Cable: Reloaded #1

The Last Annihilation #4

by Al Ewing, Bob Quinn (Artist)

THE BIG GUN IS BACK! It’s a new era, in a new galaxy, that’s under siege from a deadly new threat...but you can still rely on one man. Cable is locked, loaded and landing on the deadliest planet in X-history – to steal the ultimate weapon...and stop the LAST ANNIHILATION!

Genres: Comics, Marvel

34 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 25, 2021

Reviews

[Myles Likes Tacos and Rice]

WHY IS THIS ONLY A ONE SHOT. This issue is fun and I don't know what the heck a Last Annihilation is.

Highlights

- Rocket not expecting Cable to fanboy over him
- Boom Boom rocking her original X-Force outfit
- Everyone teasing married "Sam"
- the random Arakko team member Khora that ain't got time to waste
- the action and pacing
- Ewing managing to be meta in a slick, subtle way, not the annoying in your face way like every Deadpool comic. Basically all of Cable's talk about not living in the past, when we happened to be reading a 90s style comic!

[Shawn Ingle]

I have no interest in The Last Annihilation event but this was a fun and smart read even without knowing anything else that's going on.

[Etienne]

Another crossover... Marvel sure love those these days... New Cable series, but fourth in the crossover series The Last Annihilation. Well I didn't like it. A bit lost in the crossover like always and even if Cable is a super-heroes I'd love since I was a kid, I find it hard to find comic that really bring out what I like about this character. I won't continue!

[heidi]

Fun. Better than the GotG crossover issues for this Last Annihilation event, in my opinion. I have one complaint though: why are the text boxes and font getting smaller and smaller for the current X-books compared to Marvel comics from decades before? It's annoying having to always enlarge / resize certain panels to read what's happening.

[Ian Sharman]

You can’t read everything, which is why I’m not reading The Last Annihilation event, but I kinda’ wish I was. See, what I have read of it has been consistently excellent. A lot of that is because Al Ewing is a superb writer who’s currently at the top of his game, clearly having a blast and firing on all cylinders, so to speak.

This comic is very silly, very funny, and very much a love letter to the ridiculous excesses of 90s comics, and X-Force in particular.

The art is pretty good, although not quite up to the heights of the rest of the X-line has been recently. But it’s really the writing that you’re here for, and that’s superb.

Plus, we finally find out what Cable keeps in all of those pouches…

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[Stefan Dion Garcia]

Cable is not my favorite character. But with the supporting characters (Boom-boom, Wiz Kid, Lila fucking Cheney) how could this not be a barrel of fun! As good as a Cable title can get for me.

[David]

On the balance I liked this.

I'm probably one of the few who would have preferred to keep Kid Cable and continue to develop him but that's done now it seems.

This volume, whilst inserted into the middle of another generic crossover, got a lot of the old X Force back together which was cool to see and also continued to show Khora who has, somehow, been the only character from another whole world of Mutants to get anything approaching any page time post the Swords event which is crazy...

So yeah, a good fun volume, let's see what they do with Cable

[Roman Colombo]

We need an X-terminators book. Now

[Jason]

3.75

[Emily]

That was fun. I almost want to see what happens with the Last Annihilation but nah....

[Mana]

Ok Cable welcome back. Love how this was written, you get a feel for the original X-Force, Cable as a leader, and snippets of a future. Very well done.

[Pa_tr0_clus]

I’m so out of the loop on Cable stuff… why does he have a digital boyfriend in his arm ?? like a tamagotchi ??