In this review of Blüdwire #3, we learn more about Ace and Keef’s history, as some of their robo-pursuers turn out to be not as destroyed as once thought.
Blüdwire #3
Writer: Pallie Paul Allor
Artist: Ermitis Blanco
Main Cover: Victor Ibáñez
Page Count: 32 pages
Release Date: September 2, 2026
This review contains spoilers
After a brief scene showing one of the robots that’d been chasing Ace and Zora starting to revive, Bludwire #3 goes to Ace, Zora, and Keef. It’s revealed that Ace had killed Keef’s father, and he’s not getting much out of therapy about it.
That’s when three broken-but-not-dead bots show up to start firing on them. Ace is trying to protect Keef, and Zora learns that Ace used to be owned by Keef’s father, Keef had freed her.
As the fight rages on, Ace goes to get Keef into hiding, him having been shot. He then starts accusing her of abandoning him a while back. He insists that he inherited her, and that she had no right to reject him.
After he manages to make her cry, and it’s revealed that the ability to cry and feel pain was part of Ace’s customization, and Keef threatens to kill Ace, Zora snaps his neck.
As the two bots take a moment to decompress from what had happened, they end up getting zapped, netted, and dragged out of the house before it’s set to go up in flames.
The reveal of Keef as an unrepentant incel was something of a shock at first. But soon enough, I just found myself thinking: “Okay, that actually tracks”. And it’s all because of Ace and Zora’s nature. They were built for the pleasure of humans, initially, and had gained sentience. And people like Keef wouldn’t really accept her autonomy, whether she was a normal flesh and blood human or a sex-bot with very human customization.
And speaking of Ace’s customization, there are a few red flags to that. Not about her, specifically, but to the man who originally owned her. He’d intended for her to be able to cry, to feel pain…and Ace outright states that some of the things he liked to do would make that necessary. With her design, I wouldn’t be shocked if he chose her apparent race for fetish reasons.
I can’t say I blame Ace for finally killing her abuser. Or Zora for killing this incel that made her girlfriend cry. It would have been one thing for it to be out of mere jealousy, as she’s clearly jealous of the attention Ace has been giving her old “friend”. She would have held off on doing so if Ace felt entirely safe around him and could fully trust him. But then he breaks that trust and becomes a threat and then, boom. Neck-snap time.
The action was especially well done, here, I think. We’ve got some dynamic poses going on, as Ace and Zora fight off their attackers. The fight is frenetic as hell, and the house, even before the self destruct at the end, is pretty effectively wrecked. Among the casualties of this fight: that place’s property value.
Though Blüdwire #3 does end on an ominous note as the two are finally apprehended, presumably to be brought to the same place they’d been trying to avoid since issue #1. The sentience, to the lab, is likely an aberration that needs to be remedied. And these two bots have already been going through so much crap where they turn out to have autonomy, but nobody seems to respect it at all.
It’s a tense cliffhanger to leave off on, for sure, and it’s one I’m eager to see resolved next month. The doctor likely wants the database, but what else do they want from these two?
Final Thoughts
In its 3rd issue, Bludwire brings more danger to our robot protagonists, this time of the incel variety, and it leaves off on one of the main things they definitely didn’t want to happen.
