Liu Examines the Dark Past of "X-23"  Fri, June 10th, 2011 at
8:58am PDT  Comic Books Dave Richards, Staff Writer  X-23's
journey of self discovery isn't getting any easier in Marjorie
Liu's hands  Only a few heroes in the Marvel Universe can say
their body count is significantly greater than their age. Laura
Kinney, the titular character in Marvel Comics' "X-23" series by
writer Marjorie Liu, is one of those few. Kinney, a genetic
clone of the X-Man known as Wolverine, began killing at an early
age. That's because the organization that created her used
horrific physical and emotional abuse to transform the young
X-23 into their own personal assassin. Fortunately when Laura
became a teenager she was able to escape from her creators and
find a home with the X-Men and a father figure in the form of
Wolverine.  That lasted until X-Men team leader Cyclops decided
he needed his own secret team of killers and drafted Laura and
Wolverine for his incarnation of X-Force. Eventually the team
was exposed and dissolved,