Despicable Deadpool #290

DEADPOOL KILLS CABLE pt IV

Written by Gerry Duggan
Penciled by Scott Koblish
Cover by David Lopez
Published Dec 13, 2017

   Cable tells Deadpool he needs a safe place to make a call so they head for Wade's safehouse, in an abandoned subway station. He dials up Old Man Cable, a less fortunate version of him from the future. Telling him they need to talk in person, the old man directs him to the junction box - 67 years from now. They walk the tracks and Belle shoots them back to the future...(heh, get it?!)

"What... do our kids become assholes or something?"

   They arrive in the nuclear winter of 2084, quickly attacked by vampires. They start blowing them away until one recognizes Deadpool. The vampire tells him Blade blamed him for Shiklah and Dracula's courtship, a little toss to a dozen or so issues back. Finally they get to Penn Station, now a safe house for the hundreds of versions of Cable from alternate timelines where they all essentially converge. They enter the room and Cable reminds Deadpool to keep his mouth shut.

I know this is tough for you, but please be quiet.

   Before they board the train, Deadpool asks why they can't just kill one of these Cables. He explains that Stryfe has to have THE heart from HIS body. The extra precautions are because the donor heart he takes must suffer no consequences. Finally they make landfall in a boat's hull among crates and other storage. They climb up to see the last living Cable, taking a cruise to see the heat death of the universe.
   As he complains about being the one to give up his heart, Wade shoots him in the head and starts the carving process. Cable hates the fact that in the end, it's Deadpool who kills him. 

Well, that's that, Mattress Man.

They return to the present with the heart in a pillowcase, and abandon ship. The issue wraps with Cable telling him he plans to face Stryfe with the merc with a mouth. If it's Cable's heart he wants, he's clearly getting back into the cloning business. We'll have to wait for that though, as this issue is left to be continued.
   So as the cover clearly reads, Deadpool does in fact kill Cable. Although it wasn't the present version, who also happens to have his own series which I review as well, it was some version of our favorite time hopping mutant. I mentioned the other day about how I used to go back and forth on this series - one month it was good, the next bad. Maybe I've just worked up a tolerance for it though because now, I love it. Gerry Duggan continues the mastery of this character and I don't know if I could trust anyone else to be in control of him. This particular issue was no exception. I give it a 10/10.

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