Uncanny X-Men #21 annotations
UNCANNY X-MEN vol 6 #21
“Of Mice and Mutants”
Writer: Gail Simone
Artist: Luciano Vecchio
Colour artist: Matthew Wilson
Letterer: Clayton Cowles
Editor: Tom Brevoort
COVER: Wolverine and Ransom at a comic convention. We’ll come to which one below.
This is the final issue of Uncanny X-Men before it goes on hold for the “Age of Revelation” event. In practice, the next issue is Unbreakable X-Men #1.
PAGES 1-3. Flashback: Ransom’s origin story.
This is a significantly expanded version of Ransom’s origin story from issue #3. In the original version, Valentin says that he was born with no heart; that his parents were “wealthy and vain” and “my imperfection shamed them”, and “when I was kidnapped, they wouldn’t pay the ransom. His powers then activate when they try to kill him. He finishes that account by saying that “I ran away from home. 13 years old. Better to belong to nothing than to belong where you aren’t wanted.”
A slightly altered version of the kidnapping scene appears in the previous issue. In that one, he also says that “My parents refused to pay the ransom”, but he gives his age as 10 (which he repeats in this issue). Decide for yourself whether that’s a continuity glitch or just Valentin tailoring the story slightly when he relayed it to the X-Men.
In both previous versions of this story, Valentin specifically blames both of his parents for abandoning him to the kidnappers, but there’s no sign of his mother in in this account – whether that means his biological mother or his stepmother.
Valentin recalls his father Patricio telling him at the age of 10 not to make friends – though if we’re being strictly accurate, what we actually see here is arguably just Patricio telling Valentin not to make friends with kids who Patricio believes are beneath him. Of course, that doesn’t mean Valentin’s point isn’t correct more generally.
Valentin had his own driver, Balduino, who seems to have been a nice enough guy, even though he’s clearly drinking on the job. We establish later in the scene that Patricio is a crimelord, which is probably why the unwanted son gets these trappings anyway. Valentin seems inclined with hindsight to interpret Balduino as nothing more than a decent professional who he looked up to simply because he showed Valentin some degree of kindness; that may be a bit harsh on Balduino, who appears in the scene to be actively supporting Valentin to make friends against his father’s will, and who occasionally spoke of Valentin as his third child.
In this version of the kidnapping scene, Patricio doesn’t simply refuse to pay the ransom, but goes on to claim that he controls the police and the underworld – which is new – and that the kidnappers will pay for crossing him. Valentin’s previous accounts have presented this as simple abandonment, but on one view, Patricio is actually trying to intimidate the kidnappers into releasing him. Mind you, even if you think that’s what he’s trying to do, he’s going about it in a very limited way. Valentin evidently does hear what his father is saying on the phone, because he refers to specifics in his narration.
PAGES 4-7. Wolverine and Ransom face down Patricio Correa.
Patricio showed up with a shotgun at the end of last issue, but we establish here that he isn’t working with the Word of Strength cult. In fact, he’s come on his own mission to rescue Benicio, his favoured child (and Ransom’s half-brother). Naturally enough, Ransom takes great delight in seeing his new father figure Wolverine stare Patricio down.
Valentin is the child of Patricio and a woman with whom he had an affair. Valentin acknowledges that Patricio “took me in”. But in the same exchange, Patricio claims that Valentin is one of “many” illegitimate children, and in his view they are “not my sons”. He surely can’t be housing all of them in the family home, so it’s not clear why he took in Valentin. It certainly isn’t because he wanted the boy; it might be something to do with him being a mutant. Possibly Valentin’s biological mother is simply dead – Valentin certainly doesn’t seem to regard her as worth talking about, and doesn’t appear to have regarded her as an option when he ran away from the Correa family home.
Last issue, Valentin’s narration claimed that “the word ‘mutant’ wasn’t allowed in my house… because of shame”. Interestingly, Patricio firmly objects to the suggestion that he’s anti-mutant. He seems to object to the symbolism of his son having no heart – that is, it’s the specific mutation that he has a problem with.
Patricio seems to think that his name will carry weight with Wolverine, though that may just be his default way of dealing with anything. (It’s odd that he didn’t bring any back-up with him.) Wolverine ultimately just takes the guy’s car and leaves him.
The cultists point them in the direction of Rosario and “La Crack”. There is indeed a comic convention with a similar name in Rosario, Argentina.
PAGES 8-9. Marlys invites Hotou to the school dance.
Hotoru has seized on “X means home” as a mantra following the end of issue #16, but this now seems to take the form of him insisting on hanging around with Becca and Sofia rather than talking to anyone else. Now that Hotoru is less determined to stay in persona at all times, it’s apparent that he really doesn’t have the social tools to deal with others; even Becca seems to be coping better with the situation. When pressed, Hotoru lapses back into persona to deflect awkward questions.
Psylocke taught Hotoru to dance in the X-Men: Hellfire Vigil one-shot, and he parrots word for word the instructions that she gave him.
Hotoru mentions again the “cartoon otters” from the Otter Party film that he wanted to see in issue #17.
Marlys is a new character; she’s either into death motifs too (with added pink and sparkles) or she’s trying to appeal to Hotoru’s schtick.
PAGES 10-12. Wolverine and Ransom at the comic convention.
Obviously, there’s a bunch of cosplayers here. Aside from the woman in the Argentinian flag-themed Phoenix costume, there’s…
- An Iron Fist in page 10 panel 1.
- A Mutina right next to him.
- At least three Savage Land Rogues in the main hall (don’t ask how anyone in the Marvel Universe knows what she was wearing in that story).
- A Daredevil at the artists’ alley section.
- An Angela.
- The girl next to her in the black costume with her hair in bunches is dressed as Fantasma from New Champions.
- Jay and Silent Bob.
- A Doctor Doom in the bottom left corner of the hall.
- A Spider-Woman bottom left.
- A Wiccan.
- A generic Hand ninja (I guess) with a woman in a red and yellow costume that I don’t recognise.
- Two Deadpools of varying quality.
- A toddler wearing a Magneto helmet.
- Just in front of him, a Luna Snow and a Black Cat.
- In the bottom right, a Spider-Man and a Squirrel Girl.
- By the counter on the right, a Loki.
- Next to him, the guy in the conquistador-style outfit is dressed as Defensor, the national Argentinian superhero from Contest of Champions.
- Oh, and there’s a giant model of Fin Fang Foom hanging from the ceiling.
- On page 12, we can see Wonder Man and Iron Man costumes in the background, and somebody has managed to knock up a costume based on Spinstress, the Disney Princess Spider-Man of Earth-423.
The ersatz Phoenix gives her name as Fenix de Plata (“Silver Phoenix”), and Wolverine seems quite taken with her. Valentin appears to react a little badly to that.
PAGES 13-14. Benicio turns on the Word of Strength.
Benicio claims that he “just wanted to belong to something” and draws the line at committing a terrorist attack. Everyone else seems to believe that they have a “divine mission” of some sort, but Benicio seems unsure what it’s even meant to be – it’s not clear that anyone else can actually articulate it. In the previous issue, it seemed to be some sort of anti-mutant group, but only in that Proctor insisted that “only those of pure blood may take this trial” and demanded confirmation that Benicio had no mutant blood. It turns out in this issue that Proctor is a mutant and (moreover) that Benicio knows this, so presumably it’s common knowledge among the cultists. If so, perhaps Proctor’s powers simply don’t work on mutants. At any rate, no other clear agenda is ever given for the group – they’re just maniacs, it seems.
Background cameos include cosplayers of Hercules and Gamora.
PAGES 15-18. The Word of Strength are defeated.
Valentin is motivated to defend his brother – not only has he shown a bit of backbone, but (in his own way) he’s also broken with their father’s wishes.
Despite impressions last issue, the Word of Strength is not made up solely of men (though presumably the women train separately), and a bunch of the cosplayers are also working for Proctor. They include women dressed as Rogue (or maybe a generic jungle girl), Black Bolt, Cyclops and what looks like some sort of X-Statix costume. I’m not sure who the blonde woman in the red jacket is meant to be, if anyone.
The trinkets in page 15 panel 1 include Loki’s headdress, Mjolnir, a miniature Frog Thor, and a model of the Destroyer.
Ransom’s line of Spanish dialogue is “Last chance, fanatics. Go back to your homes. Don’t do this.” The reply appears to be “Supervisor’s orders.”
Proctor is apparently a mutant with the power to give temporary powers to other people, which is where the followers are getting their strength from. He rather collapses when faced with any actual pushback – it’s not entirely clear whether the remaining followers are supposed to be panicking at their powers burning out or just alarmed at seeing their colleagues defeated. Either way, the spell seems to be broken once the battle is being lost.
Ransom gives us some narration about how he’s coming to see the X-Men as his family and get over his emotional problems in a parallel to Hotoru.
PAGES 19-20. Patricio arrives.
Patricio shows up with money to buy Benicio’s freedom from Proctor – which he openly describes as “proof of love”, presumably to annoy Valentin. It’s not clear whether Proctor has actually demanded a ransom, though. Benicio said quite clearly earlier in the issue that he was looking to belong somewhere, and nobody else seems to have been press ganged into this group. Wolverine confuses matters a little by seeming to assume that a ransom must have been demanded, but in fact the impression is that Patricio either won’t accept that Benicio could have gone freely, or believes that he can buy his way out of any problem.
We get a Doctor Strange and an Ironheart among the cosplayers on the final page.
My brain couldn’t decide if Wolverine’s reaction to ‘Phoenix’ was quite amusing or made no sense whatsoever.
A bunch of Wolverine dialogue here feels off. “What’s your major malfunction?” for instance, which feels far too 90s kid show coded for Logan. The Phoenix interaction felt a little too cute too.
I guess Simone is throwing in more random Simpsons references, after someone pointed out that she used to write the Simpsons comic.
Logan was going undercover as Colonel Hapablab at the comic convention.
Patricio isn’t going to win any Father of the Year awards but I thought that Ransom was being a bit hard on him about refusing to pay the money- I went with the interpretation that he was trying to scare them into releasing Ransom.
Note that there are several cosplayers of Thor and Loki at the convention even though knowledge of the Asgardians’ existence was erased from the public’s memory in recent issues of Thor. All the cosplayers should remember is Beta Ray Bill.
Note that the female Cyclops cosplayer was seen in Harvey X’s vision in issue 5.
This issue’s ending was a big mess. What was Proctor’s motivation for attacking the convention? Patricio concludes that Proctor just wanted a ransom for Benicio. But if that’s the case. why not just hold Benicio hostage? If his plan to attack the convention was separate from his plans for Benicio, then what was his reason to attack the convention?
It’s worth noting that the plots of a lot of X-series seem rushed to finish up before Age of Revelation. Last week’s Exceptional X-Men issue was rushed and made no sense and the War of Thunder storyline in Storm is EXTREMELY rushed. Even the ending of this week’s Magik seems rushed with poor Illyana having to defeat the Embodiment, defeat Liminal and convince Dani to become the leader of the Society all in rapid succession. This issue fits the pattern. Ayodele has mentioned that Breevort told the writers Age of Revelation was coming but couldn’t definitively nail down WHEN it was coming and the writing on a lot of books seems to suffer from it.
Gail Simone has said that she had to rework a plot involving a villain because of Age of Revelation. I wonder if Proctor was originally intended to be Fabian Cortez. The solicits for issues 20-21 suggested that a classic X-villain would appear- no villain appeared. Cortez’s mutant power is the ability to enhance other mutants’ abilities. We saw in Sentinels that he had discovered he could use it to heal humans- it wouldn’t be a stretch to say he learned how to use it to make humans stronger as well. Cortez is named after one of the conquerers of Latin America. Cortez was born to a wealthy family. so he would be a foil to Ransom. and his brother. And the plot of Age of Revelation involves Doug mind-controlling the X-Men to rescue Cortez from SHIELD with disastrous results.
The letters page confirms that the Endling was supposed to be revealed in issue 16 but “plans shifted”. I wonder what’s going on behind the scenes.
Given the antennas, I assume the cosplayer between the ninja and Wiccan in page 10 is playing one of the Wasps (either Janet or Nadia). Two positions to our right from Doctor Doom there seems to be a Transformer of some form, perhaps Ratchet going by the head decoration (but not the colors).
Thunderstrike’s mace (also called Thunderstrike) is imitated by another prop in page 15.
The jungle-styled character in page 16 seems to be wearing some version of Shanna’s costume alongside Rogue’s headband, going by a later frame in page 18. A creative choice, in all likelihood. The headband-and-jacket character may be a take on Dazzler’s second costume. The colors are wrong and we see in page 18 that she is wearing regular pants (perhaps jeans), but this is the same issue that has the Silver Phoenix.
Valentin comes across a bit too eager and insecure in this issue IMO. It is also a bit disorienting to see Wolverine written this way. He seems to have decided to behave as a bit more naive and inexperienced than he truly is, presumably for Valentin’s benefit. An interesting take, but it feels sudden to me.
Of all the random cosplayers, I’m the most tickled by the Defensor, simply because it’s a nice little nod to an oft-forgotten regional superhero with almost no post-Contest of Champion appearances. (In fact, he was supposedly killed by Zeitgeist in Gruenwald’s Captain America run, so either this cosplayer is a little bit of a history/trivia buff, or maybe they were inspired by a new claimant to the identity?)
Valentin claiming he was literally born without a heart but his powers didn’t kick in until he was 10 does pose some interesting questions about how his mutation works on both passive and active levels. How did he live without a heart, did his abilities passively preserve him? It’s not like Chamber who was a normal person until his manifestation blew out his chest… Also, this would make him a rare case of a mutant who was recognizable as such at birth. Also, with the timing of things, how did he fare during the post-Decimation era?
I really liked “Silver Phoenix” and wouldn’t mind seeing her again. Heck, let Logan date her just to make it weird for everyone when he brings this tall queen home and everyone pretends not to notice any Jean vibes.
(Though honestly I sincerely doubt he’d actually -admit- his thing for Jean to anyone, since everyone’s basically decided to ignore the supposed throuple clues during early Krakoa, lol)
Hotoru’s new friend/love interest being a disabled Black girl with similarly morbid (yet glitter!) tastes feels both a little on the nose and very adorable. I really want to see how this goes. Gail’s done a great job of breathing life into the Outliers, and I hope she gets to write them for a while longer.
(Look, I’m down for even more focus on the kids, if Marvel wanted to give us a student-focused/school set book… but part of me does want to see the adult members of this cast acting as an actual X-team. Maybe not fighting crime, but… search and rescue? Disaster relief? Something else community-based to reflect their current focus? It does feel like the Uncanny title should be more of a traditional X-Men focus. Bring back Academy X or something…)
I think that the AOR was created so quickly and hastily that many plans underwent significant changes. And to say nothing of Phoenix #15…
Michael-Humans do remember the Asgardians as from Norse mythology. Sure, you could argue that they shouldn’t look like the Marvel U version of Thor and Loki, who bear little resemblance to their appearance in our Norse myths, but if the Marvel U Norse mythology was based on the “real” Asgardians, we could say that they are dressed up like the mythological characters. Although, again, yeah, why would you dress up like the Norse mythological characters of Thor and Loki at a comic convention.
Also interesting from the letters page is how the first letter asks about the nature of Calico’s powers and it’s totally ignored by Brevoort.
I think right now the exact relationship between the actual Norse gods (of Marvel), the fictional Norse gods (of whatever pop culture exists in Marvel) and what people remember is … messy, and we’re still learning what it means via Ewing’s Mortal Thor title.
AFAIK it goes:
Norse myths existed
Beta Ray Bill was inspired by the Norse myths and became the hero who has replaced “our” Thor in all relevant adventures and stories.
(No word on what this means for any other Norse-inspired, related, or influenced characters. Asgard floating over Broxton? Volstagg creating an incident in Chicago? The Siege storyline? The X-Men and New Mutants going to Asgard? Dani Moonstar’s stint as a Valkyrie? The Hood using the Norn Stones? All those villains empowered by Loki or Amora? The list goes on and on…)
My thought is that reality, having realized it needed to rewrite things to account for the separation of Midgard from the other realms, did a panic spackle job on continuity by shoving Beta Ray Bill into all Thor-shaped holes and promised to get to everything else later. Just like every other time there’s a temporary editing out of cornerstone characters (like when Spider-Man got undone by the magic knife a few years ago in a Spider-Verse event.) Since it’s not as drastic as a full Age of… type reality shift, Continuity just cuts and pastes until they have time for a full revision.
Presumably, this means that Marvel Comics, or Roxxon, or whoever published them, created comics about a fictional Thor, Loki, etc, just like in the real world but didn’t have to worry about offending an actual living set of gods (like they might by doing a Hercules comic?)
All this to explain a few cosplayers. Savage Land Rogue? Shrug. Maybe the result of horny artists. Spinstress? Just a creative cosplayer not realizing she’s real in a different reality.
Correction: I guess I should have left it open how close the Lee/Kirby depiction of Loki was to actual mythology. Descriptions of Loki are very sparse, except that he was tall and handsome. I guess it’s debatable if someone found original Marvel Loki to be handsome. I think Lee and Kirby’s intent was to make Loki look ugly. Of course, Loki was a shape-shifter, which is probably why there’s not much of a description of him.
For what it’s worth, I’d say the “major malfunction” line is about as far from Saturday morning as you can get, being a direct quote from the late R. Lee Ermey’s iconic role Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket.
As an iconic grumpy bast*rd, it feels kind of appropriate for Logan, if many a bit too pop culture.
I had to re-read last month’s issue after this to see if I was missing something and, nope, I was not. To steal a line from Mystery Science Theater, I guess the plot is none of our business.
I just do not understand what keeps happening with this series. I’m positive Gail Simone used to know how to write. Maybe she needs a co-writer to firm up the plots while she focuses on the twee found-family stuff.
The two Deadpools are posing as the Spider-man Pointing Meme: https://i.etsystatic.com/29123528/r/il/d5bdf2/3878173106/il_fullxfull.3878173106_t52r.jpg
Anyone recognize the comic art at the bottom of p.11?
Not really, but I can see a few details.
Next to the Silver Phoenix’s thigh we can see what seems to be a fairly early image of Venom – but definitely not by McFarlanne.
The next panel has a face close-up on Scorpion (McGargan, I think).
There and just below I think we see some of the tentacle tips from Doctor Octopus.
And in the following panel we see both Venom and Anti-Venom.
The last piece of art looks a lot more some form of poster than comic book panels.
I think you have to take all cosplay, Halloween costumes etc. in comics for what they are, a wink to the readers.
That said, if you assume that everyone has forgotten modern-day Thor but still know the myths, then the real Thor must still have been bumming around Europe in the 900s, getting witnessed by Scandinavians. So things like the Eyrarland figurine in the Marvel universe probably show Thor with hat wings and Mickey Mouse pants. Enough for people to dress like the fictional god in the modern day.
I have no idea how this all works. Hercules and Ares hang out in Manhattan, Moon Knight has his deal going, so all the gods are real, except the Norse ones?
And Jesus. Jesus is not real in the Marvel Universe. Ask Jenny Blake.
All Marvel characters? Roy Thomas would have got in a couple of DCers and half a dozen Golden Agers.
I had to re-read the ‘what is your major malfunction’ line twice. I thought it was a mistake and Jubilee went with them secretly or something.
I have to say. this is the first Simone book I have read and she is very well regarded so I had high hopes – and it has been very disappointing. It reads like fan fiction in the vein of the twilight series. Maybe thats the audience it is going for.
The only thing I have enjoyed is the art.
@Si
There is no good reason to expect evidence of any sort of deity or similar entity to be available in everyday life, even in the Marvel Universe.
Plenty of comparable entities are canonically real in the MU yet quite unproven at the street level – Eternity and other cosmic entities, for one. I _think_ it was established recently that Grendel exists in the MU as some form of Symbiote, but that is a new development.
Of course, there is hardly any reason why cosplayers won’t dress as fully fictional characters either, be it in our world or in Earth-616. If anything, that is quite commonplace. No one would blink if someone appeared as, say, Oberon or Titania (from Shakespeare’s work). I was going to mention Krampus, but I just learned that he exists in 616.
Luis-Do you mean Beowulf’s Grendel or Matt Wagner’s Grendel? Beowulf’s Grendel is part of the Marvel Universe, from the Walt Simonson run on Thor.
The vibe I’m getting from Simone’s Uncanny is very similar to her Secret Six: low-key hanging out in the backwoods with occasionally eruptions of horror-tinged violence. Unfortunately, the X-Men aren’t the Secret Six, and a different approach was needed.
It’s possible this is exactly why Brevoort hired her, or what they agreed upon when she started working for him. Or maybe she’s slipping into a nostalgic mode of her own work. I don’t think we’ll ever know. But this book seems very “X-Men but at DC” to me.
Could the blonde in the red jacket be someone dressed as Elsa Bloodstone?
From Brevoort substack: “UNCANNY X-MEN #21 concludes our two-part story that takes Wolverine and Ransom back to Brazil and delves into Valentin’s background. Gail Simone and Luciano Vecchio put it all together. This cover really could have used some cover copy to plus it up and provide some context to the image, but it went to print during the two weeks I was on the West Coast for SDCC, so I didn’t get my usual crack at it, unfortunately.”
This guy still thinks Buenos Aires in Brazil, even with the argentine artist.
Haven’t read the issue yet but “Phoenix de Plata” might actually be a reference to the Rio de la Plata, the river Argentina gets its name from and with runs through Buenos Aires.
Vinicius-Either that, or it’s not just the cover copy, but that Brevoort isn’t bothering to even read the comic any longer. Not that I would particularly blame him for getting bored of these FtA comics…except, he’s getting paid to read them, and he was the figurehead behind the ideas.
Simone is doing an excellent job of creating “empathy engine” story elements. The kids are fun to read. The established X-Men have jarringly different voices than my expectations. My expectations were higher.
Being shot point blank at age 10, after hearing your father refuse to pay a ransom may well take until age 13 before acting on it by running away.
My take on having “no heart” isn’t a physical absence, but is the father accusing him of cowardice. A 10 year old upset at being shot with no expectation that they were a mutant let alone bullet-proof seems… This is father of the year material and probably not a continuity glitch.
And on the subject of glitches… As a USAian, I doubt Brevoort even knows where in Europe to find Brazil. Here in the US, most can’t find Argentina on a map of Wales. He is winning friends and leading the competition for editor of the year.
@Rob
Rio de la Plata may well be a reference, but probably indirectly. Silver Phoenix is wearing a version of the 1980s Phoenix costume with the Argentinian colors of blue and white. I have actually seen people jesting that it is a jealous response to the “Brazilian Phoenix” of Jean Grey in green and yellow.
As you note, the name “Argentina” comes from the latin for “silver” as well.
Either way, the end result is that the name is a poetic way of pointing out that she is Phoenix styled in Argentinian colors.
Silver Phoenix will be playing up front with Messi in the World Cup next year.
“I _think_ it was established recently that Grendel exists in the MU as some form of Symbiote, but that is a new development”.
It was a King In Black thing. Thor had fought a symbiote dragon in the past and that led to the legend of Beowulf defeating Grendel. So Grendel isn’t a symbiote, unless Thor IS Beowulf (actually I suppose it does kind of mean Thor is Beowulf, but you get the point).
Ryan T: I thought it was a throwback to X-Men 69 when Cecilia Reyes yells at Marrow: “what is your malfunction?!” Simone amd Hickman like little dovetail and Easter eggs like that.
There’s like four Beowulfs in Marvel, if you count Thor. There’s also Ulysses Bloodstone, the Forgotten One, and a god who is just plain Beowulf. Maybe it was just really common back in the day that if you killed a troll, their mum would come around to complain.
Note that all these people who have a claim to being Beowulf are immortal, while the actual Beowulf is one of the very few mythical heroes who have an actual story about them dying. As an old man, no less.
Yeah, there’s a lot wrong with that King in Black story. The dragon fought by Beowulf is not Grendel. Beowulf ends up dying from the injuries he sustained fighting the dragon. Why would anyone be influenced to write the Beowulf/Grendel myth after witnessing Thor (first) fighting a dragon and (second) not dying?
Actually the Forgotten One was not just Beowulf, but also Gilgamesh, from the epic that is famously about a guy who for all his power couldn’t defeat death.
Which is even stupider than the Beowulf stuff. Was everything in the old story just a bored Eternal mocking humans for being mortal, and the joke went over the Mesopotamians’ heads?
Maybe my expectations for Simone were too high, but every single issue in her run so far has had these cringey, out-of-character moments where not only do they not make sense, I can’t even reconstruct what she was *aiming* for. It happens less often with the Outliers (although this issue’s whole “you have no heart, therefore you are not a Correa, which means heart [which it doesn’t]” thing is certainly one of those), but this isn’t an Outliers book.
@Diana- that’s the problem. Simone wanted to write a “Rogue and the Outliers book” but Uncanny X-Men was promoted as a Rogue-Gambit-Wolverine-Jubilee-and-Nightcrawler book. So it felt like a bait and switch.
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