Marvel Comics & S.W.O.R.D. #4 Spoilers & Review: The King In Black Before The Hellfire Gala! Plus A Tease Of Magneto & More Things To Come?

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Marvel Comics and S.W.O.R.D. #4 Spoilers and Review follows.

The King In Black Before…

The Hellfire Gala!

Plus A Tease Of Magneto and MORE Things To Come?

We open with a dramatis personae and creators credits page then…


…we get to the action where a symbiote controlled Cable has most of SWORD captive.

Elsewhere, we learn of Abigail Brand’s plans for humanity and mutants; while parts of the plan are supportable not all  of it is particularly in terms of timing during King in Black.

Wiz-Kid comes to the aid of his time as…

…he militarizes Mentallo’s mech!

Elsewhere, a symbioted Cable toys with Manifold by bodysliding and attacking him over and over, but…

….teammate Frenzy had pretending to be captive, surprises Cable and crushes his tech arm to stop the bodysliding…

…allowing Manifold to…

…purge the symbiote from the teammate Cable.

While Kid Cable may have been purged from the symbiote and its influence, his time with SWORD appears to be coming to an end.

Magneto enters the fray and orders Fabian Cortez to be restored to life by The Five with a talking to in his resurrected future?!

Next up is S.W.O.R.D. #5 on shelves on April 21, 2021.

The Pulse:

A frenetic and high-octane issue with solid art and decent cliffhanger. Entertaining. 7 out of 10.

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