Written by Al Ewing
Art by Bob Quinn
Published by Marvel Comics
Talk about a kick the doors down type of opening.
This is how Cable should be written; a grizzled tactician who is always ready for war.
It is a far cry from the young Cable in the more recent X-books.
While each version has its unique appeal, the same Cable who sunsetted The New Mutants and reimagined them as X-Force will always have favor, and that is Cable you will see in Cable: Reloaded written by Al Ewing.
Al, you are on quite a run these days.
The story opens hot, intense, and full of fire, like a meteorite dropping from the heavens onto an unsuspecting planet, literally.
The illustration by Bob Quinn and color artist Java Tartaglia match the gravity of the Cable’s mission. The frames barely contain the scale of the scenery. It’s classic Cable, as if Rob Leifeld reached back and started drawing this title all over again.
Ewing does take a moment to explain the mission, the stakes and what brought Cable into an interstellar playground. It’s a solid intro but the beauty of this tale is all in action. It is indeed relentless.
It isn’t all slash and burn. There are several layers to Cable’s mission. Each task grows in its degree of difficulty, forcing him to change from being a one man wrecking crew to the lead chair of a symphony of destruction.
Cable assembles quite the firecracker team of X-Terminators. It’s pretty sick and almost an X-Force reunion of epic proportions. If they had only brought Domino, Warpath and Shatterstar back into the fold,
Still, the team Cable amasses would be a tough out against any squad. He leads a group with a diverse set of powers and personalities. And, as a leader, he never loses sight of the mission.
As a writer, Ewing also does a fair job at giving each member of Cable’s team at least one frame to reveal their personality, but Cable is the feature. And you get a lot of it.
Hopefully it continues, because this is a highly entertaining start.
