Give 'em Hell, Boy

@dewyatt @skullcat23-blog @luna-bimborina @baradorable @majingojira @thestomping-ground @movalise (and others feel free to answer!)

What do you think Laura would be like today, if she retained her earlier characterization created by KYOST, Liu, Quesada, and Gage?

What do you think her solo title would have looked like, if we didn’t have the direction change via Bendis/Hopeless/Taylor?

I already answered some of what I thought- but I am curious what others answers would be?

Would Julian and Laura have reconnected? Would Julian have simply moved on?

What would have happened with Kimura?

Would Laura have broken free of the trigger scent?

I feel like we could have eventually seen something like Taylor's rendition, albeit with a more obvious dark/troubled side that would come out more. Something that shows she's gotten comfortable enough to open up, and finds it easier to fit in with society. But she'd still internally view herself as an outsider.

If they kept her old characterization, her ditching everyone at the drop of a hat could be a feature instead of a bug. She's not dropping her supporting cast and being a bad friend; for various reasons, she thinks they're better off without her, so she's always at the ready to walk away. It'd actually be a pretty cool aspect to have that as a character trait, where she's sabotaging her own relationships and dealing with the consequences of running away.

We saw a bit of that with NYX #8, and it'd be cool to expand that to all her relationships. Even if Julian is one of the people she affected most, I'd have loved to see Mercury hopelessly fail at keeping in touch, or Pixie getting angry that one of her besties is with the Avengers kids, or Laura genuinely thinking about Surge's criticisms about her behavior.

Imagine if she didn't warm up to Gabby as easily. Like she continually pushes her away, the way Logan did with Laura. Laura thinks she's protecting Gabby, but she's actually hurting her. And Gabby would have to force her way into Laura's life and ensure that Laura can't leave her like she does everyone else.

GENERATION X-23 #6 JODY HOUSER (W) • Emilio Laiso (A) COVER BY PARTHA PRATIM SARKAR VARIANT COVER BY Daniele Di Nicuolo HELLFIRE COSTUME SWAP VARIANT COVER BY JUAN FRIGERI VARIANT COVER BY FABRIZIO DE TOMMASO X-NUMBERS ASSEMBLE! The next generation of X-numbers assemble out in the wider world! But their first mission under Laura Kinney’s leadership…just may be their last! 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

We can get THIS… but not a NXM with actual NXM?!

I got it from Julia Olimpia Piccinno after seeing her X-23 commission with the Sideshow statue pose! (It’s also amazing if you haven’t seen it!)

I will say it’s more affordable than most commission artists I have looked at and she offers both painted and digital! (I especially love the telekinetic kiss!)

They had the prime opportunity to have Melee, Axio, Bronze, the Outliers, and the newly created mutants be brand new students; possibly even bring back the abandoned squad idea from Academy and to offer new readers an easy vantage point into the X-Men…

And instead these writers are making the same error Anka’s “the Five Lights”…Aaron’s “WatXM”…Bendis “ANXM” and Strain’s creations all made…

Treating them like veterans and seasoned X-Men, who are somehow more trained than characters like “Wolf Cub” orSophie Cuckoo”. 🙄😒

We COULD have had Hellion running the “Hellions” squad with Scout, Axio, Calico and others…

Maybe a plotline on Axio choosing to hang around his “team” instead of Melee and Bronze and the difficulty of people making “new friends”/growing apart. Maybe Gabby freaking out about being “on the villain team”.

There’s frankly a lot of storylines they could have done.

Emma: "Hello, darling. Would you like to help your fellow mutants AND aggravate Cyclops at the same time?"

Hellion: "What's the plan?"

Emma: "So we have this Sinister tech-"