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As always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JUGGERNAUT #3<\/strong>
“Stuck in the Past”<\/strong>
by Fabian Nicieza, Ron Garney & Matt Milla<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1.<\/strong> The Juggernaut replacing a broken statue of Lady Justice, and weighing sand in her scales. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 2.<\/strong> This issue’s kind-of-sort-of recap page is referencing Amazing Spider-Man<\/em> vol 1 #230 (July 1982), in which Juggernaut is trying to abduct Madame Web, and winds up fighting Spider-Man on a construction site. Unable to actually hurt Juggernaut, Spider-Man defeats him by luring him into newly-poured concrete foundations which apparently go down 40 feet or so, leading him to sink to the bottom. He was indeed stuck there for quite some time – his next published appearance was in Uncanny X-Men<\/em> vol 1 #183, two years later – though previous stories have given it as anything from a month to six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

PAGES 3-5.<\/strong> The start of the trial.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cain is being sued by Carmine Angelo, apparently on the ground that the fight with Spider-Man caused the release of all that cement, bankrupting Angelo’s construction company. There are a couple of problems with this, not least that it isn’t what happened in Amazing <\/em>#230 – the cement was already poured. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s also the point that if the cement belonged to the company, then you’d expect the claim to be brought by the company or its liquidator, not by the company owner. But that’s fairly easy to explain away – suing the Juggernaut is not a very attractive option since he doesn’t have any money, so it makes more sense for the liquidator to sell the claim to an aggrieved shareholder. As for why it hasn’t timebarred by now, no doubt New York law has all sorts of exciting exceptions in the Marvel Universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another possibility is that there’s something slightly dodgy about this claim, which is why it doesn’t match up with the events of Amazing<\/em> #230. Carmine Angelo is a new character, but the name might be a reference to New York mobster Carmine Agnello<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite being notionally the A-plot, this whole trial thing is a bit underdeveloped. Obviously the main point of it is to confront Cain again with the things he did as a villain, but the bottom line is that he walks away without facing any real consequences for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bernie Rosenthal<\/strong> is a supporting character from early 1980s Captain America<\/em> who did indeed go off to become a lawyer, and occasionally shows up in that role. Makes a change from it always being Matt Murdock, Foggy Nelson or Jen Walters, anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 4-6.<\/strong> Flashback: Cain arrives at the forge of Cyttorak.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This continues the parallel story of how Cain got his powers back after losing the Crimson Gem. In the previous issue’s flashback, he found a frieze in Budapest which depicted Cyttorak and a blacksmith working at some sort of forge. Somehow or other, he’s traced that forge to North Korea. The smith turns out to be a zealot who has found a way to bring the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak to Earth in corporeal form, but who was hoping to be rewarded by becoming the Juggernaut himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Crimson Bands of Cyttorak<\/strong> are a common spell used by Doctor Strange, which just summons up a bunch of red bands to encase an opponent. Cyttorak was mentioned first in that context, before Juggernaut was introduced a year or so later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 7-16.<\/strong> Juggernaut fights Quicksand.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quicksand <\/strong>is a Thor villain. So far as her powers are concerned, she’s basically the same as the better known Sandman. As far as I’m aware, she doesn’t have any previous history with the Juggernaut. Despite that, Cain knows her, and apparently knows her real first name (which I don’t think has been given before). D-Cel assumes that they met in prison, but Cain doesn’t actually tell us. Cain recognises that Quicksand is acting out of character, but considering that she’s using German words, that’s not a hugely astute observation. As we establish later, Quicksand is under Arnim Zola’s control throughout this sequence, so her own character isn’t especially important to anything that happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D-Cel.<\/strong> Quicksand has been sent to capture D-Cel, who she describes as “the mutant child”. D-Cel strenuously denies being a mutant, but the two Damage Control staff mention that they’ve scanned her, and she is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We don’t know why D-Cel would be lying about this, or why it would matter – but when she first appeared in issue #1, she took great offence to Cain assuming she was a mutant. When pushed, she claimed that she got her powers in a “science accident” and changed the subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 17-18.<\/strong> Flashback: Cain the bands and they become his new armour.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They evidently never did this for the smith, so Cain reasonably assumes that Cyttorak wants him back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 19-20.<\/strong> Cain settles the case.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This settlement doesn’t really make sense – why is the sand etc Cain’s to give, and what use are they to the plaintiff if he’s already lost his company?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technetium 99m<\/strong> is the most commonly used medical radioisotope, which I assume is what Niket means when he says it’s “the most commonly employed radioelement”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arnim Zola<\/strong> is a Nazi mad scientist villain who dates back to the late 1970s, when the “Nazi who went into hiding” trope still made chronological sense. Still, he’s a cyborg, so he keeps on going. He has no particular history with the Juggernaut, and the private prison company Absolution Solutions is also new. More of him next issue, no doubt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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