Cable & X-Force #1: Hope finds her father

[salinea]

aka you know the other title by Hopeless that is out this week?

(3 pages & a third)




"... she is exactly like her old man."

Comments

[crabby_lioness]

Omega-level temper tantrum! Duck and cover!

Best Line Of The Year.

[darkknightjrk]

Also: What he was thinking after Avengers Arena #1 came out. :P

[salinea]

Hehe

[theflames]

You win all the internets. Well done.

[salinea]

words to live by.

[big_daddy_d]

Seconded!

[silverhammerman]

I absolutely love Cable's little robo-arm-over-his-regular-arm thing. It cracks me up.

[salinea]

I dig it too!

[terrykun]

It now takes 50% longer for anyone to fully disarm him.

[darkknightjrk]

It was kinda all set-up, but what we did was pretty solid. I liked this. :)

[salinea]

Me, too!

[auggie18]

It'll be interesting to see what they're going to do with Hope now that she's finished what she was created for. (Repowering mutants.) Is there gonna be any more to the mutant messiah or was that pretty much it?

Either way, I'm guessing we're done with the whole "Lights" thing.

[sevarem]

I was thinking that, too. I find her far more interesting now that the whole heavy handed "Messiah" thing is over with. If they're going to use her, I'd like to see her become a fully rounded character, not just a plot device.

I think the Lights, with the exception of Idie, are probably swept under the rug at this point. I'll just pretend they went back to their lives somehow. Except for the dog guy, I guess...

[morwen]

I imagine they are going to pop up at the JGS.

[espanolbot]

Hope: Redundant Messiah!

[leoboiko]

Hope: Unemployed Messiah out for a job!

[darkknightjrk]

I'd read it.

[crabby_lioness]

Layla Miller's done pretty well for herself in the "going beyond just a plot device" category.

[darkknightjrk]

I missed a BIG chunk of all that, so the fact that Layla's all grown up and boinging Madrox is still a little freaky to me. O_O

[roguezombie]

Honestly, even reading X-Factor in real time, Layla/Jamie is still kind of weird and creepy. I will never stop side eyeing PAD for going in that direction.

[sevarem]

I really do want to like this. I liked Hope when she was running around with Cable, despised the character when she wasn't. This might make her interesting again.

[salinea]

Yeah she works better with Cable.

[blunderbuss]

... Yeeeaaahh, I can't imagine why normal humans are scared of mutants, considering that a (justifiably) angry girl can wreck everything in a half-mile radius without really meaning to. o_o

[silverhammerman]

Yeah, I feel like in spite of the heavy handed racism/homophobia metaphor at their heart, the fear of mutants is really pretty justified.

[q99]

Do you know what I'd like to see? A group devoted only to 'dealing with' high level mutants. Like, if a guy shoots spines, or a girl can control the temperature in the room? They not only don't persecute, but wouldn't mind having someone on their side. But people like Cable, Hope, and anyone else of power? They lobby for legal restrictions, fund countermeasure projects, etc..

[blunderbuss]

... That is actually a REALLY COOL idea. Because it just makes logical sense; persecuting all mutants when some of them have totally harmless powers just seems needlessly petty. Focusing on actual dangerous mutants while accepting the low-level ones is just common sense.

Especially since it could create a schism in mutant society - low-level mutants have an equal right to fear really powerful mutants and resent the bad rap they're giving the rest of them. Which means you'd have mutants judging each other and even turning each other in, breaking up mutant solidarity into different facets depending on their power level and perhaps even how they look. (I can imagine some mutants playing up how they're basically normal, unlike those really freaky looking mutants.)

[q99]

Plus they wouldn't exactly have stable relations with anti-mutant groups either.

If I ever get to write X-men, they'd be central to my run.

-low-level mutants have an equal right to fear really powerful mutants and resent the bad rap they're giving the rest of them.-

Exactly :)

Imagine a scene where Wolverine draws his claws on someone he thinks is an anti-mutant bigot, only for the person to geek out over them, and then try to recruit him, citing the time Magneto ripped out his adamantium, and points out people with adamantium claws or phasing are never going to threaten the world, but should play a role in protecting it from those who can.

[lieut_kettch]

I kinda disappointed Nemesis didn't have his starfish with him. His inner monologue during the Nate/Hope reunion would've been entertaining.

[bewareofgeek]

Do we have enough pages left in the scan count to post Nemesis' recruitment?

[salinea]

You've got 3 pages & 2/3rd of a page left.

[grapeweasel]

Her Dad is Nick Fury? I'm confused.....

[salinea]

Nick Fury is also Thor's dad.

[sinisterlink]

Nick Fury is pretty old. He's probably everyone's dad by now.

[salinea]

Amusingly, Nick Fury is also Nick Fury's dad.

[chieflewal]

Yeah I was gonna say, he never decided to wear an eyepatch before so now I'm kind of thinking he's doing it just because someone thinks it looks cool.

[wake_the_dragon]

I wear an eyepatch now. Eyepatches are cool.

[selke]

+1 internet

[sharky_chan]

Wow. Just going to go out on a limb here and assume the artist played MGS4 at some point :X.

http://images.wikia.com/metalgear/images/archive/8/80/20090301210209!Big_Boss_MGS4.jpg

[cypherfdp]

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who thought this.

[ravenrants]

You know, I'm not always sold on Hope, but she throws tantrums like a red-headed Summers kid. Rachel would be proud.

I anyone ever remembered Rachel was a Summers. Which they rarely do.

Still - kick his ass, kid.

[selke]

For some reason this reminds me of the Storm/Cable romance. I don't know why. This is sweet. :D