Uncanny Spiderman 3
This keeps up the fun with the mix of action, humour and ahem, character moments and moves the plot along at a good rate.
We start with the already released pages; Kurt vs a gigantic Deviant. He frees it from the Orchis mind control device with the hope sword and it returns to the deep, poor old thing, all the while quipping in Kurt manner and while being monitored by The Vulture and Nimrod, who are not amused by him thwarting their set piece (the plan was for the Orchis Sentinels to save NY, not one hyperactive mutant). Silver Sable and her merc team also fail to subdue him. Nimrod is not impressed with either the mercenaries or Vulture employing them.
Best line in the book:
“Do not make the mistake of believing that because you wear the skin of an angel… you may make demands of a god.”
Orchis want Kurt because they don’t understand how he’s evading their scans, they suspect Legion/David (as do we).
Also, they don’t want a hero defying them.
Toombs is given permission to unleash his hounds.
Information page on Silver Sable International.
Cut to a starlit roof top where Sable and Kurt are in flagrante delicto over a bottle of champagne. Good lad, keeping the mutant end up. They end up singing Lila Cheney songs to each other. It’s both sexy and cute.
She points out that when they are being Uncanny Spiderman and Silver Sable, she will be out to nail his tail. When they are out of costume, she will be out to be nailed by the tail.
Kurt leaves as he knows where Mystique will be at that time of night, he’s correct. Her mind is in the Bavarian woods, but her body is in NYC. And the Orchis Hounds have her scent.
Reveal of Feral and Dagger, who have been infected by Warlock’s technovirus. They fight, clearly it is different from the mind control Orchis used on Kurt/Rhino/the Deviant, it’s more effective for a start.
Kurt holds his own until Cloak, also a Hound, joins the fight and he is absorbed by Cloak, who then turns his attention on Mystique. Kurt breaks free from Cloak with the HopeSword, freeing his mother too. This frees Tyrone from Cloak momentarily, until Mystique acts in her usual unstable way and shoots him in the head. Sigh.
The Hounds are rounding up mutants to infect them with the technovirus as they have Warlock as their prisoner.
Toombs makes his grand, technovirus enhanced entrance. Toombs is wearing a suit made from Warlock.
TBC in a couple of weeks…