I don't agree. I think Majorie Liu's doing a great job. We're seeing all the monologue boxes for Laura now because--duh--this is the X-23 series. Of course it's going to show what she's thinking. She thought alot before, just didn't say it out loud. 
 
I am loving the address to the Hellion/X-23 relationship. Hellion isn't dropping his alpha attitude...he's always acted a little different around girls he likes. Remember Sofia Mantega? Yeah, the girl who said 'I like you when we're alone. With others...'. He likes Laura, ergo he is not a jacka** to her. 
 
I agree on the brown haired Hellion part. At first I didn't notice his hands were missing, so when he came in the room, I was like oooh who's this boy? I was excited when I realized. It's strange, the colorist got Laura's eyes wrong on the first issue, and Hellion totally A+++. Second issue, Laura's eyes are correctly green, and now Hellion's got brown hair. WTF? But that's the colorist, not the writer or illustrator. 
 
I'm not terribly excited at the hell plot, but I'm very interested to see Laura is going to fight for Hellion's life. I liked that he said she was his best friend; I think that's because she's becoming that. He realizes she's the only one that does not treat him differently because of his new disability, and it means alot to him. His other friends are probably treating him weird; this was shown in Issue 1 when the Cuckoo (Celeste I believe) tried to hand-feed him. That's a little degrading of her, seeing as he is a TK. 
 
Some events were a little strange, I didn't care much for the homeless shelter, and I noted Laura seemed to be injured for the whole issue, when she can heal from gunshot wounds to the head in about a minute. That wasn't accurately represented. I thought Hellion walking in and lying down dead stupid; there should have been a bit of a fight. What happened to his shielding himself, like he used to in the old days?
 
But I like how she writes X-23, I like the internal monologue, I like how she writes Hellion, and she gets ten thumbs up from me for touching on their relationship (I'm borrowing some thumbs...don't ask).

" I don't agree. I think Majorie Liu's doing a great job. We're seeing all the monologue boxes for Laura now because--duh--this is the X-23 series. Of course it's going to show what she's thinking. She thought alot before, just didn't say it out loud. 
 
I am loving the address to the Hellion/X-23 relationship. Hellion isn't dropping his alpha attitude...he's always acted a little different around girls he likes. Remember Sofia Mantega? Yeah, the girl who said 'I like you when we're alone. With others...'. He likes Laura, ergo he is not a jacka** to her. 
 
I agree on the brown haired Hellion part. At first I didn't notice his hands were missing, so when he came in the room, I was like oooh who's this boy? I was excited when I realized. It's strange, the colorist got Laura's eyes wrong on the first issue, and Hellion totally A+++. Second issue, Laura's eyes are correctly green, and now Hellion's got brown hair. WTF? But that's the colorist, not the writer or illustrator. 
 
I'm not terribly excited at the hell plot, but I'm very interested to see Laura is going to fight for Hellion's life. I liked that he said she was his best friend; I think that's because she's becoming that. He realizes she's the only one that does not treat him differently because of his new disability, and it means alot to him. His other friends are probably treating him weird; this was shown in Issue 1 when the Cuckoo (Celeste I believe) tried to hand-feed him. That's a little degrading of her, seeing as he is a TK. 
 
Some events were a little strange, I didn't care much for the homeless shelter, and I noted Laura seemed to be injured for the whole issue, when she can heal from gunshot wounds to the head in about a minute. That wasn't accurately represented. I thought Hellion walking in and lying down dead stupid; there should have been a bit of a fight. What happened to his shielding himself, like he used to in the old days?  But I like how she writes X-23, I like the internal monologue, I like how she writes Hellion, and she gets ten thumbs up from me for touching on their relationship (I'm borrowing some thumbs...don't ask). "

1. She didn't use to "think a lot". She was running on instinct. If all the pages when she was stalking Hellion or sulking or slaughtering Purifiers were littered with thought captions, what would be in them?
2. All guys act different around girls they like. But remember when Julian said "I can't stop thinking about a girl who literally scares me"? We're getting none of the second half of that sentence. Marjorie Liu isn't doing justice to the darker side of the character.
3. Mercury's his best friend. She's also X-23's best friend. And she probably knows best of the New X-Men about ostracism and image issues. Where the hell is she?
4. If you didn't like the rest plot, how can you possibly approve of the issue based on Hellion talking to her for three panels?

1. Okay, so what's running through her head when she's crouching at Hellion's bedside watching him sleep? What information is she learning? She must have built up a huge amount of intel on how to slaughter everyone in the X-Mansion by now. Or was she engaged in a massive series of internal monologues, as you seem to suggest? If so, it seems to me that she would eventually have come to a conclusion of some kind - but it took the intervention of a romance novelist to even get her to start up a conversation. Brooding doesn't necessarily entail contemplation. It seems slightly more likely that she was just following him around because his scent and physical features appeal to the right part of her animalistic brain. As she said towards the end of Kyle and Yost's run, she doesn't understand what she's feeling.
2. See my post in the Hellion forum thread which got kinda derailed.

I knowing nothing about X-23 picked up this series and have been enjoying it, I personally am not caring for the Wolverine Goes to Hell story being in this and if Wolverine story lines are just gonna be spilling over into this title, I may bail out.