Cable 24 Review
I am modifying a review I posted on another forum. I am posting this after Second Coming is completed but I will limit this review to events as of this issue. So no Spoilers.
As a big Cable fan I felt that this series was a little weak. Though I do feel that's because it was trying to be too many things at once. Cable has been hunted before by lots of different people but he was never hounded like how Bishop did. Bishop literally destroyed the world so there would be no where to hide except in the future North American wasteland, and based on what he knew of Cable he could predict where he would go. Cable is usually depicted as the man of action, the old soldier doing the dirty work. The series did show his resourcefulness in that he survived all the while caring for this little girl, but the focus was split between Cable's struggle to keep him and the girl alive, Bishops crusade to save the world from this girl and Hope's growth from infant to capable young woman or good soldier as Cable calls her.
I thought the last issue was good overall, with Cables inner commentary about his opinions and misconceptions about the X-Men from the legends he grew up with and later how his own experience with them changed them. The final victory over Bishop was good, leaving him trapped in some futuristic wasteland with no way to follow or even return. In the most touching part Hope calls Cable dad cementing their relationship not as commander and soldier but father and daughter.
