Given recent events, I thought it was only fair to revisit this topic now that I am fairly familiar with X-23...

It's odd, really. That character's been around for what, 10-12 years now, and I had heard of her, but she was part of a scene I'd largely lost track of, and on its face, let's be honest, she sounded like the kind of concept you could trust 21st-century Marvel's management to screw up. (And they kind of did, I mean, NYX, what the fuck is going on there? Why do they keep letting Joe Q out of his cage? I digress.) I also hadn't seen the pair of late-series X-Men Evolution eps she was originally invented for.

The only reason that state of affairs changed, really, was that I won a Kindle Fire at random a couple months ago and ComiXology happened to have a deal running on a compiled version of the original X-23 comic miniseries. That led to the second miniseries and then to the last four or five issues of her now-canceled "ongoing" solo book, which were the only issues available through them at the time (they've since released issues 1-6, but now the start-of-the-semester flush is over and I'm too cheap to pick them up).

So basically, you can blame Weapon of Choice on issues 18 through 20 of X-23 Volume 2, in which she appears in the Good-Hearted But Slightly Confused By People form she takes in the "present-day" segments, and Decapre is still not supposed to be her. :) (If anything, Decapre got a slightly better deal - I mean, she's a clone too, but at least she was decanted an adult and nobody involved in Shadolu's cloned weapon project actually had anything personally against her.)

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