Cable Vol. 1: Shining Path (Cable

Cable (1993) #97-100

by David Tischman, David Tischman

A soldier from the future has arrived to save the present from itself. He's an anti-terrorist battling to spread his beliefs and change the world -- by any means necessary. This is the first volume in his new adventures, and is a perfect story for the readers who are flocking to the more mature graphic novels produced by current X-Men writer Grant Morrison.Our story picks up with Cable in Lima, on the trail of international mystery-man Rueben Goldberg. He becomes embroiled in a conflict with the terrorist group known as El Sendero Luminosa, the Shining Path, who are attempting to topple the fragile government of Peru. For reasons of his own, he confronts the communist pretenders and systematically takes them apart, but not before he encounters sexy women, aged scholars and super-powered soldiers committed to their rebellious cause.

Complicating matters, Cable must deal with an unexpected flare-up of the techno-organic virus that has haunted him since childhood. Inexplicably, this unstoppable soldier from the future finds himself helpless in the killing field, a victim of his own infirmity. Will he conquer the virus in time to survive? And what will be left of Peru once he escapes?

Genres: Comics, Marvel, X Men, Graphic Novels Comics, Superheroes

128 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 1, 2002

Reviews

[Komuniststar · Rating 2 out of 5]

Jedan od onih superherojkih priča za koje mi se pari da bi bolje funkcionirale kad bi bile bez supermoći, samo s iznimno sposobnim pojedincima. Da ni Kordejeva crteža vjerovatno ne bi doša do kraja i malog bonusa koji je najbolji dio izdanja.

[Anastasiaadamov · Rating 2 out of 5]

The story was good. I had some problems with following all the action. I kept feeling like I was missing something and had to catch up.
I have some issues the artwork. Kordej's works are very recognizable with chunky characters and muscles. What bugged me the most was actually the coloring and I really did not like how it looked with illustrators firm and dark lines.

[C · Rating 3 out of 5]

Continuing the x-book catch up of '17...

Well, this one is a bit of a mess. A hard to follow story with some odd leaps of logic and weird/off character moments.

That said, I granted it an extra star for trying something different that still made sense for the Cable character. I think this storyline *could* become good and I hope that it does. At the same time, there were so many rough edges in this volume...

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

What a WILD time for the X-men franchise in the early 2000s. There was Grant Morrison on New X-Men, Peter Milligan on X-Force, Joe Casey on Uncanny X-Men, Howard Mackie on the Brotherhood, Muties, Frank Tieri on Weapon X, Geoff John's on Morlocks, etc.

This was an wild idea about Communism being the logical extension of Xavier's dream and Cable's attempt to fulfill it. With the legacy virus removed from his system, he was able to fulfill his potential. And thus, he traveled the world stopping hot wars and spreading the Askani philosophy.

This run occurred right around the time of 9/11, so Tischman left the story early on. The story ends with Cable realizing that he's only destroyed and unmade a lot of things--not solved any problems yet.

[Dimitrije Tucović · Rating 1 out of 5]

Yeah those poor Albanians, they were so sweet and fragile, innocent...
Cable, they didn't kidnap Serbian children and sell their organs because they're evil scum, they did it because they were persecuted you seee.

[Greg · Rating 2 out of 5]

Previously, my only exposure to Cable was his spot in Deadpool's video game and just the general knowledge that his is a bad-ass super-soldier from the future that comes back to the present, sometimes, to prevent some terrible future stuff. The Shining Path is so damn confusing that I don't really know what I just read. Cable, who may still be from the future, fights the Shining Path terrorist group in Peru. I'm not sure what SP's goals are or why Cable finds them to be such a threat. I'm never sure who is the "bad guy" and who is irrelevant. All I know is that Cable dresses like a 1970's transient, befriends the child of the enemy (Well, maybe she's the enemy. I really have no idea what the fuck is going on) and teaches him to meditate and float upside down. You would figure that Volume One would be a good place to pick up Cable, but clearly it didn't work for me. The plot is so scattered and muddled that nothing really makes sense. The most confusing part is that last issue. Apparently, the president of Marvel challenged the Cable team to tell a complete story without any words. What follows seems to be Cable getting mad at a seagull and having some convulsions followed be a double confusing hallucination of some sort of factory/lab where he fights a Minotaur? There is a storyboard that follows containing the writers descriptions to the artist of what to draw, which only further confused me. Maybe I don't have the necessary background to enjoy this book, or maybe it's such a fucking mess that it's unenjoyable.