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Black Cat N3 did you think I forgot I was just gonna leave you hanging felicia in peril
in doctor strange's magical neck york brownstown.
I wouldn’t do you like that.
I’m Sasha and we’re going to check back in with the black cat.
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Cliffnotes somebody hired felcia to steal the deed to manhattan from doctor strange
cause he has it for some reason.
We start off right back into the merlins thing Felcia hardy can’t say wizard or sorceror
or magic user she’s too cool for all of that she calls wizards merlin’s a trait
meant to be quirky that makes me want to hire a merlin of my own to make sure she never
says it again.
Felicia and her crew are getting their behinds handed to them by xander the merciless since
he’s been repowered by the relic he stole and Bats who is a ghost dog a ghost hound
goes to investigate the commotion ok so let me explain Bats...the ghost dog.
So Bats appeared in Doctor Strange #381 in 2018 so don;t worry you’re not late if you
were like since when.
Doctor strange was left taking care of him while he was vet which is what he was doing
after was deposed as sorcerer supreme.
So he was still doctor strange.
Strange enchanted him so his barks sound like english which is why black cat will be able
to understand him in this issue.
Bats died trying to defend stephen in a battle against loki who was the sorceror supreme
at the time.
It was too stressful Bats was old and his heart gave out.
Loki felt really bad about this after him and stephen made up “made up” and he renounced
the title Stephen didn’t really want to talk to him though so ended their chat pretty
abruptly and then a few seconds later bats returned as a ghost.
See Loki can do nice things, and that’s why Doctor strange has a ghost dog.
Anyway Bats mistakes black cat for silver sable which annoys her but she uses to her
advantage and Bats is a good dog he wants to help.
She goes hard and has her men unload their clips at xander and toss grenades at him which
looks cool there’s a big explosion but again magic you don’t bring a grenade to a magic
fight you bring a wand or depending upon how the magical lore works just yourself.
If you are quite finished you see.
Also all the destroyed relics my heart hurts.
We then get a flash back of Felicia and her mentor the black fox it’s sweet it builds
up their relationship in a way that feels genuine but it;s also doing the oh he’s
teaching her a lesson she’ll need this issue it’s very mid 2000s sitcom like pysch.
This is an important lesson my dear you’re going to meet someone or something that you
cannot charm with your beauty or beat down with your brass knuckles when that happens
you run and you make that someone or something someone elses problem.
During all this we keep getting hints that he fought dracula man I hope felicia has to
fight dracula.
That would be great.
The crew are trying to escape and there’s one henchmen who’s all pfft magic doesn’t
exist and neither do ghost dogs while all of this is happening.
Let’s see how much you don’t believe in magic when it kills you.
Be floating around in the afterlife like this is just a science I don’t understand yet..
Xander is attacked by all of stephens’ nightmare that we met last issue it;s gross and this
henchmen is still going on about magic not existing.
To the ghost dog.
Listen spectre ima let you finish but you’re just a piece of science we don’t understand
yet.
He actually says Look what people call magic.
Nothing but quantum manipulation of local probability fields making the impossible possible
through applied force of will.
Ok then why can’t you do it.
Science me.
Man I need to calm down I’m about to fight this fictional henchmen.
Xander of course is not down for the count it’s only page 14 but Black cat has actually
been inspired by her henchmen’s talk of probability it’s made her remember she’s
bad luck.
She actually is she has luck powers, most of the time she has them right now that’s
what you need to know.
Also she looks absolutely crazed in this panel.
And I’m nothing but bad luck baby.
So she just goes for it and he all of a sudden can’t do anything nothing is working here’s
the canon explanation She generates bad luck the opposite of so called magic.
Sp cliff notes she is eroding his conscious altering of probability with her unconscious
alterations.
So henchmen is like yeah that cancels out magic but I’m like so they’re just having
magic fight where she turns his spells useless naturally cause she taps into her powers on
instinct.
Which means she just walks up to him and punches him in the face do you feel that’s how her
powers should work mileage varies.
Depending upon your thoughts this could seem really anti climactic or it’s funny and
fun taking out a wizard or sorry merlin with one punch.
They wrap things up the black fox picks them up they have the deed
and he tells them they’re next job is on yancy street which means she’s going to
rob the fantastic four it’s a good thing she’s going to deal with nice guy reed otherwise
she might have ended up accidentally trapped in another dimension.
Also stephen comes back in is like what my home.
I feel like he should have some magical alerts set up to tell him when stuff like this is
happening especially in his super secret treasure room.
Also he has to tell his magic ghost dog not to trust anyone.
So Sonny wasn’t in this issue well I can tell you one thing he better not be relaxing
little issue one throwback joke.
So issue 3 this was solid it will read better in the trade where you can pick it up right
after issue 2 cause with a gap it reads a bit like all set up then really quick wrap
up the punch and how the resolution plays out is definitely a mileage varies thing,
but I think it works for the tone this comic is trying to set up which is like fun action
comedy...so far.
Things can pivot like remember trigun never forget.
So yay next time more heists.
I enjoyed this issue for the most part the whole there’s no such thing as magic when
magic is clearly happening is a huge pet peeve for me and it kept coming up in this issue
so it really brought it down for me but I mean it had a helpful ghost dog I can’t
be mad at that and next issue Sonny’s back I looked ahead.
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