Originally Posted by
Ambaryerno
The main problem with Laura's introduction in NXM #20 is that her introduction in the books themselves was kind of confused and chaotic.
Originally, NYX was planned to be an ongoing series, and presumably had that carried through Laura would have remained with Kiden Nixon's group, at least until everything got relaunched after Decimation/House of M. But Quesada's failure to keep to the schedule (there were considerable delays between issues) led to the book being cancelled after the first arc, essentially restructuring it as a miniseries. However, Marvel needed to get Laura into a book SOMEWHERE, so handed her off to Claremont. Claremont never really got a handle on her, and then House of M hit upending his run.
After House of M, Kyle and Yost took over New X-Men. I don't know if Marvel handed Laura back to them or if they called "dibs." Regardless, they chose to pretty much ignore what Claremont was doing with her, which didn't gel with their own take on her characterization, and only a clumsy handwave that Logan was just "pretending" not to know her in Claremont's book for the X-Men's benefit for...reasons to explain the situation. The problem is, there's nothing to establish context for readers who hadn't followed any of Laura's previous books. Usually there's an editor's note (*See Issue Whatever) pointing to an issue. but there's not even any sort of reference like that. It's not helped that Target X #1, (December, 2006) which established how Laura and Logan really first met, and who she would be looking for in San Francisco, wasn't released until a year AFTER NXM #20 (November, 2005). So KYost evidently had that planned, but for whatever reason that story wouldn't be released until after the issues that alluded to it.