KING-SIZE CABLE #1 ADVANCE REVIEW

[Blake Petit]

Review by: Blake M. Petit Blake@comixtreme.com
Quick Rating: Good
Title: The Wolf Pit
Rating: T+

Bishop hunts Cable through time!

Writer: Duane Swierczinski
Pencils: Ken Lashley
Inks: Paul Neary
Colors: Frank D’Armata
Letters: Cory Petit
Editor: Nick Lowe
Cover Art: Ken Lashley
Publisher: Marvel Comics

Bishop continues to search for Cable throughout the future that he’s no longer familiar with. As he hunts for clues further in the future as to where Cable will show up in the less-distant future, which is his past, he… man, that sentence is kind of confusing, isn’t it? But honestly, it makes more sense when you read the comic.

I haven’t been the biggest fan of the ongoing Cable title, but this one-shot is fairly solid. Bishop hunts Cable. Cable has set traps. Bishop hunts some more. Cable and baby face mutant monsters. As an action piece, and a character piece, it works pretty well. Plus, it’s mostly a standalone story which I appreciate.

It’s not flawless, however. When the baby first showed up in Messiah Complex, she was a newborn. Now, unless there was some sort of time lapse that I missed (possible, I suppose, when you’re dealing with a time-travel story), she’s a toddler, crawling around and talking in the sort of pidgin baby speak you used to get in Mort Weisinger Superman comics back in the day. The other issue is that, at least on the surface, it doesn’t really appear to advance the overall story much. Bishop does find out one little nugget of info about Cable’s situation, but it’s not something that needed a full double-sized issue to get across.

The artwork is pretty good. Ken Lashley does a particularly good job with the baby’s expressions, and the design for the bear-monster is kind of cool. His Bishop is a little generic, but that’s probably more due to the current character model than Lashley’s pencils. I rather miss his District X look.

A good issue, and fans of the series will probably like it more than I did.

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[Ben Lehnsherr]

Comics and baby knowledge never has mixed all that well.