I admit – I’m not a big Cable fan. Way back in New Mutants when we first met Cable I thought he was going to be this cool non-mutant warrior who wanted to help train young mutants because he lost his mutant son. New Mutants became X-Force, which led to X-Cutioner’s Song which led to lots of crossovers and mini-series and a very confusing future origin story.
My favorite Cable moments were in Mike Carey’s X-Men run when Nathan teamed up with Rogue’s squadron and in Second Coming. Yes, my favorite Cable moment is when he “died” to save Hope. The writing of the difficult Nathan, Scott, Hope dynamic was powerful.
You can’t keep a bad ass cyborg down for long!
Nathan blasted into the Marvel Now in this week’s. Dennis Hopeless. There’s a huge threat and only Cable and his team can stop it – but they’ve been branded terrorists. Hopeless talked with Marvel.com about the Summers family connections – given that Cyclops has become a revolutionary
“I play with that early on. I’d like to do stuff with Cyclops at some point, and we probably will. The plans for that are out [for now] because of what Brian [Michael Bendis is] doing with those characters over in All-New X-Men and Uncanny X-Men. He needs some space to deal with all that. I’m getting the Summers tie and the “What the hell are you doing to our family name?” with Havok. Because Cyclops is off doing this thing, and because of where Havok is, I have him sort of obsessed with the idea that, “obviously whatever Cable is doing is not what it looks like, but I have to be the one that brings it in and figures it out. I need to be the one who solves this problem, because by God the Summers name is not going to be this sullied.”
Havok and the Uncanny Avengers appeared in the premiere issue.
“Yeah, Rick [Remender] was very adamant when I talked to him about Uncanny Avengers being a part of the book, that they’re not cops. They’re not going to just assume that this stuff is all what it is on face value. Because number one, Wolverine’s on the team, and he just led an X-Force where they did a bunch of killing, so they’re not going to immediately think someone that they know to be a hero has turned into a villain. At the same time, Cable refuses to explain himself, and he makes it very difficult on them to accept that what he’s doing must be good, and there are story reasons for that. He’s seeing the future, and the more he explains it, the less likely it is to happen as he’s seeing it. In his mind, everything he’s doing makes perfect sense. [Laughs]”
Cable and X-Force #2 arrives next week.
By Editor