Despicable Deadpool #288

DEADPOOL KILLS CABLE pt II

Written by Gerry Duggan
Penciled by Scott Koblish
Cover by David Lopez
Published Oct 25, 2017

   Cable sits in prison, accused of being Stryfe, and warning the TVA officer that Deadpool is probably on his way. The officer doubts this being able to happen until Cable explains how. Using the Avengers database to map known past TVA encounters, getting information out of that person, and now he's probably about to walk through the door. 

ALWAYS with the glowing eye...

   Meanwhile, Deadpool uses the severed head of another officer to gain entry using the retinal scans and is searching for Cable. His story though spooked the guard enough to grant him a phone call. The time traveler calls his very older future self and explains what's happened, but the advice he provides isn't helpful. Either way, the guard gives him a rifle and he steps out of the cells to fight.

Good choice.

   Deadpool is leaving a trail of dead on his way through the prison. Still equipped with Cable's time traveling arm, he continues his murder trek until finally he sees him. Stabbing the guard, he puts a gun to Cable's head. As he prepares to fire, Cable congratulates him for almost pulling it off. But in the process, speaks some words that immediately puts the arm back in his control. He then uses it to beat the undying motormouth. He calls for his AI Belle to run disenfectant protocols. She puts the little devil Deadpool AI in the wood chipper for a quick Fargo joke.

Put him in the woodchipper, eh?

   Cable rips his arm off Wade and reattaches it. He lowers his machine gun and tells him that when he wakes up, there's gonna be a lot of questions about Stryfe. If he doesn't like it, he's going to end his Deadpool problem once and for all. He squeezes the trigger, and with that we're left to be continued.
   One of my younger forays into comics was associated with the end of the New Mutants. Issue 98 introduced us to old Wade Wilson, and an X-Force series later, kept him voiced for a long time by his creator Rob Liefeld. I complained loudly about Gerry Duggan's writing in the past but he's solidly brought this character's voice to him in a serious and still quippy way. For a long time he seemed just like a Joker/Punisher hybrid, but a lot less maniacal. This time around, Duggan's totally getting it and deserves to be recognized for it. I give this one a 10/10.

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