Cable #22 – Review

By: Duane Swierczynski (writer), Gabriel Guzman (artist), Thomas Mason (colors), Axel Alonso (editor)

The Story: Homecoming, Part 2: This issue is part of the build-up to the X-Men: Second Coming event. Seventeen-year-old Hope has decided it is time to join to X-Men in the present. Cable’s time gizmo isn’t very precise. It keeps landing on the past or the future, but gets closer and closer (the opposite of what the time traveler did in Wells’ Time Machine). The problem is Bishop keeps getting dragged along with them.

What’s Good: Swierczynski is writing a pursuit plot, which can be a lot of fun. The secret to the chase plot is never letting the quarry get too far from the hunter, and Swierczynski certainly did that here. Even when they manage to make some major gain, Hope and Cable can’t get any real distance between themselves and Bishop. Also, some of the traps and attacks that Cable and Hope devised were pretty fun to watch. Ever thought you’d see Cable shooting muskets? It is cool, and the camera angle that Guzman chose was a good one.