Enigma
Cable is doing a little field trip tour around Europe: he's been in London, now he's packing his bags, with the company of his biography writer Ms. Irene Merryweather, and going to little village, Switzerland, to enjoy hot chocolates and skiing in the Alps...not quite, since Pierce, Shaw and the Hellfire minions set camp in the mountains, looking for Apocalypse's lair and Cable is at their tails, so a lot of action in this issue. This marks the departure of James Robinson from the pen, being replaced by Joe Casey, who did a good job developing some aspects of the plot, especially when it comes to this whole messianic side of Cable (he has a "cult" of believers that are willing to aid him in his quest to destroy Apocalypse) also Irene Merryweather with her big admiration for Cable. Unfortunately, this issue was tainted with several unnecessary remarks and recapitulations, there's a whole page with what happened in issues 48 to 50, so it tends to be dregged and at times boring, but that's my opinion, I don't like this kind of constant reminders narrative structure, others do. Other thing that I quite didn't enjoy was the pace of the story: it felt like there was no balance, calm, explosion, calm, action, boring conversation, calm again, the transition from one scene to another wasn't done well. Ladrönn did a terrific job here especially in the scenes where he can show technology and landscapes, though he doesn't fare well with action scenes, there're lots of splashes and feels like blurry. Wrapping up, this is definitely a good sequence to what Robinson was doing (there's also a "Special thanks to James Robinson"), but somethings bug me in this story, like the character Ch'Vayre or the fact that Cable agreed to bring Irene together with him, this decision in the long run can prove to be disastrous, since he's only trying to bring down by himself the Hellfire Club and Apocalypse, also there're some dialogues that don't fit (or because it's too moralist or too boring/repetitive), like Irene and Cable discussing with it's ethical for him to peep into a guy's mind to discover his secrets or Shaw and Pierce fighting over who's in charge and who's bigger, but in the end Joe Casey did a good job, even introducing a new character that will (or not) help Cable and the evolution of Irene/Cable relationship.