{"id":6402,"date":"2021-02-18T21:17:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T21:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=6402"},"modified":"2021-02-18T21:17:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T21:17:44","slug":"cable-8-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=6402","title":{"rendered":"Cable #8 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"<\/a>CABLE vol 4 #8
\n“My Dinner with Domino”
\nby Gerry Duggan & Phil Noto<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1:<\/strong> Just Cable with Domino’s face in the background – and her black spot framing his head.<\/p>\n

PAGE 2.<\/strong> Straightforward quote from Cable. Of course, Stryfe doesn’t just\u00a0look<\/em> like Cable; genetically, they’re identical, so the differences between them should be down to their different experiences.<\/p>\n

PAGE 3.<\/strong>\u00a0A meteorite changes course.<\/em><\/p>\n

We’ll see it again at the end of the issue. Generally, Duggan writes Domino’s luck powers at a ridiculously high level in this story, more akin to the way Longshot has sometimes been written; traditionally Domino’s powers have been played at a subtler level than that. In voice over, Domino kind of shrugs her shoulders and acknowledges that she can’t really explain how her powers work. Explanations offered over the years have involved things like probability manipulation and subconscious telekinesis, none of which would really account for a bad guy just happening to stand in the right position to get flattened by a meteorite… but whatever. You can only really write Domino this way as a guest star; as a regular character, this sort of thing would break the book rather quickly, or at least wear thin. As a one-off, it’s fine.<\/p>\n

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PAGES 4-7.<\/strong>\u00a0Domino takes Nate to a cafe in Tokyo, where they stumble upon the kidnapper.<\/em><\/p>\n

Domino claims she doesn’t know they’re supposed to be in Tokyo, and that she’s just there because she fancies some gyoza. She might be joking about that, since they are indeed in precisely the location they need to be to advance the plot. At any rate, Domino was presumably drawn here.<\/p>\n

“The reason I took over for the other guy is that he failed to clean up his messes.”<\/strong> The “other guy” is the original version of Cable, who this Cable killed and replaced in\u00a0Extermination<\/em> (though previous issues have suggested this was engineered by Cable Classic, and subplots have shown us that he’s somehow still around, in a post-apocalyptic wasteland). Kid Cable claimed that his older counterpart had allowed the timestream to deteriorate by failing to take action against such things as the Silver Age X-Men making an extended stay in the present, something that was expanded upon in the previous volume of\u00a0X-Force<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“I’ve never eaten at Galador’s.”<\/strong> We never actually see the sign, so it’s not 100% clear whether this is the actual name of the cafe or a joke on Cable’s part. Galador is the homeworld of Rom and the Spaceknights, and the “robots” seen here certainly do look a lot like them.<\/p>\n

“For most of our lives you were too old for me…”<\/strong>\u00a0Despite what she says here, Domino and Cable were in fact a couple of some of their time in\u00a0X-Force<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The kidnapper<\/strong> is, more exactly, a copy of Stryfe’s agent, who was leading an Order of X cell last issue. This issue clarifies that these people are also clones of Nate, apparently at a mid-point in their ages.<\/p>\n

PAGE 8.<\/strong> Recap and credits. The title, “My Dinner with Domino”, presumably references the film “My Dinner with Andre” (1981).<\/p>\n

PAGES 9-10.<\/strong>\u00a0Cable gets past the lock.<\/em><\/p>\n

Presumably, this biometric lock was originally designed for Stryfe, and anyone with the same DNA can get past it. Bit of a pointless security device when your arch-enemy is a clone, so maybe it was conceived as a trap.<\/p>\n

“For someone who says they don’t like clones… well, you sure date enough of them.”<\/strong> The Stepford Cuckoos, throughout this series. Keep that point in mind, though.<\/p>\n

“I thought I killed Stryfe before I traveled back in time.”<\/strong>\u00a0Um. We saw Kid Cable’s version of Stryfe in\u00a0X-Force<\/em> vol 5 #7-10, and Cable didn’t kill him – he wiped his memory and left him in a cell to avoid time paradoxes. It’s not entirely clear whether we’re dealing with that version of Stryfe, or the Stryfe Classic version (who may be a divergent version, or the same person at a later point in his life).<\/p>\n

PAGES 11-15.<\/strong>\u00a0Cable and Domino defeat the clones.<\/em><\/p>\n

Stryfe’s interest in cloning is somewhat new; traditionally, his back story was about resentment that he wasn’t the “real” Cable, so his apparent treatment of clones as disposable is somewhat telling.<\/p>\n

As Cable says, Apocalypse created the first Stryfe clone; however, that was in the far future timeline where he grew up, as seen in\u00a0Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix<\/em>. The Apocalypse who was on Krakoa hadn’t done that yet.<\/p>\n

“Remember to aim for the limbs, or you’re gonna end up in the hole with Sabretooth.”<\/strong> Domino is reminding Nate that killing humans results in the very dubious form of incarceration that we saw in\u00a0House of X<\/em> #6. The clones here apparently don’t matter to mutants either, though. Given the enthusiasm with which the Krakoans churn out clone bodies for resurrection, it’s rather important to them to maintain that the clones don’t count as people until they get their memories restored from back-up. Several titles have begun flagging the implications of this: in\u00a0Hellions<\/em>, Madelyne Pryor’s resurrection was vetoed on the grounds that she was only a clone of Jean Grey, and in\u00a0New Mutants<\/em>, Scout (Laura Kinney’s clone) has picked up on the fact that she may be a second class citizen.<\/p>\n

And if clones don’t count, where does that leave Cable’s girlfriends, who are all clones of Emma Frost? Stryfe’s clearly a character. The Cuckoos are clearly characters. So why aren’t all of these extra Stryfe clones? I don’t think this is an oversight, particularly given the way this theme has emerged in other books – I think the Cuckoos are in this book for a reason.<\/p>\n

PAGES<\/strong>\u00a016-19.<\/strong>\u00a0Cable and Domino chase down the last clone.<\/em><\/p>\n

Simple enough, and cheerfully ridiculous.<\/p>\n

PAGE 20.<\/strong> Data page. Domino reports back to the Beast on the plot, which is fair enough because she’s a member of X-Force and that’s her job.<\/p>\n

“Tempest” is Angel Salvadore (Beak’s partner). It was her codename when she was depowered and a member of the New Warriors, but she’s been using it again over in\u00a0New Mutants<\/em>.<\/p>\n

PAGES 21-24.<\/strong>\u00a0Cable Classic finally enters the citadel.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the citadel that we saw him approaching at the end of issue #2 (!), and apparently we’re picking up his plotline moments after that. It’s set in a different timeframe, so why not?<\/p>\n

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

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