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

\"\"<\/a>UNCANNY SPIDER-MAN #3<\/strong>
\n“Superpositional”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Si Spurrier<\/strong>
\nArtist: Javier Pina<\/strong>
\nColourist: Matt Milla<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Joe Caramagna<\/strong>
\nDesign: Tom Muller & Jay Bowen<\/strong>
\nEditor: Sarah Brunstad<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1.<\/strong> Nightcrawler fights Silver Sable.<\/p>\n

PAGES 2-4.\u00a0<\/strong>Nightcrawler fights Gaap and the Wild Pack.<\/em><\/p>\n

The narrators here are the Vulture and Nimrod.<\/p>\n

Gaap the Integument<\/strong> is said to be a Deviant; he’s a new character. Gaap is a traditional demon name<\/a>; an “integument” is just a tough outer protective layer.\u00a0Gaap is wearing the same mind control device that was used on Rhino last issue and on Nightcrawler in X-Men: Before the Fall – Sons of X<\/em> #1. Obviously, this is a repeat of the same basic idea that was tried that issue with the Rhino: lure out Nightcrawler so the Wild Pack can try to catch him.<\/p>\n

Nightcrawler has apparently embraced the nickname “Creepy Crawler”, after initially calling himself Spinnenmann.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

PAGES 5-7.\u00a0<\/strong>Vulture and Nimrod.<\/em><\/p>\n

“The detainee – the captive you [Nimrod] brought in…”<\/strong> Warlock, who was absorbed by Nimrod in\u00a0Legion of X\u00a0<\/em>#10. A data page in the previous issue already confirmed that Vulture was working on the “stolen alien Technarch sourcecode”.<\/p>\n

According to Nimrod, Nightcrawler is a high priority target for Orchis for two main reasons. First, he can somehow evade their scanners (as seen in issue #1), and they want to know how. Second, he’s a popular mutant, and that won’t do. Note that Nimrod doesn’t attach any particular significant to the fact that Nightcrawler was an X-Man, or even a member of the Quiet Council. Maybe he just regards that as going without saying, and he’s focussing on why Nightcrawler is a high priority even for an X-Man. Certainly the two reasons that Nimrod gives here would apply equally to Iceman, who does indeed seem to be a particularly high priority for Orchis over in Astonishing Iceman<\/em>, compared to less visible mutant heroes.<\/p>\n

PAGE 8.\u00a0<\/strong>Recap and credits.<\/p>\n

PAGE 9.\u00a0<\/strong>A data page on Silver Sable International, from Orchis’s files. This is just a straight intro to Sable’s organisation, for readers not familiar with the Spider-Man mythos.<\/p>\n

PAGES 10-14.\u00a0<\/strong>Nightcrawler and Silver Sable.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pretty self-explanatory. Silver Sable insists that she’s doing her job properly during the day while romancing Nightcrawler when she’s off the clock, but you have to assume that she is not exactly driven to help Orchis out, given how her first encounter with Nightcrawler went last issue.<\/p>\n

Lila Cheney<\/strong> is surely familiar to everyone, but since she’s not a regular in this book: she’s the intergalactic mutant teleporter who used to be a supporting character in\u00a0New Mutants<\/em>, and she’s also a rock star. Nightcrawler says that he “heard” that Lila was killed by Sentinels in\u00a0X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2023<\/em> as part of their priority attack on teleporters (to stop the mutants from escaping or fetching reinforcements). It’s not clear how he knows this; the book has been vague about whether he’s in touch with the X-Men in New York. Lila was\u00a0not<\/em> in fact seen dying in the\u00a0Hellfire Gala<\/em> one-shot.<\/p>\n

“Then again, she married a single-minded Nazi hunter who got the whole family blown up…”<\/strong> Silver Sable’s parents were Anastasia and Ernst Sablinova. There is at least one version of her back story in which Silver Sable’s mother dies when the family home is blown up by vengeful Nazis, but sadly\u00a0Silver Sable & The Wild Pack\u00a0<\/em>has yet to make it to Marvel Unlimited.<\/p>\n

PAGE 15.\u00a0<\/strong>Data page: the lyrics to Lila Cheney’s song “Superpositional”, presumably from her Muse phase.<\/p>\n

PAGE 16.\u00a0<\/strong>Mystique runs past.<\/em><\/p>\n

“They took my baby – here, in these endless forests of Bavaria”.<\/strong> As in the last issue, Mystique is rambling about Nightcrawler’s origin story.<\/a> Again, she seems to be alluding to a version of events that contradicts previous accounts, and suggesting that baby Kurt was taken from her, instead of being abandoned.<\/p>\n

PAGES 17-21. <\/strong>Nightcrawler fights the Hounds.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Hounds<\/strong> are an imported concept from Rachel Summers’ back-story – basically, mutants who are programmed to hunt other mutants. As with the Hounds here, this involved personality alteration rather than direct mind control. Technically only one of these three Hounds is actually a mutant, but they’ll do in a pinch.<\/p>\n

We saw\u00a0Feral<\/strong> being experimented upon by Vulture in issue #1.\u00a0Dagger<\/strong> appeared last issue (and now we know why she was introduced at such length), when she mentioned that her partner\u00a0Cloak<\/strong> was missing.<\/p>\n

Nightcrawler’s Hopesword is able to revert Cloak back to his human form, but we don’t see enough of him to know whether it reverts his personality too. Mystique shoots him through the head, which apparently isn’t fatal because of his Technarch infection.<\/p>\n

PAGE 22.\u00a0<\/strong>The Hounds capture three other mutants.<\/em><\/p>\n

The three victims are\u00a0Fatale, Animax<\/strong> and\u00a0Reaper<\/strong>, all of whom were last seen among the refugees at the Limbo Embassy in\u00a0Dark X-Men<\/em> #1.<\/p>\n

PAGES 23-24.\u00a0<\/strong>Nightcrawler talks to his “demon” image.<\/em><\/p>\n

Page 23 panel 3 is simply a recap of\u00a0Legion of X\u00a0<\/em>#10 and the\u00a0Sons of X\u00a0<\/em>one-shot.<\/p>\n

PAGE 25.\u00a0<\/strong>Trailers. The Krakoan reads PIZZA GOOD LYNCHING BAD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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