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

[colonel_green]

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

[shadowpsykie]

dawwww, look at cable's wrapping :)

he's such a sweet heart :)

so what's the x-men's reaction to Hope?

[colonel_green]

They only show up at the very end, so no real interactions yet.

[protogarrett]

Oh yeah, Cable will die in this event. Have to twist the knife into Hope after that tender little moment.

[shadowpsykie]

why why why would you say that!

[majingojira]

Frankly, I think that's the best possible option. It's dramatic, advances the story and acts as a reverse fridging.

Everyone wins! (Except the characters it involves).

[pyrotwilight]

Not to mention it might make her crazy evil (for an issue or two at least) to play on the whole Bishop thinks she'll be the Mutant Anti-Christ.

[shadowpsykie]

see below :)

[shadowpsykie]

but then THEY would have to make Hope go Crazy and destroy a planet (Because Womenz is CrAzY.)

i personally think it's going to be Kurt (for some reason i dont see wolvering being too upset that Cable is dead, true they were friends, but they showed cable alive with hope on utopia in the Preview of Second coming)

hmmm i dont have an appropriate Icon to show, crazy....

[protogarrett]

Because I would put money on Cable dying. It would have a dramatic and drastic effect on Commander in Chief of Mutants Scott Summers, daughter-figure Hope Summers, the rest of the X-Men, and eventually Bishop.