Give her a hand!

[colonel_green.insanejournal.com]

Four scans from X-Force #19.

As we saw last issue, X-23 was delivered to the tender mercies of Kimura, her former handler/tormentor, who proceeded to chainsaw off one of her arms.

In this issue, the spotlight is mostly ceded to Agent Morales, a former-SHIELD/current-HAMMER operative who's been on the trail of the famous assassin X-23 for pretty much the whole series.  Now having unwittingly delivered X-23 into the hands of the Facility, she's offered a spot with them, or else death.



She arrives on scene and shoots Kimura, then frees X-23, while mumbling in horror at her severed hand.  Laura's pretty unphased by it, after a moment, and picks up the other, saying the Facility can't make more of her.  She spends the rest of the issue running around carrying her severed arm, which, if Warren Ellis was writing, would probably have been milked for a lot more black comedy than it is here.

However, this is Kimura, so a bullet isn't enough to put her down.



They boogie, and eventually stumble across a lab full of trigger-scent chemical.

Elsewhere, the buildup to Selene's big scheme continues:




Ah, Selene, you Claremont-era BDSM queen.

Choi and Oback really should draw most everything, but I really wish they had a few more female faces.

Comments

[thandrak.insanejournal.com]

That happens to be one of my 'take out Wolverine' backup plans.

... what, you don't have one?

[(Anonymous)]

Mine involve long range. He seems to be the kind of guy you don't want to be to close to in a fight.

[thandrak.insanejournal.com]

Yes, well, I _did_ like Armor's point of making her armor thicker than his claws.

But generally, guns, clubs, oars crudely carved, aim for his _head_. Preferably the 'button', but the temple will do, too. Get his brainmeat smashing against that metal skull of his. It's pretty much your only chance to stop him once he decides you should be dead now. Good ol' concussion time.

[lady_mondegreen.insanejournal.com]

Wouldn't that last a very brief period, though? I think his brain would heal just as quickly as the rest of him. He'd be dazed and confused long enough to give you a five second head start.

[unknownscribler.insanejournal.com]

A bullet through the eye, followed by tyre emergency inflation foam to take up all the space his brain would otherwise try to reoccupy.

Similarly, the bitch with the chain saw might be impervious, but I very much doubt she can breath through a throat packed solid with rapid expanding foam sealant.

[thandrak.insanejournal.com]

I never said it was a _good_ plan. Just the only one that I can think of that would work if you wind up within arm's reach of an angry Wolverine.