Writer: Erica Schultz
Artist: Valentina Pinti
Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg
Letterer: Cory Petit
Cover Artists: Elena Casagrande & Edgar Delgado; Dan Jurgens, Brett Breeding & Alex Sinclair; Anand Ramcheron; Nogi San; Pablo Villalobos; Rickie Yagawa & Tamra Bonvillain
Designer: Jay Bowen
Editors: Cy Pedro Beltran, Mark Basso, Tom Brevoort & CB Cebulski
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Price: $3.99
Release Date: October 8, 2025
People have maligned, segregated, attacked, and hunted Mutants. Orchis tried to wipe them out entirely. One man fights on their behalf. His name is Revelation. Laura Kinney stands with him because she believes he won't let them down. So when the government sends superpowered people to assassinate him—villains who don't care about collateral damage—she kills them instead.
Laura won't stop fighting for Revelation. Whatever lay in the past, he has gifted the Mutants a paradise free from persecution. Yet no place can ever be perfect. Does anything worry Laura about her life in the Revelation Territories? And who does she have to share it with? Let’s leap into Laura Kinney: Sabretooth #1 and see!
Story
No matter how many times she tells herself she is safe, Laura Kinney knows she isn’t. She lost the man she loved. And she knows she can lose everything again. So when Laura learns that Gabby and Akihiro are planning to leave the Revelation Territories, she requests a meetup. Before he died, Zane gave her a son. Laura couldn't protect Zane. But she can remove Alex from the danger that encircles her leader.
In Laura Kinney: Sabretooth #1, Laura has adopted her late husband's moniker. She serves Revelation as a Seraph. Once again, she acts as a living weapon for others. But at least she fights for a cause she believes in and protects someone who keeps all Mutants safe. Yet life in Revelation’s Inner Circle seems more dangerous than idyllic. And although she asserts that Revelation protects the Mutants who disagree with him, she believes Gabby, Akihiro, and their friends are safer outside his Territories than in.
Erica Schultz’s story targets idealists with a cause. It reminds us of the costs of raising banners and shouting rallying cries. After the Gene Bomb detonated, Laura had to make a choice. When people started dying or mutating, they once again blamed the Mutants for their troubles. So, Laura swore her allegiance to Doug Ramsey over the government that had let people malign, segregate, attack, and hunt down her kind.
Perhaps Zane was part of that choice. But her husband is gone. While Gabby has Akihiro, Sage, and others, Laura only has Alex. So, she calls on her family one last time. Whatever the future brings, she doesn't want her son to pay for her decisions in Laura Kinney: Sabretooth #1.
Art
Valentina Pinti portrays the Mutants’ freedom as they relax together in an illuminated riverside patio. Silhouettes climb the distant bridge and sneak past a guard patrolling the barriers blocking every lane. Gabby and Akihiro reach the abandoned shipyard first. Then Laura strides beneath the brick and wrought iron arbor, while her son crouches behind a box outside.
Rachelle Rosenberg contrasts the purple sky with the green ground. Like the plants that burst through pavement and crack walls, scars line Gabby's tanned face. Orange and red fill the background as she vents her anger, matching what occurs when Akihiro loses his composure. Alex’s blonde hair links him with his mother’s yellow-and-brown outfit. But it also links him with Revelation. Laura’s white, yellow, and gold leader glows amid the verdant plant life in his yellow-and green palace. Yet, like her and Wolverine, their dialogue radiates little warmth in Laura Kinney: Sabretooth #1.
Cory Petit fills white dialogue balloons with black uppercase letters that grow bold for intonation, enlarge for raised voices, and rarely shrink. Laura shares her thoughts with yellow words in brown narrative boxes. Psychic communication appears in puffy clouds, while sniffs and snikts fill an evening when everything seems up in the air. Thanks to Marvel Comics for providing a review copy.
Final Thoughts
Families are difficult. Still, they’re supposed to keep you safe. Laura’s life has been an endless struggle. So, when she found someone to share it with in the safest place she could find, she took it. But Laura is paying for that now. Zane is dead. Gabby hates her. Logan is a stranger. Laura Kinney: Sabretooth #1 is all about family, and how the best decisions can return to haunt us.
Rating 9.2/10
To look inside see my review at Comic Book Dispatch.
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