Deadpool E Cable: Frazione di secondo (Deadpool Collection)

Deadpool: Miniseries

by Fabian Nicieza

La strana coppia dell’Universo Marvel torna in azione con un’avventura che non ha confini temporali. Cable ha una visione di un terribile futuro incombente causato dalla morte di un uomo, e sa di doverlo proteggere a ogni costo. Peccato che chi ha ricevuto l’incarico di uccidere quell’uomo sia proprio Deadpool, il Mercenario Chiacchierone… Una storia a spasso nel tempo che riunisce i due antieroi protagonisti del ¬film Deadpool 2, firmata dal cocreatore di Deadpool, Fabian Nicieza, e da Reilly Brown (Spider-Man/Deadpool). [ Deadpool & Split Second (2016) #1-3)

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Comic Book

Kindle Edition

First published October 22, 2015

About the author

Fabian Nicieza is a writer and editor who is best known as the co-creator of DEADPOOL and for his work on Marvel titles such as X-Men, X-Force, New Warriors, and Robin.

His first novel, the Edgar Award-nominated SUBURBAN DICKS, a sarcastic murder mystery, is on sale now from Putnam Books.

The Dicks will return in THE SELF-MADE WIDOW, coming June 21st.

Reviews

[Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars

The beginning was kind of slow, so it didn't grab me right away.
In fact, I read the first issue, put it down, and didn't come back for almost 2 weeks. Not exactly what I'm hoping for when I grab a DP comic, you know what I mean?
Yeah, of course you know!



And maybe part of the problem is that Cable was a thing before I started really getting into comics, so I don't know much about him other than the bare bones stuff.
Truthfully, probably not even that much.



What Anne Knows:
1) He's the son of Jean Grey Madelyn Pryor (JG's clone) & Scott Summers.
From some alternate future timeline...I think. Or not.
2) He's got a metal arm for some reason.
Maybe he chewed it off to escape an elaborate trap!?
3) He's got as many pouches as Deadpool.
Mayhaps they originally met at Pouch-mart?

Ta-da!



So. Yeah, admittedly, I knew nothing about this character beforehand. But who doesn't like learning new things?
Apparently, Cable's mutant power was time travel and telekinesis.
I say was because he'd lost them. Which left him with the power of having a metal arm.
Hell, Bucky makes that shit work! Just sayin...
Ok, because metal arms aren't technically considered a superpower, he also has these flashes of the future. Which, as Deadpool points out, since he's from the future, just means he has the power of being good at history.



After that initial first issue the story really picked up (imho), and I flew through the rest of it. The plot revolves around these two pals looping around in time, and eventually through alternate timelines, blah, blah, blah. So if time travel is a no-go for you, you'll want to avoid this one.
But I liked it.
And while I can't say it's the BESTEST Deadpool story I've ever read, I can say it's the absolute best* Cable story I've ever read!
Pouch Bros, for the win!



*In the interest of total honesty, this is also the only Cable story I've ever read.

[Jeff · Rating 3 out of 5]

The time travel story line has become the tired five dollar hooker of the comics industry – a cheap, re-usable trope with a happy ending that’s rarely, if ever, achieved. (If you thought that was funny, I’m going to steal it from myself and re-use it in my Harley Quinn and Power Girl review).

Fortunately, Deadpool plays it up for laughs and disembowelments.



Deadpool and his old pal, Cable are re-united (“and it feels so good”) because we all need more titles with Deadpool in them in our collective lives, no? There’s some continuity catching up to do between these two before we commence with the mayhem.



*Le sigh*

A swell reunion. Now onto the violence.



It seems that Deadpool and Cable have become stuck in a time loop and each time Deadpool makes a move (i.e. kills someone) they muck up the time stream and sink deeper into the timey whimey mire.



This is Deadpool (and Cable) so the time travel story isn’t paramount here - it’s being reasonably entertained.

Bottom line: Nicieza has always done Deadpool (and Cable) well and here he’s up to the task - equal parts over-the-top cartoony violence, buddy-read and humor. This is an amusing outing for Deadpool and the other guy. Good, not great Deadpool.

[Nicolo · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great start to the second Deadpool Infinite Comic that is exclusive to the Comixology platform because of this was formatted in its proprietary Guided View panel transition. (I reviewed first Deadpool Infinite Comic collection, Dracula's Gauntlet here). This also brought back two staples from Deadpool's 90's heyday, writer and co-creator Fabian Nicieza and his DP's former partner, Cable. To complete the reunion, artist Reilly Brown was also the artist on series Cable and Deadpool which also Nicieza wrote.

I also noted that Cable has remained free of his techno-virus infection and has restored his palsied arm, which came from being cured of it just before Avengers Vs. X-Men. His precognitive abilities appear to be intact, which comes from Dennis Hopeless' Cable and X-Force run. Still, Cable without his cybernetic parts felt a little odd, although he still has his big gun.

If you enjoyed Dracula's Gauntlet like this reader, this is appears to be another good one., at least the first chapter shows indications of it.

[Chad · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was actually a lot of fun. Deadpool cracks a lot of funny jokes, quite a few making fun of Cable and the ridiculousness of all those pouches. The Groundhog Day issue was pretty great. All in all a very solid series for something I thought just might suck.

[Sesana · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would've liked this a whole lot more if there hadn't been quite so much timey wimey crap, and if Cable hadn't spent a large chunk of a rather short miniseries out of service. Because it's a pretty decent take on both characters. No surprise, Nicieza has been here before. And I suppose it wouldn't be a proper tribute to the old Cable and Deadpool if Cable actually was in the book as much as Deadpool. Anyways, it's a pretty good story, despite way too much fooling around with time travel for my taste. This is why the timeline broke, people.

[Patrick · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's so great to see these two together again! It's like reuniting with friends from college and picking up right where you left off. Except instead of friends, they're people you just admired lovingly from a distance, basking in their glory as if it were your own, when really you're just a lonely outsider. So in other words, exactly like the friendships I had in college.

This was part of Marvel's Infinite Comics line, which are stories made primarily for digital platforms. Which I thought was pretty neat, because some days I'm like an elderly person who's been blasted forward in time and now finds the technology of the day so fascinating. All you smartypants comic buffs probably already knew about these made-for-digital stories, but I thought it was worth mentioning in case there's another woefully out-of-touch reader like myself out there.

Speaking of old men traveling through time, Cable is decidedly less powerful in this story. I suppose it is for the best, though. Otherwise you'd have a telekinetic/telepathic Cable wrapping things up before they get out of hand, and that's not such a great story. Deadpool is Deadpool. I thought I was a little sick of the guy after burning through some classic series right before seeing the movie, but apparently I just needed a break. I'm sorry I doubted you, DP.

Fabian Nicieza does a such great job with these guys. If they keep coming back, so will I.

[Dan · Rating 3 out of 5]

First half was awesome but then the "Groundhog Day" story was not so good. Was good to see this team again..?.would definitely read more of this.
https://youtu.be/LdggXkVl8gA

[Nichola · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this. This being my first Deadpool read, and enjoyed every bit of this Action packed tale.

I can't express how much I love reading Deadpool. His sometimes awkwardness plus his bantering commentary with Cable is great.

As Deadpool travels through time on a task, he comes along many obstacles and faces them with sarcasm and grace like he does. When Deadpool and Cable aren't fighting thier way out of their current situation, their conversations are engrossing.

This was a fast paced, super fun read.

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 4 out of 5]

A wonderful bit of timey-wimeyness, as Nicieza Groundhog Days us, then takes us through Cable's history, letting Deadpool muck with cause and effect the whole way. On the other hand, this is also a largely forgettable comic. Put those together, and perhaps that's the best you can expect from these digital-first comics: fun, but forgettable.

My only real qualm with this volume is the ending. It feels like Nicieza had a mandate to undo a lot of the recent changes to Cable ... and so he does. Well, at least he respected their continuity, I suppose.

[Alex E · Rating 3 out of 5]

When presenting digital comics, sometimes the presentation itself becomes a bit of a novelty....which is perfectly suited for Deadpool.

The story revolves around Cable and a bunch time jumping, assassination gone wrong antics. It really allowed Deadpool to shine with the "pop up" animations of digital comics. It serves his style really well, and to be honest, it was pretty funny too.

The problem I had with the story is that by the end of it, it felt like it didn't matter at all. There's even a joke along the lines of "this will change everything... until someone changes it back", which is more true than not.

This is a fun read, with alot working for it. If you're a fan of Deadpool, check it out, you wont be disappointed.

[Sahar · Rating 4 out of 5]

I absolutely loved it !!! It was great and hilarious and as crazy as you would expect from a Deadpool comic.

[Dan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Now this was pretty awesome. Deadpool and Cable are back together again, only this time Deadpool gets top billing.

This has everything you want from the pair back together. There's lots of Deadpool banter, lots of murder (most of it accidental) and lots of crazy time travel stuff. The plot is pretty complicated thanks to the time travel stuff but it begins with Cable getting a vision of Deadpool killing a guy which leads to a terrible future. This inevitably leads to some tension between the two.

For Deadpool fans this is everything you expect from him. He really is the lead character here and it takes place within the current continuity with Agents Preston and Adsit appearing and we see more of Shiklah than we've seen in the main comic for a while now. As ever, there's loads of cultural references and great gags and lots of fourth wall breaking moments.

Cable is not quite his usual self at the start of this volume and is pretty useless for much of it. Nicieza manages to put in some fantastic character stuff though, something which can be hard to do in a Deadpool comic, and re-writes a key moment in Cable and Deadpool continuity.

Whilst I've read digital infinite comics before, this is the first time I've seen one converted to traditional comic book style. It actually works really well and is still more dynamic than most comics. There's lots of panels which almost feel like they are moving which is great.

All in all, a lot of fun and really feels like a continuation of the classic 90s Cable and Deadpool series. I loved it.

[Xiomy's Book Tales · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well this served as a funny read and something to distract myself! Was a bit lost with all the time traveling words. But loved Deadpool he filled my day with laughter. Maybe the other books are better so will be giving them a shot.

[Adan · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was pretty nonsensical, but still kind of fun. Basically a long way to go just return Cable to an early 90s version of himself (but with no shoulder pads, less pouches, and smaller guns).

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

Let's review...

CABLE: Are you insane?
DEADPOOL: Duh.

[Drew Perron · Rating 5 out of 5]

In the early '90s, Cable had been one of Marvel's superstar characters, launched by superstar artist Rob Liefeld. Deadpool, one of his early foes, blossomed into a reasonably popular B-list antihero who held down his own book for sixty-nine issues (nice). But by 2004, both of their stars had faded, their books cancelled, relaunched, then re-cancelled. Marvel's last-ditch attempt was to smoosh them together into "Cable & Deadpool", a single book with two protagonists; cross their fingers; and be ready to re-re-cancel it after the first six months.

Naturally, it was an enormous hit. The odd couple's electric chemistry under the pen of Fabian Nicieza, co-creator of both characters, brought out what was best in each. It worked so well, in fact, that when the book was eventually cancelled, it was because both characters were getting new solo series, with Deadpool in particular rapidly becoming one of the most popular characters in the Marvel Universe. (And we all know where that lead!)

Deadpool and Cable: Split Second brings the characters back together under the same creative team - Nicieza teaming up with Reilly Brown, artist and occasional writer on C&D - to see if they can spark that electric chemistry once again. And spoilers - they do!

Nicieza's specialty is in excessively convoluted science fiction plots (why just have a time anomaly ("just") when you can have a temporal cancer that's simultaneously a dangerous splitting of one person's timeline into alternate histories and futures and a PTSD-esque mental trauma?) that nevertheless key into strong emotional tensions and catharses. This book is about the character's history together, and the changes in their lives - positive and negative - that have taken place since C&D ended. It's about spending your life making up for your mistakes, and moving forward so you don't have to; about the defense mechanisms we build up, and the need to let ourselves be vulnerable; and about trusting in your own better impulses, and letting go of your worse ones.

Which isn't to say that it pulls all this off flawlessly. This was a three-issue miniseries - published digitally first as six half-size issues - and I really wish it'd gotten an issue or two more, because there are a few points where the explanation of the convoluted science fiction plot doesn't quite get to the page. (I'm still not sure why... some version? of Cable shows up and stabs Split Second in issue #3.)

But honestly, this is a minor complaint. The banter is sparkling and very in-character, the art is detailed and expressive, and there's just a bunch of fun stuff going on on nearly every page. (Though, as in most Deadpool comics, there's a fair number of bloody deaths.) Overall: Fun and sweet.

[Rocky Sunico · Rating 4 out of 5]

Given how Deadpool already has a number of Infinite Comics, I was pretty sure the format for this one would be better than some of my recent explorations, and this certainly didn't disappoint. There were a lot of clever, seemingly extended horizontal panels that one would pan through in order to follow the story that made great use of the format.

As with the others, the story for this adventure wasn't the most complex, but it was still a clever one. We have Deadpool dealing with a guy who has potentially developed a means of time travel. But then he becomes obsessed with using the device to undo a death that was caused by Deadpool's efforts to secure the time travel technology. And of course, when there's time travel, it's a great excuse to bring in Cable.

The camaraderie between the two is well-established enough and it plays well within the story. Plus Deadpool eventually needing to travel through Cable's timeline was a great excuse for some nostaligia as we jumped across a lot of very 90s era art.

Fun romp for sure.

[Andy Hickman · Rating 3 out of 5]

DEADPOOL & CABLE. SPLIT SECOND
Nutty, just plain nutty!

#1- "Why, what a conveniently placed gambrel and pulley hoist.. all I'm missing is Leia. And a lightsaber, too."
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#2- "Hey! A granola bar? Want half, kid?" .... "The k-kid is d-d-dead.. there were peanuts in the granola bar.. he was allergic!"
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"In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Joel Osteen!"
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#3- "Smoother than Donald Trump's comb over."
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"See, now I know you're a figment of my imagination." (to the Time Auditor). "I see him, too." (says some other guy)

[Alyce Hunt · Rating 3 out of 5]

I haven't read anything featuring Cable before, so it was intriguing to learn a little bit about his character. However, the focus of this graphic novel is quite clearly on Deadpool, who narrates the majority of pages. Definitely feels like an introduction, and I'm interesting in carrying on with this team-up to see where it goes.

[Adrian J. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like that in the same issue, Fabian Nicieza can make a joke about poor handling of his writing and characters he created, but then also fix what would otherwise have been a glaring error, as Marvel was inexplicably and radically changing Cable at the time. The man's a legend, and this LS was glorious.

[C · Rating 3 out of 5]

Continuing the great x-read of 2017/18...

Alright, so there's nothing brilliant or earth-shattering here. But it is a darned entertaining little afternoon-killer of a story. Time travel, jokes about time travel and pouches... It is funny and pokes fun at itself in the right ways.

I just wish that it had more Cable. He's more of a prop for Deadpool than anything else.

[Ronald · Rating 3 out of 5]

That was a fun read. Nothing special as Deadpool comics go. But fun none the less. From the title I was hoping for a little more Cable in the mix, but as Deadpool quips he is more popular than Cable. So time travel stories, what are you going to do, way over complicated.

[Kelsey Rae · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's not perfect but who doesn't love the friendship between Cable and Deadpool. The chemistry between them is the best part but, like almost all time travel stories, the plot gets a little complicated and muddled. Still a good little read.

[Nicholas Carabillò · Rating 4 out of 5]

in this comic there is cable and deadpool working toghether a future deadpool which then future deadpool gave him a suit then present deadpool fought cable with captain americas' shield.

[Scott · Rating 4 out of 5]

Now I want a series that revolves around young Cable wielding Captain America's shield in a dystopic future.

[SzaraReadsComics · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was short and fun, exactly what I expected from a mini-series about these two.

[Riley Barnitz · Rating 5 out of 5]

I need them back together permanently! Marvel please!

[Jane Vellichor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Even better than I hoped! Love the 'Back to the Future' reference art!!!

[Matt Riddell]

Very little of Cable to be honest. He was like a maguffin for half the comic.

[Tyler Allen · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5/5. My first Deadpool graphic novel. Was funny as expected. Bit confusing overall story but enjoyable enough.