When we last left X-23 she had just been thrown into a trunk to be carted away for Malcolm Colcord and Daken to experiment on. What horros await X-23? Which side is Daken really on? What happened to Gambit? All these questions will hopefully answered....now!
The issue starts off with X-23 in an isolation chamber at Colcord's HQ and we get some panels of Colcord taunting X-23 about a few different things. We then jump to a very cute little scene of Tyger and Gambit cuddling after we wakes up from getting knocked out. They talk about the good ol days when they had nothing to lose and weren't responsible to anyone or anything. But when they started caring they became vulnerable.
Flash forward to Colcord's office and we see him go over all his intell on X-23. Daken show's up and they end up talking about X-23's old trigger scent. Daken asks if he has any, and Colcord says his people make up a batch and then asks why. Daken asks why he would have it unless he planned to use it. Daken and Colcord "discuss" Colcord's intents for Weapon X and Daken reminds him of who he's dealing with.
Then we get to meet a mysterious stranger who seems to buying trigger scent from one of Colcord's cronies at the docks of Madripoor.
Next we see more of Colcord's cronies while Daken watches and secretly cuts an incision on X-23's manacles he then leaves. The cronies rev up a chainsaw and begin to cut open X-23's back but she escapes and unleashes the fury all the while thinking about how these people think that she's only a thing and not a person. When the deed is over her eyes are blank and she looks like she's doing a Scorpion from Mortal Kombat impression. He eyes come back and she seems to be in shock at what she has done. Perhaps the trigger scent? Daken comes in with X-23's file and the two chit chat about life. The two compare their personal lives and how one was raised by the Facility and the other by Romulus. X-23 says the two are alike. Daken of-course denies this and threatens to hack X-23's head off. Meanwhile at the docks the Goon who gave the mysterious stranger the trigger scent sample now gives her three new samples: a X-23 sample, a Weapon X sample and a Daken sample. Then the mysterious stranger thanks him by pumping him full of lead.
We then return to Daken and X-23 as the twp explore Colcord's facility and eventually come across a cell block. The cells open and out come a shit town of creatures come out ready to tear them to shreds. And that is Ms. Liu leaves us for now.
Liu's writing is as always in top form...nuff said on that topic. I really dig Stegman's art a lot more than the last issue and I hope he stays on X-23 for a while. Although Sana Takeda will be on the next arc.
I think the biggest question that spawns out of this issues is this: Who is the mysterious stranger who is after X-23's DNA sample and trigger scent? A easy guess might be X-23's old nemesis/handler Kimura. But I don't this is the case. Liu has been pretty clear in her interviews that she's expanding X-23's friends/enemies. So who ever this mysterious stranger is...I'm curious to see what her next move is.
All in the next chapter in Collision picks up the pace while setting up some future key events and it ears a solid 8 out of 10 Gs.
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