she build that window for to begin with?
To look at shiny dinosaurs?
Don't make me laugh.
I'm sure there's another settting that allows her to gaze into the Hydraverse or something.

(When I grow up I want to be exactly like them)

[stubbleupdate]

But the girl is almost doing the nazi salute WITH BOTH HANDS when she raise her arms to tell of the interdimensional window.
Despite what David Low would have you believe, it didn't work like that.

[mola_ram]

Fair nuff, Then she is two closed fists away from doing the hydra salute ;o)

Also, I want to see Franklin and Valerie to team up with Loki!

With Wollstag and Throg on babysitting detail

[shadowpsykie]

oh Laura... you have no idea what you are in for.

[long_silence]

"Are you my mummy?"

And I'm really excited for this arc. Hellion is supposed to be guest starring.

[jaybee3]

Now I want Marjorie Liu to write a Franklin/Valeria book (and I do think given their respective power/intelligence set they could make an interesting one with those two). This is so much fun....and pretty, pretty art.

[fifthie]

I was trying to figure out what it is that got me so hard about the above, and I worked out that it's specifically that Valeria sticks her hands up in the air for emphasis when she tells Eckwinty-Three about her interdimensional teleport window.

Pretty much sells the whole bit, right there.

[ninjapeps]

I'm sorry but I see that last panel and all I can think of is "are you my mummy?"