Cable Returns, and I'm Disappointed
Cable’s back from the dead, proving that Superhero’s can barely stay dead for more than two years. Nathan Askani’son has his sights set on Avengers and his first target is Captain America.
How Cable survived his apparent death in Second Coming is revealed as well as his reason for fighting the Avengers.
This really is a dire comic book. The dialogue has no character or emotion to it, giving off a very cold feel, there isn’t a lot of character aside from standard tropes such as Spider-Man cracking a joke and Wolverine telling him to shut up. Then there is Cable, who seems to have abandoned all logic and reason with his return.
His attack of the Avengers is because of there apparent involvement in the future death of Hope and the holocaust that results because she isn’t there. So he decides his only choice is to capture and kill them before they can. You know instead of telling them about this dangerous future and asking for help. This story feels very immature and incredibly uncharacteristic of Cable.
Cable has had an incredible amount of experience with time travel, did he not even consider the future he ended up could have been an alternate timeline, like in his own mini series, it seems very uncharacteristic that Cable would blindly go into a mission like he seems to here.
The art is of a decent quality but gives a flat tone to a lot of scenes, I really don’t like the way Cable is portrayed in this book, he looks a lot more like a meat head than he did in the past, and has a very odd X-men scar on his arm which seems very odd as well. This book also has one of the most pointless double page spreads I have seen in a while, which I feel was a waste of those two pages.
Overall I really dislike this issue, Cable’s return is very contrived and makes his sacrifice in Second Coming redundant. Added to this Cable is written very badly with his whole reason for attacking the Avengers being misguided. Very disappointing from start to finish.
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