Comments on: Cable #7 Review

By: Stefan

Stefan — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:15:16 +0000

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.

By: Blackjak

Blackjak — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:48:16 +0000

Scavenger: And her tail?

By: Scavenger

Scavenger — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:26:44 +0000

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.

By: Blackjak

Blackjak — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:35:36 +0000

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

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:30:00 +0000

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.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:01:59 +0000

I guess Wolverine started shaving his hairy arms…..

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:14:45 +0000

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 donâ€™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 Bishopâ€™s characterization, but who knows how editorially driven stuff like that is.

Why are you still reading it then Brian?

By: Jack Norris

Jack Norris — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:20:11 +0000

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.

By: Chris Jones

Chris Jones — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:00:29 +0000

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.

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:21:29 +0000

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.

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:02:47 +0000

Because it’s BADASSKEWL, Michael.

Duh.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:34:34 +0000

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

By: Scavenger

Scavenger — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:45:23 +0000

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.

By: Nick Marino

Nick Marino — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:32:22 +0000

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.

By: R. J. Sterling

R. J. Sterling — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:15:21 +0000

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

By: Hawkeye

Hawkeye — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:19:48 +0000

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.

By: Matt D

Matt D — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:17:11 +0000

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.

By: Tom Fitzpatrick

Tom Fitzpatrick — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:14:12 +0000

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

Those WERE the days.