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    Cable #23

    Cable » Cable #23 - Family Secrets released by Marvel on September 1995.

    renchamp's Cable #23 - Family Secrets review

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    Semi-solid

    I love when creators switch up artists for different stories within an issue, especially when consistency is involved. Case in point: this issue. The main story is drawn by the regular Cable artist Ian Churchill. He does his normal/excellent job. He could, no doubt, have also done Domino's story within this issue. I love that a different route was taken. In older issues, different artists would be brought in to draw scenes for the Six Pack. And, since Domino and Grizzly were from the Six Pack, it only makes sense that they'd bring someone else in to cover that story. The thing I love the most is the ability to make it look like the older stories, too; those told by JRJR and MIgnola.

    Complaint: I hate how the Cable and Tyler relationship gets inferentially retconned. First, Cable told everyone that Tyler was a boy he raised as a son. Then Tyler became Cable's actual son. Now, Jeph Loeb wants us to buy into some speculation that Tyler is not Cable's son, though still Jenskot's. Mix in a few more clues from this issue and you've got yourself a recipe for a bad excuse to mix stuff up. (We're really thinking Stryfe is Tyler's father? Really?) Lame. I do, however, love that we're getting back to the Askani mythos.

    On the whole, great book. On the whole, bad idea about Tyler.

    Note: Due to ill placement of characters on the cover, it looks like Rachel is flashing the reader. Not so, that's Blaquesmith's eye.

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