{"title":"X 23 TARGET X (2007)","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"htoo-x-23-target-x-2","title":"X-23: Target X #2 [VG]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGrade: VG\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"body-note\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote: Stock Image\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIssue Number: 2\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 2007-03-01\u003cbr\u003eWriter: \u003cbr\u003eArtist: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eX-23’s bloodstained past continues to unfold as superstar Top Cow artists Mike Choi and Sonia Oback join the team! The hunt continues for X-23 as she tries to make a normal life for herself. But can she escape her violent past when not only the Facility that created her is hunting her, but S.H.I.E.L.D. as well? X-23 is about to collide head first with the Marvel Universe, and sparks will fly as CAPTAIN AMERICA and DAREDEVIL join the chase! ","brand":"Marvel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43734026027087,"sku":"CV-NNJ9-BOX480","price":2.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1064\/5512\/files\/marvel-comics-x-23-target-x-2-vg-1199426160.jpg?v=1761262557"},{"product_id":"mesp-x-23-target-x-3","title":"X-23: Target X #3 [VG]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGrade: VG\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"body-note\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote: Stock Image\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIssue Number: 3\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 2007-04-01\u003cbr\u003eWriter: \u003cbr\u003eArtist: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eX-23’s bloody past continues to unfold, and the man called Wolverine is haunting her every step of the way! What is Trigger Scent, and what are the Facility’s plans to re-capture X-23? And what does the Kingpin of Crime have to do with it? Captain America and Daredevil are along for the ride as X-23 digs her claws deeper into the Marvel Universe, and not everyone is going to make it out alive.SpoilersX-23 continues to be held captive and questioned by Captain America and Matt Murdock. She tells them more about the Trigger scent that makes her kill anyone marked with it. The conditioning began when she was eight years old. She tells how she was used to kill an assassin that was blackmailing Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin of crime.Back when she went to her Aunt Debbie's and was hanging out with her cousin, Megan, X-23 was discovered. Her aunt's boyfriend turned out to be a Facility agent. The plan was put in place for X-23 to kill them with use of the Trigger. The agent was preparing a kettle of tea mixed with the scent. He calls Megan and asks them to pick up a prescription for her mother. On the way home, X-23 sees a newscast of the announcement by Professor Charles Xavier that they were mutants. X-23 catches a glimpse of Wolverine on a television.As Megan and X-23 arrive, Megan accidentally knocks into the agent and spills the tea on him. As she helps to pick him up, he begins to panic, hysterically asking \"Where is X-23?!\" Marked with the Trigger, X-23's eyes go red as she pops out her claws.","brand":"Marvel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43734026125391,"sku":"CV-X3VG-BOX480","price":2.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1064\/5512\/files\/marvel-comics-x-23-target-x-3-vg-1199426159.jpg?v=1761262555"},{"product_id":"6tx-x-23-target-x-4","title":"X-23: Target X #4 [VG]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGrade: VG\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"body-note\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote: Stock Image\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIssue Number: 4\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 2007-05-01\u003cbr\u003eWriter: \u003cbr\u003eArtist: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eX-23's new life comes burning down all around her as the Facility makes its move to take her back. She's faced overwhelming odds before, but not like this. Now X-23 has to save innocent lives instead of take them, and she has to do it with the one person she cannot defeat gunning for her. Who is Kimura? The beginning of the end starts here!SpoilersDesmond, the agent from the Facility posing as X-23's boyfriend, tries to abort the mission as he has had the trigger scent spilled on him. There is no stopping X-23 as she makes quick work of him. Suddenly Megan recalls when X-23 told her about the trigger. She runs upstairs to see if her mother had any of the tea. Megan grabs her mother and they try hiding in the bathroom. As X-23 hacks away at the door, they both get in the shower in hopes of washing off the scent. Just as the last traces wash down the drain, X-23 returns to normal but \"smells\" that Kimura as arrived.X-23 tells Captain America and Matt Murdock about her first meeting of Kimura and how she was designed to be her handler. Kimura was a cruel and vicious woman that X-23 could not hurt. She took great pleasure in punishing X-23 at every opportunity, regardless if she succeeded or failed in a mission.Continuing with the story, X-23, Megan, and Debbie go down to the basement. X-23 cuts a water pipe which unleashes cold water on them. X-23 tells them to stay down there regardless what they hear upstairs and not to make a sound.One by one, X-23 brutally takes out all the agents that come inside searching for them. Just as it appears that they are all taken down, Kimura appears and grabs X-23 from behind","brand":"Marvel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43734026158159,"sku":"CV-HS9H-BOX480","price":2.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1064\/5512\/files\/marvel-comics-x-23-target-x-4-vg-1199426158.jpg?v=1761262551"},{"product_id":"cpm2-x-23-target-x-5","title":"X-23: Target X #5 [FINE]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGrade: FINE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"body-note\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote: Stock Image\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIssue Number: 5\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 2007-06-01\u003cbr\u003eWriter: \u003cbr\u003eArtist: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow do you defeat an opponent you can't hurt, much less kill? How do you fight someone that's brutalized you all your life, and enjoys it? X-23 had better figure it out quick, because the assault on X and her newfound family isn't over. Kimura has just entered the battle, and she won't stop until X-23 has been returned to the Facility and her family is dead.SpoilersX-23 continues to tell Captain America and Matt Murdock what happened to her aunt and cousin.X-23 lies on the floor after Kimura snapped her neck. Kimura asks her how many people do they need to kill before she realizes that she's a weapon and not a person. She handcuffs X-23 to her and drags her down into the basement. Kimura is going to force her to watch her kill Debbie and Megan.Debbie is still unconscious and Kimura prepares to shoot Megan with a crossbow. As the arrow is shot, X-23 manages to pop her claws and slice the arrow in half in mid air. She then tries to slice through the handcuffs. Kimura tells her that they are adamantium. Looking at Megan in the eyes, X-23 begins to beat on Kimura. It's all pointless as Kimura was designed so that she couldn't be hurt by X-23. Grabbing part of the railing to the stairs, Kimura begins to strike X-23 over and over telling her that she's lost.Kimura pins X-23 down and asks her if she should put her finger through Megan's brain or heart. X-23 begins to plead with Kimura. She says she'll return to the facility if she lets them go. Kimura tells her that she's already going back. She has to decide how Megan will die. Kimura then tells X-23 that she could always kill her and make it more merciful as she begins pushing her finger through Megan's chest. Suddenly there is a splash of blood on Megan face.X-23 did not kill Megan. Rather she cut off her own hand. Now able to escape her handcuff, she places it on a pipe near the wall. Kimura is enraged. X-23 tells Megan and Debbie to grab her duffel bag and anything they really need. They have three minutes to get out of the house. Kimura yells that they're dead. Everyone X-23 loves will be dead. Slicing through a gas pipe, X-23 causes the house to explode.Captain America mentions that he remembers S.H.I.E.L.D. being called in. They found pieces of advanced weaponry and the remains of 27 bodies. X-23 asks if Kimura was found. Captain America says no.As they drive away from their house, Debbie tells X-23 to stop the car. She tells her that after X-23 saved Megan from the man that took her and Sarah brought her home, she gave her a picture of X-23. She says that Laura was able to make Sarah love again. She had been hurt by their father and couldn't love anyone. X-23 saved her. She saved them all.In Sacramento in a motel, X-23 is preparing some passports for Megan and Debbie. Megan asks X-23 if she needs one, and she says no. Megan then takes the passport picture of Sarah.Later at the U.S.\/Canadian border in Washington, Laura tells them that they have enough money to get to a safe house. She says there's more money there and to keep moving for the first month. Megan asks if she's going with them. Laura says she can't. Kimura will never stop looking for her. She can't risk their lives again. Megan asks how will Laura find them. X-23 doesn't answer, she merely says good-bye. As she turns to leave, Megan stops her. She gives her a locket that she was planning on giving her later. Inside is a picture of Laura's mom on one side and one of her on the other. Laura thanks her and embraces her. That's the last time she ever saw them.Murdock asks her what she did next. X-23 says she then went after \"him.\" She went after the man that started it all and made her a weapon. She stands outside the gate of the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning.","brand":"Marvel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43734026190927,"sku":"CV-Q25X-BOX480","price":2.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1064\/5512\/files\/marvel-comics-x-23-target-x-5-fine-1199426157.jpg?v=1761262548"},{"product_id":"nh93-x-23-target-x-6","title":"X-23: Target X #6 [FINE]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGrade: FINE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"body-note\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote: Stock Image\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIssue Number: 6\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 2007-07-01\u003cbr\u003eWriter: \u003cbr\u003eArtist: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Facility has taken everything from X-23… her mother, her new family, every chance for a normal life… but now, X-23 is going to make it all stop. She’s going back to the beginning, to the man whose DNA led her down this path, the man she blames for it all… Wolverine.SpoilersCaptain America continues to interrogate X-23, asking her if she went to the Xavier institute to find Wolverine. She says yes. Matt Murdock is going over some items connected to X-23 and finds a book. He asks her if the book is Pinocchio and if it belongs to X-23. Laura says that it’s Pinocchio but that it belonged to her mother who used to read it to her, but she’d never tell her why. Matt picks up a blood-covered letter next to the book and asks her what it says since the blood prevents him from reading it. Laura says it was a letter her mother gave to her, but she can’t read it either because the blood washed the words away. Captain America gets back to his questioning and asks what happened at the Xavier Institute. X-23 tells him.At first she couldn’t find Wolverine because there were too many scents from other mutants. When she finally did find him, ten days later, he was with someone else. By day twenty-four she had been able to get close to him, avoiding the schools telepaths by waiting until they were focused on other people. She didn’t actually reach him though, because the wind shifted and gave her away. That night, he left the school and she followed him. She tracked him (or he led her) all the way to the US\/Canadian border where he set up a campfire and waited. She got in close, but he already knew she was there. He told her to stop messing around and she attacked. He tried to talk her down, but she kept coming at him. At first, he didn’t fight back, just avoided all her attempts to slash and stab him. She managed to cut him with the claw in her foot and he tried to tell her that he’d just heal like she would, but she used her other claws to cut his throat. After that, he got mad and unsheathed his own claws, telling her that he’d make her listen. They traded slashes but every time X-23 stabbed Wolverine, she took some dirt and smeared it in his wound. After a few stabs, Wolverine realized what she was doing.She was using the dirt to stop the wounds from fully healing so he would bleed out. By the time he figured it out though, he was feeling the effects of the blood loss and he was slow and disoriented. She got him down and had claws to his throat and her own head. She told him that they were both weapons and that they had to be destroyed. In response, Logan said that if she wanted to kill him, that was fine, but he wouldn’t let her kill herself. He moved her other hand from her head to his own but she kept saying that they both had to die. He said that he might, but that she had had no choice in her actions and they weren’t her fault. He also said that Laura’s mother had sent him a letter telling him everything that had happened, and that it wasn’t her fault. Laura stood up and bought away her claws and started to cry and told Logan that they made her kill her mother, and he got up off the ground and said he was sorry.A little later, Laura had stopped trying to kill Logan and they were sitting by the campfire and talking. Logan told her that her mother had sent the letter in case she didn’t make it out, and by the time he’d gotten it, Laura was already gone from the facility. He told her that she had a choice, the letter her mother had sent was in Logan’s jacket. She could find out what her mother had said if she wanted. Logan then told her that she could stay at the Xavier Institute and that Professor X could help her like he’d helped Logan. As they were talking, they both heard the sound of helicopters and immediately sprang to their feet. X-23 thought it was the facility, but Wolverine knew better. It was SHIELD. Wolverine jumped into the line of fire and took some bullets for X-23 while telling her to run. She ran, but not fast or far enough. Captain America took her down with his shield and placed her under arrest. In New York City, Daredevil swung into his house just as the phone rang. Captain America was calling Matt Murdock and asking him for a favor.Back in the present, where X-23 is being questioned, Matt Murdock tells Captain America that he should have left the girl with Wolverine and that by arresting her, he had taken away her best chance for some sort of normal life. Captain America justifies his actions by pointing out that Laura has killed hundreds of people. Matt lifts up the letter that Logan had given X-23 from her mother and tells Captain America that in the letter Sarah takes the blame for everything, all the murders, even the executions of other guilty parties at the facility. Steve says that means nothing, but Matt says that it does because everyone Steve is after is dead and Laura is just as much of victim as the people she killed. Steve says that X-23 has to be held accountable and Matt responds by saying that SHIELD won’t hold her accountable. They won’t put her on trial or in jail, they’ll just use her like a weapon. Steve says that the conversation is over but Matt tries to stop him from taking X-23 in. Steve says that he only needed Matt to see if the girl was lying and now that she’s confessed, he can make her face justice.Twelve hours later, Captain America is driving X-23 to a SHIELD substation and telling her that he has to take her in. Along the way though, he realizes that Daredevil was right and has a change of heart. At a greyhound bus station, Laura asks him why he’s letting her go and he tells her that he doesn’t want people to keep using her as a weapon and he wants her to try to build a normal life if that’s possible. He tells her to get on the bus and go to Logan so he can help. On the bus, Laura overhears a mother looking at animal flash cards with her son. The mother holds up a picture of an eagle’s claw and asks the boy what it’s called. The boy says, “talon.” X-23 opens her bag and pulls out her mother’s letter so she can read it.","brand":"Marvel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43734026256463,"sku":"CV-BA9V-BOX480","price":2.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1064\/5512\/files\/marvel-comics-x-23-target-x-6-fine-1199426156.jpg?v=1761262546"},{"product_id":"x-23-target-x-2-fn-vf","title":"X-23: Target X #2 [FN\/VF]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGrade: FN\/VF\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body-note\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote: Stock Image\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIssue Number: 2\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 2007-03-01\u003cbr\u003eWriter: \u003cbr\u003eArtist: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eX-23’s bloodstained past continues to unfold as superstar Top Cow artists Mike Choi and Sonia Oback join the team! 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