Review: Cable #1

After everything that’s gone on in X-men, we now get to see what’s become of Cable and the baby or ginge as I’m calling her till she gets a name. (Joan, Jane or some think with J? ) So here he is, the time lost soldier with ginge and in a messed up future,

The art was very nice. I think there as been a kind of a western tone to character of Cable (Eastwood any one?) I thought that the art followed this tone quite well with the opening pages, with Cable painted as a lone gunman. I just hope they can keep this going with a future settings with out going all Star Wars .

As for the story, what happend was not much. The baby didn’t cry in her own time (g3ek: Who’s to say that the normal MU is her time, bhuddwha?) but she does now, oh and cable doesn’t like changing nappies.

What was cool was the brief moments with bishop, now with added abnormal sized metal arm and learning how long has he been chasing Cable for.

I think it would be good to have one of the themes from C&D continue in this book. What is that theme?, Well it’s why does Cable think his way is the right way? I mean what give Cable the right to destroy Bishops time line through his attempt at saving this baby girl, just because he thinks she may save mankind? Does he know for sure, that saving this baby is the right thing to do? Bishop certainly doesn’t.

I would have liked a bit more of a hint to what’s in store for us readers and a little less catch up from X-men MC. An old man and a baby is not really a jumping of the shelf comic for new readers and I think there should have been a bit more following up plot for those of us who know what to expect from such a title. now over to g3ek for his thought on the matter.

G3ek: Nice art I suppose. As a first issue, it really didn’t grab me and say “Hey fanboy, keep reading me, I’m going to take you on a great journey.” After I finished reading this issue I was bit, you know ‘meh’, I mean is it just going to be Lone Wolf and Cub set in space? Are we going to find out why Bishops gone a bit crazy for? Is the baby Jean or maybe Rachel? Is bhuddwha going to punch me in the face? Do I really care about where this storyline is going to go? The answer to the latter is probably not.

Torchwood: “Something Borrowed”

Well, I’m not sure what to make of this episode really. I think all the light hearted stuff does not work half as well as the darker episodes and after the death of Owen three parter, I’m not sure how well this one follows them up .

Even though this is meant to be a big deal with the wedding and all, this really felt like a filler episode. All the tension between Jack and Gwen was fun to watch as always, Although if I was Rhys and I saw Gwen looking at Jack like, just after I had saved her life with an alien gizzmo I would have told her to go fucking swing and lamped Jack again .

The longer owen stays dead the more I like him, even though he did not have much to do in this episode. His one liners are always funny and I think dry wit suits the dead.

Although, had I been there, I would have found all the welsh voices harder to deal with than any shape shifting alien .Sorry this is not much of a review really but it was not much of an episode .

Cable #1

So here we are, Cable #1, hmmm. I know Bhuddwha a bit upset because, this new issue of Cable means the end of his previous series Cable and Deadpool, which he liked a lot. Me? I feel like it’s the 90’s all over again, what with this and X-force both starting again. The question is what makes this new series any different to his previous (canceled) series, but before I answer that question, Bhuddwha has some stuff to say…

A few things to say before I read cable #1
Well yes i am a little upset to see deadpool take his leave but at least he is getting his own comic ( in fucking September though bit of a wait ) but after 50 issues of C&D, I want to see how much of what Cable was about is carried over to his new book, although I’m thinking it won’t be much. Also it wasn”t until after reading X-position (A column on CBR) that I went back to X-men #207 and saw that indeed bishop did lose his right arm.

Lowe had this to say “Check out “Cable” #2 for an explanation of how Bishop survived his brush with Predator X and escaped Muir Island!”
I’d remembered seeing a pic that i think was from Cable #2 of our hero facing off against a man with a metal arm.

So is bishop the opposite of cable then? One being black and the other one white, one trying to save the baby and the other trying to kill it, one with a metal left arm the other with a metal right arm? and both from opposing time lines .

and lastly please please please dont let the powerfull ginger baby be Jean Grey .

I’ve promised g3ek that I would hit him in the face if the baby is Jean reborn. So thats maybe something good if it does turns out to be Jean.