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

\"\"<\/a>SABRETOOTH vol 4 #2<\/strong>
\nWriter: Victor LaValle<\/strong>
\nArtist: Leonard Kirk<\/strong>
\nColourist: Rain Beredo<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Cory Petit<\/strong>
\nEditor: Jordan D White<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1.<\/strong> Angry Sabretooth in jail.<\/p>\n

PAGE 2.<\/strong> Opening quote. This is a quote often attributed to the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass (1817\/8-1895). It’s been circulating in his name for decades but those online sources<\/a> that actually\u00a0check<\/em> these things<\/a> seem to agree that it’s apocryphal.<\/p>\n

PAGES 3-5.<\/strong>\u00a0Sabretooth’s fellow prisoners are banished to the Pit.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is a flashback which leads in to the end of the previous issue. It doesn’t really fit with any of the other times that we’ve seen people sent to the Pit, in which the whole Quiet Council was present. The previous examples are Sabretooth in\u00a0House of X<\/em> #6, Toad in\u00a0X-Men: Trial of Magneto<\/em> #5, Orphan-Maker and Nanny in Hellions<\/em> #18\u00a0and X-Men Green in\u00a0X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic<\/em> #12. Krakoa let them go, but it’s not obvious what happened to Toad – given that he was being set up by Magneto and Scarlet Witch, maybe he was quietly smuggled out too.<\/p>\n

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The numbers above the five prisoners appear to indicate which law of Krakoa they broke. Nekra and Oya have broken law number 2 – “Murder no man.” Nekra confirms this later in the issue (at least for herself); Oya tells us here that she would do the same again; and Xavier suggests that Nekra and Oya were working together.<\/p>\n

Madison Jeffries and Melter have both broken law 3 – “Respect this sacred land.” Again, Melter confirms this later. Third Eye, the one completely new character, has a number 1, indicating that he broke the “Make more mutants” law. Quite what would amount to breaking that law is unclear – it’s hard to imagine the X-Men being shown to have criminalised any of the obvious possibilities, such as contraception, celibacy or abortion.<\/p>\n

Then again, they’re being written to believe that the Pit is a good idea, so who knows.<\/p>\n

“You said there would be no prisons here.”<\/strong> In\u00a0House of X<\/em> #6.<\/p>\n

“Long ago, I nearly overthrew the United States government.”\u00a0<\/strong>In\u00a0Daredevil<\/em> vol 1 #109-112.<\/p>\n

“I’ve felt just as sure of my choices in the past. I wasn’t always right.”<\/strong> Irony klaxon.<\/p>\n

PAGE 6.<\/strong> Recap and credits.<\/p>\n

PAGE 7.<\/strong>\u00a0Oya and Madison Jeffries on the run in “Hell”.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I always thought, deep down, this is where I’d end up.”<\/strong>\u00a0This was a recurring theme of early Oya stories.<\/p>\n

PAGE 8.<\/strong> Nekra and Melter on the run.<\/em><\/p>\n

Self-explanatory.<\/p>\n

PAGE 9.<\/strong>\u00a0Third Eye sees the truth.<\/em><\/p>\n

Which is presumably his power.<\/p>\n

“Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.”<\/strong> This is a quote from Jean Toomer (1894-1967). Specifically, it’s from his collection of aphorisms,\u00a0Essentials <\/em>(1931).<\/p>\n

PAGES 10-12.<\/strong>\u00a0The new arrivals confront Sabretooth.<\/em><\/p>\n

Watching from above are the three Sabretooths we saw acting as a “council” of sorts last issue (with the fourth seat apparently belonging to the cat).<\/p>\n

Madison claimed on page 7 that he couldn’t use his powers in Hell, but apparently he\u00a0can<\/em> control the plastic inside Sabretooth – or believes he can. It’s all illusion, of course. Maybe there’s a degree of dream logic here, or maybe he just didn’t have this sort of use in mind when he was speaking earlier.<\/p>\n

“I prefer Easy Rawlins.”<\/strong> Easy Rawlins was an African-American private investigator who appeared in a number of stories by Walter Mosley; the best known is probably\u00a0Devil in a Blue Dress<\/em>, which was adapted into a film in 1995.<\/p>\n

PAGES 13-15.<\/strong> Third Eye contacts Mole.<\/em><\/p>\n

Third Eye is evidently able to think his way out of the illusion – whether that’s due to his powers or just plain mental discipline isn’t entirely clear, but he’s clearly a psychic of some sort.<\/p>\n

The flashback at the top of page 14 is the final panel of\u00a0X-Factor<\/em> vol 1 #53, which obviously implied that Sabretooth was about to kill Mole.<\/p>\n

PAGE 16.<\/strong> Data page. Mole recaps how he survived his encounter with Sabretooth – essentially, he used his tunnelling power to escape.<\/p>\n

“I tried to compete with the Angel for the attention of a lady named Opal Tanaka.”<\/strong> That’s an error – it was Iceman. Oddly, this error gets repeated later in the issue, despite the fact that it’s part of the plot of\u00a0X-Factor<\/em> #53 – but the book’s not available on Unlimited, so it’s maybe not the easiest to research.<\/p>\n

Chicken Wings<\/strong> was another Morlock who survived the initial Morlock massacre. Sabretooth killed him in\u00a0X-Factor<\/em> vol 1 #51.<\/p>\n

PAGES 17-18.<\/strong>\u00a0Mole tries without success to raise the alarm.<\/em><\/p>\n

Surprisingly,\u00a0Apocalypse<\/strong> makes his first appearance on Krakoa since “X of Swords” (assuming that this story is indeed meant to be taking place right now). He appears to be here to deal with something about the High Lords (the Externals). I’m guessing that that’s probably a reference to a story that hasn’t started yet.<\/p>\n

PAGES 19-24.<\/strong>\u00a0Sabretooth enlists his fellow prisoners to help him escape.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sabretooth seems to be\u00a0both<\/em> playing the role of Professor X\u00a0and<\/em> appearing as one of the prisoners in the cell.<\/p>\n

Melter claims to have been sent to the Pit for damaging a boulder, which apparently constituted damaging Krakoa. This seems odd – we’ve seen people do this sort of damage in training before, and Oya registers that this doesn’t seem like a complete explanation of what he’s doing here. Still, whatever\u00a0exactly\u00a0<\/em>he did, Melter seems pretty adamant that it was a mistake.<\/p>\n

Sabretooth’s quotation of Xavier comes from\u00a0House of X<\/em> #6.<\/p>\n

PAGE 25.<\/strong> Trailers. The Krakoan reads NEXT: PRISON RIOT.<\/p>\n

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