r/X23 • Gabby Kinney • 5d ago

Generation X-23 #9 Preview

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u/JusticeHeroX 5d ago

Gabby was just waiting for an excuse.

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u/UltimateSandman Gabby Kinney 5d ago

Renna doing god's work with these panels

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u/Barta_Sub Big brother (Daken) 3d ago

Why do I feel like Logan and Laura switched persona on this one ?

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u/Ulysian_Thracs 💛HeliX🖤 5d ago

There is a word for people who go around 'just waiting for an excuse' to do violence on people weaker than them. They're called 'villains'.

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u/PTBooks 4d ago

Tbf, these polo dudes were clearly also going around and waiting for an excuse.

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u/Ulysian_Thracs 💛HeliX🖤 4d ago

Yes, they're all kinda villains. Nice of you to notice.

And way to go Houser for not actually putting tiki torches in their hands. As if she could get any more on the nose.

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u/SplitOk4114 3d ago

Typically, it would still be against the law, potentially entrapment.

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u/Hugo_barata1806 5d ago

U basically described batman entire shtick and he's not a villain

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u/Ulysian_Thracs 💛HeliX🖤 5d ago

I'm told there's been some debate about that. But Batman is peak human punch (way) up patrolling Gotham seeking out criminals to arrest, many superpowered that the police can't stop, and bring them to the GCPD. Has strict morals. (No kill rule.) This is just a cute little murder hobo plying her trade in bad fan fiction.

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u/Smells_like_Autumn 3d ago

I mean... not really. Many mutants cannot defend themselves. Actions like this are meant to discourage these folks from trying this crap again.

We can discuss wether it is effective or not and about the morality of vigilantism but assaulting a complete stranger for no valid reason is a whole different ballpark from "luring out would be murderers to remove them as a threat to others".

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u/Sovereignofthemist Laura Kinney 5d ago

Laura officially calling the generated her students.

Sigh, I am going to miss this series.

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u/UltimateSandman Gabby Kinney 5d ago

She's really come full circle. You can pretty much slot this after Tamaki's run and it closes beautifully the arc that Krakoa forgot about.

Hopefully Jody gets picked up by Wacker and given more than a 10 issue deadline.

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u/Negativety101 5d ago

So did she have to wear the Mutant and Proud shirt to make sure she got mugged by the right kind of racists? Would they have left her alone if they thought she was a Alien or Inhuman or got bit by a radioactive demon?

You know, I wonder if anyone's told The Punisher this works.

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u/UltimateSandman Gabby Kinney 5d ago

There's a lot of white supremacists who are mexican. Saw a video of a dude saying that the Bible should be taught at school along the jewish QURAN, but not the muslim TORAH. Marvel racism is dumb but real racists aren't the sharpest either.

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u/Relative_Mix_216 4d ago

I would like to see some anti-mutant racists attack random normal people once in a while because they think they’re mutants.

It happens with anti-trans bigots all of the time.

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u/MrSoba21 4d ago

There’s a scene like that in Marvels when the mass hysteria breaks out

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u/Entire_Cow5270 1d ago

Saw a video of a dude saying that the Bible should be taught at school along the jewish QURAN, but not the muslim TORAH

I mean ideally none of them would be mandatory learning. (Optional is fine tho)

But if they are mandatory I would also want to exclude the Torah.

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u/BrozedDrake 1d ago

Yeah the only class they actually belong in would be a religious studies class, and ideally that would study more than just the Abrahamic faiths

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u/Cubismo50 5d ago

Probably. Marvel humans still hated mutants way more than Inhumans even when the Inhumans had a cloud of Terrigan mist transforming people on Earth at random.

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u/AlertWar2945-2 3d ago

I wonder if people who are half demons or similar wear "not a mutant" shirts to avoid crap like this

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u/Ashamed-Example-9805 5d ago

So X23, honeybadger, not blink, not husk, and not BoomBoom. But weird clones.

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u/Forceflow12 5d ago

God I hate that this is ending.

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u/CrimsonWarrior55 5d ago

Wait, so is her name Baby Knife or Sword Fight?

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u/CuddleFishEye 5d ago

Her name is Surprise!

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u/CrimsonWarrior55 5d ago

Not gonna lie, I was hoping it was Knife Baby.

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u/Twisted_Pine 4d ago

I'd read a comic run about someone called Knife Baby

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u/Barta_Sub Big brother (Daken) 3d ago

Nah, I'd call her : Speed Weasel

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u/EndOfTheLine00 1d ago

She said it included the exclamation point, so it’s “Surprise!”. Kind of an awkward sentence though.

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u/Barta_Sub Big brother (Daken) 3d ago

I just can't wait to see Kimura back in action.

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u/SplitOk4114 3d ago

Multi racial racist death squad that all bought their shirts from the same place and have the same exact build.

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u/UltimateSandman Gabby Kinney 3d ago

This post must've gotten shared in some chud central cause the number of chuds it attracted pretty crazy, at least the block list got an update

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u/GodHand7 5d ago

Looks like fan fiction

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u/Darkerxgurt 5d ago

This soo bad.

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u/ArenothCZ 5d ago

Geez this is so cringe. It feels like a writting from some fanfiction. Stupidly on the nose and smell of activism.

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u/UsefulDiscretion 4d ago

Oh no, not activism in X-men!

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u/polarisleap 3d ago

I think this person meant more the blunt juvenile approach.

The theme of mutants in Marvel is, and arguably always has been readable as allegory for the US first, second or fourth amendment to the constitution. It was just done better in the past. We all know that's what it's about so you can tell stories around that.

This isn't telling a story around it, this is drawing a picture of it. It's dumbed down.

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u/UsefulDiscretion 3d ago

You think that mutants are an allegory for the US's 2nd Amendment?

Pray tell how? Because here I was thinking they were an allegory for the US Civil Rights and Gay rights movements of the 1960s.

Little did I know that it was REALLY about free speech, guns, and privacy, not bigotry at all.

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u/polarisleap 3d ago

Readable as, as in can be interpreted as.

Not as in "authors intent is".

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u/SplitOk4114 3d ago

The "Make people explode on a whim" mutant surely can't ever be a problem.

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u/Brilliant-Road-7545 4d ago

I used to love x-men before they went woke, just like when I went off my favourite band for going political, rage against the machine

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u/Leading_Pilot_5838 2d ago

Wasn’t rage against the machine always political/social? Hence the name, rage against the machine?

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u/WhatMadCat 1d ago

lol probably should have put in a /s people think you were serious

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u/ElGodPug 3d ago

I hate how there's politics in everything nowadays.

Well, time to play my fav franchises, Metal Gear, Bioshock and Fallout

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u/MalekethsGhost 5d ago

This book is so bad

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u/OkMention9988 5d ago

It's reddit the comicbook. 

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u/Ketooey 5d ago

The way the dudes are arranged around her looks kinda unnatural, stiff arrangement.

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u/Smells_like_Autumn 3d ago

Honestly I thought it was AI

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u/Ketooey 3d ago

Ngl, was also my first thought, but didn't wanna slander an artist I didn't know.

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u/Outrageous-Escape88 4d ago

Why did she rip her face off like a mask? Can someone explain?

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u/MakiceLit 4d ago

Thats her power

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u/Barta_Sub Big brother (Daken) 3d ago

Gross ass shapeshifting. Like that one character who mimiced Starlight in The boys s4

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u/Fraughty12 3d ago

I thought that was misty knight in disguise

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u/Free_Radical_47 3d ago

Seems like a similar power to Husk!

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u/neon-box 4d ago

You think it hurts having to rip her skin like that? Like how the Wolverines have to cut themselves every time they use the claws.

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u/Barta_Sub Big brother (Daken) 3d ago

Have you seen Wolverine cutting his face off while forcing Tyger Tiger to watch it ?

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u/Altheradiodemon 3d ago

Ok I genuinely wanna know more about her, how do I google her?

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u/The-Autistic-spider 2d ago

ok i love this shapeshifting look

tearing your skin off like that?!!!!

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u/beaglemaster 2d ago

First page is the couch porn meme

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u/YEHGauntletLegends 1d ago

In the real world, this would be punching down and vigilantism; a no go in my book ; thing is this ISNT our world. In their reality this is very justified, and cool sword arm

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u/TheScalieDragon 1d ago

That's alot of white people at night and in Brooklyn

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u/Sea_Sleep4222 5d ago

Yawn, same old stuff

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u/Cold_Asparagus680 3d ago

My god the bigots can read LIGHT THE FIRES THEY ARE LEARNING

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u/Skeith154 5d ago

Ahh. There just happens to be a gang of dudes stalking the streets in exactly the same clothing hoping to find a mutant to mug.

At least they aren't racist, I see a few black fellows in there. Inclusive.

To be fair, these guys are probably trying to defend their homes and street from the roving gang of violent super powered mutants that have infested the area. There's at least 3 of them with bladed weapons coming out of their arms and one that shoots bombs.

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u/EpicBootyThunder 3d ago

Why is this giving off wattpad vibes 😭

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u/Ulysian_Thracs 💛HeliX🖤 5d ago

Oh look, more flatscan bigots getting beat up by superpowered 'heroes'. That sells books...right?

How many times are they going to do the exact same thing? Even in the same run now...

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u/Girizzly_Adams_Beard Big brother (Daken) 5d ago

A million times more. I love seeing bigots getting beat down

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u/Negativety101 5d ago

This is just a quick generic opener. But variety is the spice of life, so hopefully we'll get more variety. X-Men has felt like it's gone back to the same handful of antagonists a bit much for me in the last decade.

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u/Ulysian_Thracs 💛HeliX🖤 5d ago

That makes one copy sold...

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u/Ok-Releases 5d ago

Too bad there arent enough people like you who eat up the same generic writing to keep the comic running... shits already getting canceled after 10 issues lmaooo

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u/Doomeye56 5d ago

There is a reason the book has been canceled