Cable #158-159

PAST FEARS pts IV and V

Written by Lonnie Nader and Zac Thompson
Penciled by German Peralta
Covers by Daniel Warren Johnston
Published June 20 and July 18, 2018

   As a boy, Cable again runs from demons he see’s far in advance. Decades later, he prepares to practice with his then new X-Force team. His incredible upgrades to the team’s danger room is impressive, even when forced to deal with the merc with a mouth, Deadpool. They eventually defeat him, but are shocked when they see a reanimated Warlock. The problem is that this isn’t a drill - Metus, Cable’s forever stalking techno virus has caught up with him once again.

By the way, guys. This is real.

   Warlock takes it to the untrained group until Cable is finally able to get into the chamber to help them. There's something familiar about the boys face it displays though. After the situation is dealt with and the team licks it’s wounds, he fails to disclose to his students just what exactly is going on.

Don't worry about it. I got it under control... Really. I do.

   2000 years in the future, young Nathan walks with his friends once again when they mock his cybernetic arm but a fellow mutant friend takes up for him. As he ventures back home, he overhears his parents Cyclops and Jean discussing his Apocalypse defeating future. He runs away but as fear begins to spread, the virus takes hold for the first time.

Out in those damn woods again.

   Alone in the woods, he tries to deal with his newfound problem alone when Metus, the boy who took up for him, is attacked by the cybernetic appendage. The monster writhes in agony, hurting his friend as well as himself in the process.

"I think we're alone now... NOT!"

   He eventually calls for help, and his parents run to his aid to defeat it. Later, Metus limps home and is contrastingly rejected by his mutant hating parents. He vows to hunt Cable down all through time to repay him for the infection.

It'll be my life's work!

   The issue wraps in the present. Cable and Hope use their telekinesis together to finally expel the virus from the boy. What they're left with is an innocent child who's now an orphan. Cable and Hope bodyslide with the boy and teleport him to the X-Mansion in New York. With that, Cable is finally able to move on as this issue and story arc come to a final conclusion.

I'll bring you to a place where more people can make fun of you.

   You know, one of the cooler thing about these two writers is that they coincidentally reference an era that comics were so big in my life. They seem to have a connection to the Liefield X-Force days and they're not afraid to shed light on it pretty constantly. That's a great thing if you're an older reader like me. German Peralta's artwork isn't necessarily groundbreaking but it's certainly on par with what's in Marvel's stable at the moment. I live what they have going on here... I give these two books a 9/10.

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