It’s been a long time since I reviewed a comic. Not a movie or video game based on one, but a legit comic book. I take a look at Cable #6 because it follows one of the most intriguing X-Men characters ever. Cable is the son of Cyclops and Jean Grey who contracts an unheard of techno-organic virus and is sent to the future to save his life. He then comes back to save the world and spend some time with dear old Dad (especially since his Mom is dead for the time being).
The most recent re-launch of the Cable series deals with the newborn, would be mutant messiah being hunted by many different groups including the X-Man turned traitor, Bishop. In order to save the baby, Cable travels into the future (not his though) to get away from the warring factions after the baby. Bishop though is also from the future. And so begins a battle that literally spans time.
This issue had both good and bad points. It was good because it had two different artists working on it to depict the different times. Ariel Olivetti drew the future scenes with Cable and Michel Lacombe drew the present scenes with Cyclops, both looking fantastic, possibly more so because of the contrast between the two. The present part of the issue was about the changes Cyclops had undergone due to world events recently, how he was coping and changing as a leader, and how he still feels guilty for sending Cable away originally (although it was to save his life), and then sending him away again to save another baby (not his this time). The future parts were fewer and farther between since most of the series up to this point had followed Cable (it is his comic after all, the X-Men already have like six others) and only progressed the conflict with Bishop just enough to remind you that there was a conflict with Bishop.
Now for the bad parts. The Cyclops scenes were great and it was good to touch base with the present to see how Cable’s leaving was affecting the team, but this is his comic. His story did not get advanced at all and I am getting tired of this whole thing with Bishop still being carried on. If it does not get resolved soon, I might have to stop picking this comic up because there has to be more to a series than one good guy fighting a good guy turned bad over and over again. The other characters that Cable bumps into along the way are nice, but it still boils down to Cable vs. Bishop and there is not enough there to maintain a long running series.
In the end, pick this up for the great look into Cyclops’ psyche and to catch up some on the events surrounding the X-Men, but if things do not pick up soon, I would not make this comic a regular buy.
-Ray Carsillo
The most recent re-launch of the Cable series deals with the newborn, would be mutant messiah being hunted by many different groups including the X-Man turned traitor, Bishop. In order to save the baby, Cable travels into the future (not his though) to get away from the warring factions after the baby. Bishop though is also from the future. And so begins a battle that literally spans time.
This issue had both good and bad points. It was good because it had two different artists working on it to depict the different times. Ariel Olivetti drew the future scenes with Cable and Michel Lacombe drew the present scenes with Cyclops, both looking fantastic, possibly more so because of the contrast between the two. The present part of the issue was about the changes Cyclops had undergone due to world events recently, how he was coping and changing as a leader, and how he still feels guilty for sending Cable away originally (although it was to save his life), and then sending him away again to save another baby (not his this time). The future parts were fewer and farther between since most of the series up to this point had followed Cable (it is his comic after all, the X-Men already have like six others) and only progressed the conflict with Bishop just enough to remind you that there was a conflict with Bishop.
Now for the bad parts. The Cyclops scenes were great and it was good to touch base with the present to see how Cable’s leaving was affecting the team, but this is his comic. His story did not get advanced at all and I am getting tired of this whole thing with Bishop still being carried on. If it does not get resolved soon, I might have to stop picking this comic up because there has to be more to a series than one good guy fighting a good guy turned bad over and over again. The other characters that Cable bumps into along the way are nice, but it still boils down to Cable vs. Bishop and there is not enough there to maintain a long running series.
In the end, pick this up for the great look into Cyclops’ psyche and to catch up some on the events surrounding the X-Men, but if things do not pick up soon, I would not make this comic a regular buy.
-Ray Carsillo
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