Laura Kinney: Sabretooth #2 Review

 

Writer: Erica Schultz

Artist: Valentina Pinti

Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg

Letterer: Cory Petit

Cover Artists: Elena Casagrande & Edgar Delgado; Jacopo Camagni; Nimit Malavia; Ashley Witter

Designer: Jay Bowen

Editors: Cy Pedro Beltran, Mark Basso, Tom Brevoort & CB Cebulski

Publisher: Marvel Comics

Price: $3.99

Release Date: November 5, 2025

 

Mutants finally live free of Human persecution. Laura Kinney serves Revelation, the man who helped make that happen. As his Seraph, she protects him from the ailing US government and anyone else who sends agents to assassinate him. But life as a Seraph isn’t easy. Laura has lost her husband in Revelation’s service. While carrying out her duties, she cannot protect Alex, the son Zane gave her. And even when she is in Revelation’s compound, other Mutants can use Alex, who has yet to manifest any powers, to manipulate her.

 

So, Laura forges a desperate plan. She consigns her son to her siblings’ care. Will Revelation abide by Laura’s decision? And will her glorious leader discover Laura killed Hellion to keep him from blackmailing her? Let’s leap into Laura Kinney: Sabretooth #2 and see!

 

Story

When Revelation next requests her presence, he tells Laura to bring Alex back. Furthermore, he doesn't want any Mutants to leave his territories. He is especially worried about Mutants fleeing to Arakko. He wants her to lead Vanisher and a contingent of guards to Helicarrierville and prevent them from leaving his territory. Revelation insists that he only wants the best for the Mutants. But he also warns Laura not to fail.

 

While Laura Kinney: Sabretooth #2 begins in Revelation’s compound, the bulk of the story occurs in Helicarrierville. Laura, Vanisher, and the guards arrive to prevent anyone from leaving via Sage’s teleportation gate. However, Gabby isn’t going to stand still for that. Erica Schultz packs her story with action as the Mutants attempt to leave and Laura tries to prevent them. But while the plot highlights the rivalry between the two sisters, the battle seems part of a larger contest between Revelation and Apocalypse.

 

This series began with Laura extolling the virtues of life in Revelation’s territory while attempting to help her child escape it. Yet amid this paradise Revelation has created, Gabby and Laura constantly fight. Their brother Akihiro tries to help the sisters get along. Yet when Laura tries to reunite her family in Laura Kinney: Sabretooth #2, Gabby and Akihiro try to keep her son under their care. As in a divorce, Alex becomes a casualty of a feuding family, with contesting adults fighting for the right to raise him. 

 

 

 

Art

Valentina Pinti opens with Laura approaching Revelation in his long, narrow throne room. While she wears her functional, one-piece outfit, Revelation drapes himself in robes that drag on the floor. Revelation may have hoped to unite the Mutants under his rule. But as he walks between pillars evoking Sentinel legs, he stands between Laura and her father. His words conjure a black-and-white memory of her with Zane and Alex. Regardless of how this happy image compares with the reality of her marriage, it contrasts with Laura’s relationships with Gabby and Wolverine.

 

After the yellow that dominated Revelation’s compound, Rachelle Rosenberg portrays the crowds outside Helicarrierville amid a hazy purple. As Sage addresses the would-be emigrants atop a green mound, the makeshift arch behind her looks composed of repurposed components. After Laura, Vanisher, and Revelation’s guards appear within a starburst of light blue energy, red lightning shoots from the arch. Rainbows melt in the red energy field. Sage’s yellow glasses form a link with Laura’s outfit as she strives to get her fellow mutant to see things her way in Laura Kinney: Sabretooth #2.

 

 

 

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. Revelation makes a convincing argument with white letters in black balloons. Sound effects accompany internecine fighting, a non-football-related head injury, and the teleportation gate's activation. Thanks to Marvel Comics for providing a review copy. 

 

 

 

Final Thoughts

While Revelation's cause may be noble, he manipulates Laura, works Wolverine like a puppet, and hires Vanisher to enforce his will. Then again, Revelation ordered his wife's death for acting against him. Life may be the paradise many Mutants yearned for. But Revelation’s need to control everything dooms relationships in Kinney: Sabretooth #2.

 

Rating 9.4/10

 

To look inside see my review at Comic Book Dispatch. 

Laura Kinney: Sabretooth #1 Review

 

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.