Cable: Love and Chrome (2025) #1

Cable: Love and Chrome (2025)

by David Pepose, Mike Henderson (artist), Ian Churchill (cover_art)

MARVEL'S MOST EXTREME MUTANT RETURNS! He's been a soldier. An X-Man. A protector of the timestream. But even from his earliest days, the mutant known as Cable has been living on borrowed time, waging a lonely war against the ravages of the Techno-Organic Virus. Yet when a high-stakes mission in the future goes catastrophically awry, Cable is left stranded in the dystopian city of Salvation Bay - and will find himself caught in the midst of a civil war that will change his life forever. Get ready for big action, bigger threats and the biggest guns in the Marvel Universe, in this epic new series from Ringo Award-winning writer David Pepose (PUNISHER, SAVAGE AVENGERS) and superstar artist Mike Henderson (DAREDEVIL, DEADPOOL VS. OLD MAN LOGAN)!

Genres: Marvel, X Men, Comic Book, Comics

Kindle Edition

Published January 1, 2025

Reviews

[Richard A · Rating 4 out of 5]

interesting Premeir issue but subpar art. not certain ill stay with it.

[Scratch · Rating 2 out of 5]

The first couple pages made me realize, "Oh. This is a Mad Max parody." Cable was strapped to the front of a Sentinel head, as a group of men rode motor vehicles through the desert, very similar to how the protagonist was strapped to the front of a car at the beginning of Mad Max: Fury Road. The several references to the word "chrome" are also a callback to that movie, as well as the idea that an all-male group of biker bigots in the desert are invoking Viking concepts and trying to die an honorable death.

That really brought down my enjoyment a few notches.

Otherwise, the problem with Cable is that he SHOULD be one of my favorite characters. I worship the Summers family. But, he was treated so atrociously by Liefeld and the rest, he is sometimes unrecognizable as a Summers. He is often just a caricature of a shoot-em-up type of soldier character. We all know the jokes about the oversized guns and the excessive number of pockets. The Cable of this issue was very much of that variety.

Sure, there was talk about his T-O virus. And, sure, this issue tried to introduce a new love interest for him.

Never mind that his --deceased?-- wife, Aaliyah, remains a huge question mark, to this day. We never found out what Aaliyah's powers were, even though she was ostensibly fighting for mutant rights, so probably should have been a mutant herself. We got conflicting reports about whether Tyler was Cable's biological son with her, or adopted. I don't understand why we're treating Aaliyah's death as something final and fixed, when Cable time travels all the time, and has been resurrected himself many times. For that matter, in Krakoa's last year, they were capable of resurrecting mutants from the future. So... Why didn't Cable have his wife resurrected during that period?

This issue showed a single frame of Aaliyah dying. I guess that was a nod to continuity, and to say that it's okay for him to maybe get a new girlfriend, because his wife tragically died.

Making a comic book that's trying to capitalize on the success of the Mad Max films is really tasteless and capitalist.

[Andja · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5

[Sam · Rating 2 out of 5]

nathan "i like a woman that can just straight up KILL me" summers

[Powerman61 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Awesome first issue of Cable : Love and Chrome.
Action throughout the issue.
Incredible artwork, and amazing storyline.
Great interaction between Cable and new
acquaintance.

[Jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

4
Better than I thought it would be.