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Cable: Love and Chrome
Marvel's tech-powered time-traveling X-Man Cable finds himself in his most harrowing challenge yet!
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 caught in the midst of a civil war that will change his life forever! Because Cable is no longer alone: He’s fighting to protect an entire city infected with the same disease as him. And as he battles side by side with Resistance leader Avery Ryder, Cable’s new cause will become personal in ways not even he could expect. With their own mortality staring them in the face, can these star-crossed soldiers survive against the mutated horrors of the Prime Conclave?
COLLECTING: Cable: Love and Chrome (2025) 1-5
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 caught in the midst of a civil war that will change his life forever! Because Cable is no longer alone: He’s fighting to protect an entire city infected with the same disease as him. And as he battles side by side with Resistance leader Avery Ryder, Cable’s new cause will become personal in ways not even he could expect. With their own mortality staring them in the face, can these star-crossed soldiers survive against the mutated horrors of the Prime Conclave?
COLLECTING: Cable: Love and Chrome (2025) 1-5
168 pages, Paperback
Published September 23, 2025
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September 3, 2025
A derivative story with a predictable twist but I really liked the artwork.
December 26, 2025
I was expecting more from this book. Cable always seems to look cool on the covers a grizzled old warrior, with a metal arm and big futuristic guns. Unfortunately, the story does not deliver for me.
This is a standard timeloop story. Anyone who has read any of these will have seen the way the story was going to go. It was the Timeslide story that moved this up from a 2.5 to 3 stars for me.
To save millions Cable must jump into an unknown future, but he is hunted by an unknown enemy. However, he might also find someone worth fighting for, and how far will he go to fight for her? Not too much of a spoiler it is called Love and Chrome.
The Timeslide series sees Cable and Bishop team up, but it is really a preview of things to come in Marvel. Quite nicely done though. The book finishes with a variant cover gallery.
This is a standard timeloop story. Anyone who has read any of these will have seen the way the story was going to go. It was the Timeslide story that moved this up from a 2.5 to 3 stars for me.
To save millions Cable must jump into an unknown future, but he is hunted by an unknown enemy. However, he might also find someone worth fighting for, and how far will he go to fight for her? Not too much of a spoiler it is called Love and Chrome.
The Timeslide series sees Cable and Bishop team up, but it is really a preview of things to come in Marvel. Quite nicely done though. The book finishes with a variant cover gallery.
May 16, 2026
If you expect a Cable story to feature lots of bad-idea time travel, you won't be surprised by Love and Chrome. The book takes the title seriously, though: there's a decent love story in here too.
Cable time travels to escape one bad future scenario and ends up in a small town besieged by a big mean company. The locals all have Cable's brand of techno-organic virus, which isn't really explored as much as you'd hope. Several battles and twists later and Cable's back on the run through time. ()
That main chunk of story is much better than the one-shot team-up for Cable and Bishop. Basically, they do a greatest hits tour through time for... reasons. Honestly can't recall.
Cable time travels to escape one bad future scenario and ends up in a small town besieged by a big mean company. The locals all have Cable's brand of techno-organic virus, which isn't really explored as much as you'd hope. Several battles and twists later and Cable's back on the run through time. ()
That main chunk of story is much better than the one-shot team-up for Cable and Bishop. Basically, they do a greatest hits tour through time for... reasons. Honestly can't recall.
October 6, 2025
In the time after I quite reading comics and before I started reading them again Cable became a thing and I was never all that fond of the gruff exterior, the huge guns, the old man strength. He mostly didn't do anything for me until I read Gerry Duggan's Cable series. Those twelve issues really humanized Cable for me and Love and Chrome gave me a similar vibe. I was kind of dreading reading this through the first issue but really fell for it and for Cable as a lonely, tragic figure as this series plays out.
April 21, 2026
A Middle-of-the-Road Nostalgia Trip
Cable was one of those quintessential 90s heroes that a very specific kind of comic fan grew up with. I personally fell off his books somewhere along the way — they always felt inconsistent, and he never quite plugged into the larger X-Men tapestry the way you'd hope. Events like Age of Apocalypse would roll around and I'd find myself completely lost. So it's been a while since I've picked up anything Cable-related.
What caught my eye here was the premise: an old-fashioned, earnest take on Cable's time-traveling abilities, and the way that power gets woven into something resembling a love story. That was enough to land it on my pull list at my local shop, and I sat down and read the whole thing in one go once I got around to my backlog!
Can't say I came away terribly impressed, but I want to be fair about what's working and what isn't. David Pepose — who does genuinely great work, especially on Space Ghost and other indie projects — is a solid writer, and you can feel him reaching for something here. The central conceit, falling in love across time, colliding and recollecting across different eras of Cable's life, has real potential. The problem is that a five-issue series is kind of the worst possible format for this story. It's too long to skate by on a single punchy idea the way a one-shot could, but way too short to actually develop the time travel mechanics and the emotional beats the way a 12-issue maxi-series might have. You end up somewhere in the middle, with ideas that feel half-formed and a romance that doesn't land with the weight it needs to.
The art is serviceable but not memorable. It felt like the artist was working fast — there's nothing that jumps off the page or sticks with you after you close the book. The inking and colors are actually pretty solid though, and carry more of the visual load than the pencils do.
Ultimately this is a three-star book in every sense — not bad enough to regret reading, not good enough to recommend without caveats. If you're already a Cable fan, it's a pleasant afternoon. If you're not, there's probably a better entry point.
Cable was one of those quintessential 90s heroes that a very specific kind of comic fan grew up with. I personally fell off his books somewhere along the way — they always felt inconsistent, and he never quite plugged into the larger X-Men tapestry the way you'd hope. Events like Age of Apocalypse would roll around and I'd find myself completely lost. So it's been a while since I've picked up anything Cable-related.
What caught my eye here was the premise: an old-fashioned, earnest take on Cable's time-traveling abilities, and the way that power gets woven into something resembling a love story. That was enough to land it on my pull list at my local shop, and I sat down and read the whole thing in one go once I got around to my backlog!
Can't say I came away terribly impressed, but I want to be fair about what's working and what isn't. David Pepose — who does genuinely great work, especially on Space Ghost and other indie projects — is a solid writer, and you can feel him reaching for something here. The central conceit, falling in love across time, colliding and recollecting across different eras of Cable's life, has real potential. The problem is that a five-issue series is kind of the worst possible format for this story. It's too long to skate by on a single punchy idea the way a one-shot could, but way too short to actually develop the time travel mechanics and the emotional beats the way a 12-issue maxi-series might have. You end up somewhere in the middle, with ideas that feel half-formed and a romance that doesn't land with the weight it needs to.
The art is serviceable but not memorable. It felt like the artist was working fast — there's nothing that jumps off the page or sticks with you after you close the book. The inking and colors are actually pretty solid though, and carry more of the visual load than the pencils do.
Ultimately this is a three-star book in every sense — not bad enough to regret reading, not good enough to recommend without caveats. If you're already a Cable fan, it's a pleasant afternoon. If you're not, there's probably a better entry point.
February 12, 2026
This time Cable gets to love! So often our time-travelling hero has to sacrifice everything so that the timeline remains stable, which ultimately is what happens here, but he does get some time with Commander Avery Ryder, of Sanctuary City, a city for being fighting the same T-O disease Cable does. Then we get all the wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff, leading to him being the cause as well as the solution. LOL typical Cable.
But a good read nonetheless.
Recommend.
But a good read nonetheless.
Recommend.
June 21, 2025
art and colours are fine.
story was okay.
cable Is sent to the future abd is being hunted by CICADA. Meets a new love. calls him cowboy.
turns out cable is responsible for the techno organic virus in this future causing the love to become Cicada which was a good twist but became obvious as the series went on.
story was okay.
cable Is sent to the future abd is being hunted by CICADA. Meets a new love. calls him cowboy.
turns out cable is responsible for the techno organic virus in this future causing the love to become Cicada which was a good twist but became obvious as the series went on.
October 4, 2025
This is classic 90's Cable time travel bulls#*t...
Not much to say besides all time travel stories loop back on themselves. Nice to give Cable a love interest. Nice to use time travel to make this story meaningless in the overall Cable timeline.
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Bonus: Take a drink every time 'Cowboy' is spoken...
Not much to say besides all time travel stories loop back on themselves. Nice to give Cable a love interest. Nice to use time travel to make this story meaningless in the overall Cable timeline.
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Bonus: Take a drink every time 'Cowboy' is spoken...
September 6, 2025
1.75
I'm not convinced AI didn't write this.
I'm not convinced AI didn't write this.
December 23, 2025
Not really in love with the art. Time travel HiJinx that is a little predictable.
December 24, 2025
La idea de meter a Cable en una romcom, quizá no sea algo "imposible" de conseguir que funcione, pero lo pusieron de la forma más aburrida de leer posible
February 12, 2026
I really dislike time travel stories. There are almost always no lasting consequences. Same with this. Sigh
February 17, 2026
This was a pretty good, self-contained little love story, full of time travel shenanigans. And the artwork is really good throughout, too.
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