Laura Kinney: X-23 Appreciation 2019

[Jumpyshark]

https://www.instagram.com/p/B3SyKLDA...d=u1daqc5gyyd7

Awesome art, though I must say that the belt of this era is looking rather quaint/dated these days!

Love the piercings and asymmetrical gloves. Great piece.

[Dthirds3]

Fallen angles 1 variant
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[Ambaryerno]

Fallen angles 1 variant
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Nice, but I'm wanting to see something of Laura in the issue itself.

[Digifiend]

Naughty Gabby!

That's fanart, by the way, not an upcoming cover.

[Dthirds3]

Naughty Gabby!

That's fanart, by the way, not an upcoming cover.

Gabby as secrets mastermind behind everything, it makes too much sence

[Jumpyshark]

I really hope that cover leads to work for the artist. It's a wickedly clever cover in how it sells the joke, and it's a gorgeous piece to boot!

[Mia]

Fallen angles 1 variant
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Lovely drawing it ties into my preference for less is more. I find it better than the other one he did. It's softer and more elegant and hides just how dangerous she is. Which IMHO is more effective and speaks more to the power and strength she represents. As the old saying goes, a badass is simply a badass. A badass never talks about being a badass.

[Havok83]

[Dthirds3]

She seems to be getting a lot of variant covers, wonder if it means anything ?

[Purplevit]

She seems to be getting a lot of variant covers, wonder if it means anything ?

It means that she sells books.

[Havok83]

She seems to be getting a lot of variant covers, wonder if it means anything ?

shes one of 3 characters advertised for the launch issue of the series, not to mention shes been a fairly popular solo hero

[XCE]

She seems to be getting a lot of variant covers, wonder if it means anything ?

Like someone said above, it's simply because of sales. These are retailer variants, so it's nothing to do with what's inside the book. X-23 is simply the best seller among the characters featured in the book.

I feel like I've explained what retailer variants are several times before, but just in case: Retailers (mostly online comic book stores) can create their own covers to upcoming comic books as long as they order at least 4000 copies (at least that used to be the number, haven't checked recently) and the cover art gets approved by Marvel. Those books are then sold exclusively by the retailer(s) in question. They are not distributed to other comic book stores along with Marvel's "own" variants, so you won't find them in your local store. They are usually priced much higher than regular cover price because they're "rare" and aimed at the collector's market. The Junggeun Yoon variant shown a few posts above is being sold for $35, for example.

[topfueluhl]

Does anyone know who the artist is? I can't make it out.

[Dthirds3]

Does anyone know who the artist is? I can't make it out.

Shannon maer.

[Mia]

Incidentally I just realized why the face on Maer's drawing looked so familiar. It's Emilia Clark aka Daenerys Targaryen from the HBO series Game of Thrones. Dany's one of my favourite literary heroines, there is a strong corelation between her and Laura.

It means that she sells books.

And she has a hard core enthusiastic fan base that will buy anything with her on it.