X-23: Innocence Lost (v1 #1-6). What if Weapon X were retold with a vulnerable girl taking the role of Wolverine? That's the basic premise of Innocence Lost by Kyle & Yost, but the story goes far beyond that. The scientific team is more amoral and manipulative, but with a few characters who we root for, creating a much more deeply textured story. And, it's really the characters and emotions that set this origin story apart: issue by issue, the tension ratchets up, and we can't believe the horribleness can continue ... but it does. 
 A wonderful beginning to X-23's story that explains how she became the wounded girl that we saw in NYX. My only complaint is the captioned use of a letter spread out over the six issues, which ends up being distracting. Otherwise, this is a pitch-perfect story. [9/10] 
 X-23: Target X. Kyle & Yost's follow-up nicely dovetails with the "Innocence Lost" series, picking up both the chronology and the characters. It's terrific seeing Laura interact with the real-est family that she has, while the battle against arch-nemesis Kimora is wonderful too. With all that said, there are some structural flaws in this volume: the scattered timeline of the first issue is very hard to follow and the frame sequence between Steve and Matt is mostly annoying. [7/10]. 
 Captain Universe / X-23. An awful take on the uni-power, where it's an intelligent, talking, thinking entity. Combined with that we get a largely non-vocal Laura, who is a plot device, not an actual character. The result is dull and meaingless -- just a step toward the next event in the crossover [1/10]. 
 [It's definitely worth rereading New X-Men: Childhood's End here, which I did, and perhaps worth rereading the first Kyle + Yost X-Force, which I didn't.] 
 Women of Marvel. A better one-off, because it actually focuses on Laura's character, even if it gets too artsy-fartsy at times [6/10]. 
 The Killing Dream (X-23 1-3). I love this comic's focus on Laura's full continuity. The contrast of her time with the New X-Men and with X-Force is particularly strong. It's also great seeing her interact with several different X-people and really be her own person. 
 On the downside, this story is messily meshed with what I assume must have been the Wolverine-in-hell story, and it doesn't make as much sense without that. There's also a bit too much mind-meddling and dreams, much like in Liu's "Women of Marvel" one-off, and that's less than thrilling. 
 Still, this is an interesting start. If Liu sticks with the great characterization and the great continuity and not with the annoying mind games and the annoying crossovers, this will be a strong series [6+/10]. 
 Judgement. A short starring X-23 and Ghost Rider. They fight some racist thugs. Laura gets a tiny bit of characterization. [5/10] 
 Overall, a varied but good collection. Kyle and Yost rock, which is no surprise given their track record on other X-Men comics. Liu is OK. A bunch of shorts are barely worth reading. The collection is definitely worth reading, though, and I look forward to the next.