I'm saying, Cable, we have to go back...to the future!

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The X-related scans of the week, both featuring interplay of the present and the future.

First up, Part 2 of "Second Coming" in Uncanny X-Men #523 by Matt Fraction and Terry Dodson.

Cable and Hope have returned to the present. Cable's all-business, but Hope is distracted (as can be seen in the preview, where she's mesmerized by a huge amount of beauty products in a convenience store) by the paradise of consumer goods that is our era, since she grew up travelling through a series of increasingly desolate futurescapes.




Godamnit, do you know how much that stuff costs?

The next day:




The villains show up, of course, but luckily the X-Men alpha team (Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Psylocke, Angel, Colossus, X-23) does as well.



Next up, four from Wolverine: Weapon X #12, by Jason Aaron and Ron Garney, as Wolverine and New Cap take on the Deathloks.


The Deathloks have been sent back in time to kill a bunch of future important people, Terminator-style, trying to eliminate the anonymous "General" commanding the resistance. New Cap is the prime suspect, so they go after him, catching him at a Russian restaurant in New York (he occasionally is overcome with the need to have some shchi. He dodges their guns, but is blown into a subway station.

Meanwhile, Wolverine has been contacted by Miranda, a waitress who keeps getting psychic flashes of future events (she's a badass commando in the future), and warns Logan about the Deathloks' mission.



Logan joins the fight in progress below. One the Deathloks grabs him:




Well that took an oddly philosophical turn.

This being one of her soldiers in the future. Flashforward. And then flashback:



And indeed they have, in the future. To be continued.

Comments

[northstarfan]

Chuck Austen wrote a line between Husk and his creepy Mary Sue a nurse about mutants not being able to get AIDS, most likely to put down any concerns over the fact that he'd have Angel spending the rest of his run on Uncanny bleeding on/into people due to his kewl new healing factor.

[shadowpsykie]

but his blood is HEALING not aids infected... eitehr way, that statement makes NO SENSE at all.

[northstarfan]

You have summed up much of Mr. Austen's run quite nicely.

[shadowpsykie]

i actually kinda liked that run. i didn't think that Annie was a mary sue (though to be honest her son had a bigger impact on thigs than she did) but i could have done without her.

[northstarfan]

When it gets to the point that the writer has put his way too perfect OC into a position where she gets the character the author most identifies with (Austen said in interviews that Havok was his favorite) while keeping her completely blameless in the break-up of a long-time canon couple, I call Sue. That she was named after his wife on top of that was just kind of 'ew'.

Even aside from that, I always found Austen's run kind of skeevy, what with everyone getting evil/abusive dads and the airsex.

[okkult3000]

Also, she was based on his wife.

[northstarfan]

Amazing. I haven't touched an Austen book since '04 and yet I suddenly feel like I need a shower.