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NYX: Wannabe by Joshua Middleton, Robert Teranishi, Joe Quesada
3.0

This is the first appearance of Laura (x23) and honestly, it has little to do with her.

Instead the story focuses around Kiden, a mutant who can basically stop time and then hurt people really bad by touching them. After a incident at school leading to her favorite teacher getting shot she goes on the run. Around half way meet Laura and then a bunch of other mutant kids who are basically the "street kids".

The thing is, some of it works. The art for the most part is great. Especially the coloring. By at the same time the artist (or could be the writer who wanted this) liked to get odd shots of girls panties and such, which since we're talking about 15 or 16 year olds is weird. But then some of the dialogue is pretty good, then some is really cringy street lingo that doesn't work. Then got some interesting characters like Kiden and Laura, and then some really bad ones. I mean for every good there's a bad, and that's the problem with the book. It's a decent read and get to see Laura when she first comes on the scene but nothing beyond that.

A 2.5 out of 5.