{"id":5748,"date":"2020-10-15T20:06:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T19:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5748"},"modified":"2020-10-15T20:07:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T19:07:28","slug":"cable-5-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5748","title":{"rendered":"Cable #5 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CABLE vol 4 #5 <\/strong>
“X of Swords, Chapter 8” <\/strong>
by Gerry Duggan & Phil Noto<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1:<\/strong> Cable, Cyclops and Jean Grey on the SWORD base with scary aliens in the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This post is going to be short – Cable <\/em>#5 is a straightforward horror story introducing a new race of aliens and with little continuity baggage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 2.<\/strong> Cable, Cyclops and Jean wonder where everyone is.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’re picking up from a scene in X of Swords: Creation<\/em> – seven chapters ago<\/em> – with no apparent interruption in time. I think<\/em> we’re probably meant to take it that Scott, Jean and Cable’s mission over the closing pages of Creation <\/em>took quite some time, and that they were quite badly out of synch with the rest of the storyline by the end of that issue, but it does read quite strangely, since there was no sign of that at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Anyway, in Creation<\/em>, Cable had a vision of Saturnyne showing him something he needed to find in order to win the tournament. Cyclops recognised it, and took Jean and Cable to SWORD’s orbiting Peak base. He identified the item in Cable’s memory as the igniter that reopens the “trans-space bridge” that powers the Peak. In other words, by turning this thing on, Cable has reactivated some sort of space portal. We were also told that something awful seemed to have happened on the Peak three weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 2.<\/strong> Recap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 3.<\/strong> Jean goes one way, the boys go the other.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 4.<\/strong> Data page on Blightspoke. Apparently, this realm is a dumping ground for failed realities and things that would endanger their home worlds. It’s potentially full of valuable things but they’re far too hard to get to – though the profiteers of the Crooked Market realm would be quite keen to try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blightspoke’s sheriff Gia Whitechapel is a new character and presumably we’ll be seeing her in due course. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 5-6.<\/strong> Magik calls to chase Cable to come home.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a follow-up call to the one that we saw in the previous chapter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 7-13.<\/strong> Jean encounters a surviving SWORD agent who tells her that something horrible has happened, and then commits suicide.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaks for itself, really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 14-21.<\/strong> The Vescora attack<\/em> until Cable shuts down the bridge again.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Was she trying to warn us?”<\/strong> Cable and Cyclops were sent here by a message from Saturnyne in X of Swords: Creation<\/em>, which led them to the power source that Cable activated. It might<\/em> be pure coincidence that the alien invaders are here, but it seems much more likely that Saturnyne wanted Cable to meet them for some reason. Cyclops and Cable wonder if she was just trying to get them killed… but that would be odd, because Cable is one of the swordsman champions that Saturnyne herself selected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The portal<\/strong> seems to be formed of the bodies of individual Vescora. It’s very Minecraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vescora<\/strong> themselves appear to be some sort of human-size insectoid virus. Jean talks about them as if they don’t have much going on intellectually beyond that. But they do talk about “learning” and “mining the truth of the past”, whatever they mean by that. They seem to come from another dimension which views ours as “decaying”, and they seem to see themselves as some sort of cleansing force. Basically, there’s a mismatch here between the way Jean describes them and what they actually say about themselves – though they’re a danger either way. Perhaps they’re something to do with the world where the older Cable was banished, as seen in previous issues?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 22.<\/strong> Data page: basically the Peak’s black box recorder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 23.<\/strong> Cable returns to Krakoa to take his space at the Hub.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

His exchange with Cypher references the previous chapter (New Mutants <\/em>#13), which is all about Cypher being a non-combatant unsuited for the tournament. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 24.<\/strong> Data page about the Light of Galador. It’s mostly just recapping what we’ve already been told about the sword in the course of this series. We’ve covered the destruction of Galador before, and the references to its apparent survival in the recent Yondu<\/em> mini – this page squares them by explaining that Gladorian civilization<\/em> survived to some extent thanks to the people who were away when the planet was destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plandanium<\/strong> was the metal used to create the Spaceknights’ armour in Rom<\/em>. It’s said to have been used to make the Light of Galador along with an “unknown metal” from group 6 on the periodic table. That would be chromium, molybdenum, tungsten or seaborgium, none of which sound like obvious story fodder, but there you go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 25-26.<\/strong> Cyclops, Jean and Magik discuss plans.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the look of it, Cyclops is planning to cheat and find a way for everyone else to get involved in the fight. They don’t share this with any of the other champions (apparently including the telepathic Cable).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 27.<\/strong> Trailers. The Krakoan reads NEXT: AVALON.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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