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I miss the good ol' days when Cable was drawn by Igor Kordey.

Those WERE the days.

I actually thought that issue 6 was done really well after thinking very little of 1-5.

But then I thought X-Force 7 was downright great, so there have been comics moving past their set ups left and right lately.

I never understood the basic premise of this series... so there's one mutant baby left in the world and Cyclops gives her to Cable to take into a dangerous apocalyptic future? (And not even one he seems to be very familar with.) Of course, Cable was given away as a baby to live in a hellish future, but he had a disease that forced him to. Shouldnt this baby be somewhere safe? Like, whatever happened to Cable's utopian nation from Cable & Deadpool? I missed something, I guess.

Rather than run from Bishop why doesn't Cable fight him? Shouldn't Cable be able to beat Bishop?

i agree that the handling of Bishop's motivations and personality has just been terrible in this series. the premise is decent even though it feels like it came out of thin air (he was made into a traitor despite never having a traitorous bone in his body up until Messiah CompleX). instead of showing the complexity of emotion that would drive a man to do such things, Bishop has been written like a madman with no compunction about killing people he once regarded as his friends. if this Bishop-turns-bad idea had been handled with more thoughtfulness and care, i wouldn't mind it so much. but instead it just feels like a waste of a good character.

Well the Rahne look is a costume she wears over her fur...seriously.

Doens't make it less garbage looking, but it makes me feel better that they didn't turn her into Ratsbane or something.

Why do they all have the glowy eyes thing going on?

Because it's BADASSKEWL, Michael.

Duh.

Bishop = Wile. E. Coyote
Cable = Roadrunner

Which is funny, because RoadRunner is a hi speed Cable internet provider.

Also, I liked Olivetti's art on X-Factor, before he opted for this psuedo-photo realistic style.

I think that something that people forget about Wolverine is that he's intelligent, but he's simple. He's not any sort of book-smart: He's a rustic dude who's set in his ways and if he sees someone he considered an ally(I'm assuming) trying to murder what's being perceived to be the savior of the mutant race, of COURSE he's going to be sickened.

And also Bishop just shot him in the fucking face. Of course he's going to be pissed off. He's not Mother Theresa, for Christ's sake.

Normally. I would just say it doesn't matter that much because Cable and Bishop are both worthless characters created in a worthless era. However, I kind of grew to not mind Bishop in whatever that "cops in mutanttown" book was called, and even came to not loathe Cable when he was paired with Deadpool.
Though if that Coyoye/Roadrunner thing Ron says above were to be on purpose, and a bit more zany and over the top, I'd probably pick this book up.

In any event, the issue was an improvement over the first five, although much of #6 was similar to this one, at least the good parts of #6. Swierczynski is quite adept at character work, which is why I really don’t blame him for the annoying set-up of the book, which does no justice to his character work, because Bishop and Cable are placed in such silly circumstances. I suppose I could blame him for Bishop’s characterization, but who knows how editorially driven stuff like that is.

Why are you still reading it then Brian?

I guess Wolverine started shaving his hairy arms.....

Didn't Ariel Copiletti used to be a decent artist in the 'Jim Lee School' of artists?

What happened?

The art looks terrible and is very stiff and lifeless.

whoa! Wolfsbane looks like Batgirl's dog... .. or Batgirl in a Doberman helmet... What happened to her tail? Was it snipped? Poor Rahne - DoberGirl..

Blackjak: Rahne is wearing a stealthsuit or something...or a wickedkewl costume ...hasn't really been explained, but she's still furry when she takes that off.

Scavenger: And her tail?

No one's mentioned the worst thing about this book.

Before Messiah Complex, Bishop only ever featured in one very very good comics story ever, and that was Morrison's "Murder in the Mansion" arc... in which it was established, quite expertly and reasonably, that Bishop's mind can't be read if he doesn't want it to -- NOT because he has psychic barriers up, but because his aikido-style mutant power of absorbing energy so that he can use it himself applies to mental energy as well as physical.

I'm not the continuity fundamentalist type, but it pisses me off when writers (and more so editors) don't know their characters.

I mean okay, there are plenty of reasons to dislike this title, it's nearly the bottom of the barrel as auxillary X-books go anyway, but that's what really killed this issue for me.