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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 #<\/strong>7
“Gritty Days in the City of Brotherly Love”<\/strong>
by Gerry Duggan & Phil Noto<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1.<\/strong> Cable holding a baby. Unusually for this series, Cable is holding his more traditional Big Gun rather than his shiny new Big Sword. It’s somewhat reminiscent of the 2008 Cable <\/em>series, in which Cable was on the run through time with baby Hope in tow – though it doesn’t seem to be a homage to any specific cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 2.<\/strong> Epigraph. The “past that comes back to haunt” Cable is presumably the villain who gets identified at the end of the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 3.<\/strong> Gorgon is remembered.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gorgon<\/strong> died in “X of Swords” (specifically, in the previous issue). Grasscutter and Godkiller were the swords he was using in the tournament, arranged in an X design. They’re “wait[ing]” for Gorgon because he’s presumably going to be resurrected. But because he died in Otherworld, he can’t be resurrected as normal; instead, he’ll return as some sort of alternative incarnation of himself. Hence, everyone else is treating him as dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

If this is anything other than a spontaneous gathering, it’s a pretty poor turnout – and a slightly random selection regardless. The characters in attendance (from left to right) are Cypher, Bei, Magik, Callisto, one of the Stepford Cuckoos (probably Phoebe, given who she’s with), Kid Omega and Mondo. Kid Omega’s presence on the island raises questions, but we’ll cover that in the X-Force<\/em> annotations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Cable wants to get back to the plot that was in progress before the crossover interrupted them. Of course, Cable’s concern for lost mutant babies ties in with his own back story of being spirited away to an alternate future for his own safety when he was an infant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 4.<\/strong> Recap and credits. The small print text has changed – it now reads “The Young, The Old – Past, Future”. Before “X of Swords”, it read “Guns & Swords – Swords Don’t Need Reloading.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gritty is the mascot of the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team<\/a>, but that’s probably not the intended reference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 5.<\/strong> Cable meets up with Rachel Summers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rachel Summers.<\/strong> Her codename “Prestige” isn’t used in this issue (mercifully). For anyone who’s new to this: Rachel is the daughter of Scott and Jean\/Phoenix from an alternate future timeline, who travelled back in time to the present. She and Cable are often described as siblings, but strictly speaking both are only children – and Cable’s mother isn’t Jean, but her clone Madelyne Pryor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rachel was already living in the present when Nate was conceived, and her discovery that Nate was a boy was one of things that finally proved her timeline wasn’t coming to pass. She always treated him as a baby brother when he was an infant; they were both living with the Summers Family in the Krakoan era (at least until Rachel moved out to live with X-Factor). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Otherworld fiasco<\/strong> is “X of Swords.” Cable is very much downplaying it here (and in the previous scene), perhaps because he didn’t make a very good showing in it, and needed Saturnyne to spell out the plot to him in the end. Cable is still carrying the Galadorian sword that he picked up in previous issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 6-8.<\/strong> Cable introduces Rachel to DiStefano and Molina.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cable and Cyclops met these two detectives before in issue #2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I found the house, but I got attacked by some Space Knights.”<\/strong> Again, issue #2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Still getting used to that.”<\/strong> Rabid pro-mutant cultists are specifically a feature of the Krakoan era (though the Morrison-era U-Men were close). Marauders<\/em> has suggested that there was a specific upsurge in this sort of cult linked to the announcement of Krakoa and, perhaps, to Xavier’s telepathic address to the world in House of X<\/em> #1. Most of the Order of X cultists seen in this story appear to be genuine true believers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 9-10.<\/strong> Cable, Rachel and the detectives arrive at the mansion.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“How are we gonna explain this for a warrant?”<\/strong> Um… by explaining that you got the information from a credible informant, i.e. Rachel? It doesn’t seem that<\/em> hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PAGES 11-16.<\/strong> Cable fights the cultists.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A false mutant.”<\/strong> The Monsignor is simply lying to the other cultists, and may just be coming up with an excuse to make them fight Cable. He might also be referring to Cable’s techno-organic parts and trying to suggest that Cable is really a cyborg, rather than a mutant. Or, given his links to the villain revealed at the end of the issue, he might be buying into said villain’s traditional view of Cable (of which more below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Otherworld… That’s where I learned, if a woman runs at you waving something sharp, don’t hesitate.”<\/strong> Cable’s referring to his duel with Bei (which he lost) in the previous issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 17.<\/strong> Cable reads the Monsignor’s mind.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Monsignor answers to Stryfe<\/strong>, Cable’s arch-enemy from the 1990s. Like Cable, Stryfe has a rather convoluted back story, but the general thrust is that while Cable was growing up in Apocalypse’s dystopian future, Apocalypse had him cloned in the hope of creating a future host body. That clone is Stryfe, but Stryfe grew up thinking that he was the original and Cable was the copy. (Because that was the original plot, and it got swapped later in a retcon.) Stryfe’s agenda is usually a mixture of gratuitous chaos and retribution for what he considers to be his mistreatment by others. He’s not an especially well rounded character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We saw a Stryfe from this<\/em> Cable’s home timeline in the previous volume of X-Force<\/em>, but this one is dressed as a more traditional Stryfe, which might imply that he’s from the timeline of the original Cable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 18.<\/strong> Cable doesn’t explain about Stryfe’s involvement.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Understandably enough, Cable wants to portray this to the cops as a straightforward win over some dangerous cultists, and not complicate matters by having to explain that his own clone is behind it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 19-21.<\/strong> The Summers family home.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continuing the running joke of the Summers family doing very domestic things on the moon. Cable seems to view all of this as a distraction from pursuing his admittedly-important agenda, while the rest of the family are more keen to insist on making time for normalcy now that Krakoa gives them the chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hope Summers. <\/strong>I’m not immediately sure why Rachel suggests that Cable check in with Hope Summers. Cable raised her as a baby in the far future in the 2008 series, but of course that was the previous version of Cable. This one has no particular connection to her, and it’s not obvious what Hope would do to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The team that Jean and I are putting together.”<\/strong> The X-Men, in current issues of X-Men<\/em>. Incidentally, there’s no mention in this issue of Cable’s involvement in the new S.W.O.R.D. – given that we’re picking up on an urgent plotline from before “X of Swords”, this story probably happens before S.W.O.R.D. <\/em>#1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 22.<\/strong> Data page. Sage asks the Beast – a very morally dubious figure over in X-Force<\/em> – whether to let Cable see the files on Stryfe. Sage indicates that these files are classified for two reasons: (1) they involve future events, which people should probably not know about in order to minimise the scope for time paradoxes; and (2) they involve Apocalypse. Apparently the Krakoans have been suppressing records of Apocalypse’s history given his involvement in the government, and presumably the same applies to the likes of Mister Sinister. Not very encouraging for Krakoan democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 23-24.<\/strong> Cable and Domino in the Green Lagoon.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Domino<\/strong> was the original Cable’s lover, at least from time to time. The new Cable has deal with her before, and at least smoothed things over with her, in the previous X-Force<\/em> run, so it’s hardly surprising that she’d be willing to help him out. At the same time, she’s a member of Beast’s X-Force team, and we just saw on the previous page that X-Force are taking an interest in Cable’s inquiry. Does that have anything to do with her involvement?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The customers in the background are mostly randoms. The one on the left in page 23 panel 2 seems to be Gentle, and the guy next to him might<\/em> be Kid Gladiator – though he isn’t a mutant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 25.<\/strong> Trailers. The Krakoan reads NEXT: GET LUCKY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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