Webster’s defines “vig” (short for vigorish) as “a charge taken (as by a bookie or a gambling house) on bets” or “interest paid to a moneylender.”
Normally, opening with information from the dictionary would be cliché (I mean, it’s still cliché), but it felt important to share because next week’s issue of Uncanny X-Men features a character from Gambit’s past called The Vig. Given we associate Gambit with his trademark playing cards, naming a character connected with him The Vig makes sense, because cards can be used for gambling.
Anyway, this is a story about Gambit’s past catching up with him. Not the helping-the-Marauders-find-the-Morlocks thing. Other stuff.
Check out our exclusive preview of Uncanny X-Men #12, out next week, and keep scrolling for the basic deets.
And for our coverage of Uncanny X-Men #11, click here.
(W) Gail Simone (A) Gavin Guidry (CA) David Marquez
• The smoothest X-Man, Remy LeBeau, A.K.A. GAMBIT, is forced to face his past, as an UNSTOPPABLE force comes to collect a DEBT, whether from the Cajun’s pocket or his HIDE.
• Details of Remy’s life, never before revealed in this thrilling one-shot crime tale, as everyone’s favorite card-thrower faces THE VIG.
RATED T+
In Shops: Mar 26, 2025
$4.99
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