What I Bought 10/25/2017

The first issue of the Atomic Robo mini-series was solicited for this month, did not appear. You'd think they could avoid that with a story that was already finished online, but apparently not. There were two other books for me this week, but I only found one. We'll get to the other next week.

Deadpool #288, by Gerry Duggan (writer), Scott Koblish (artist), Nick Filardi (colorist), Joe Sabino (letterer) - It's a nice cover by David Lopez, but I think a metal arm that belonged to Cable should look bigger on Deadpool. Wade's much shorter and slimmer than Nate.

Deadpool ambushes Justice Peace after his team-up with Thor from Simonson's run, and uses Peace's head to get into TVA HQ. As he slaughters them, Cable tries to convince his guard to let him out. Which he does just in time for Wade to show up. But Cable is able to retake control of the metal arm, make it pummel Wade, then rip it off him. Then he shoots Wade in the head.

I'm going to be really annoyed when Cable doesn't really die at the end of this. They're going to pull some loophole bullshit. So frustrating. At least Cable will have to live with the knowledge of the awful things Wade did with that metal hand. I love that Wade, even having just gotten his ass beat without Cable lifting a finger, made sure to mention that. Hey Cable, can your future self tell you how long until you lose that image from your mind?

Also, I thought it was Cable's scarred eye that does the glowy thing, but Koblish and Filardi are depicting it as being the other one. Maybe they figured it wasn't fair the right eye got both the cool visuals, and gave lefty one instead. Or. . . it's Mirror Universe Cable! Ugh, best not give Marvel any ideas. We already have Cable and Stryfe (Evil Clone Cable) and Nate Grey (aka, Nice Refugee from Alternate Timeline Cable) may be running around somewhere. Marvel needs to be reducing the number of people with Summers or Grey genetics in their line, not expanding it.

The colors still seem excessively dark. It's a dark story, I grant you, but they could still ease off the dimmer switch. With Koblish throwing blood and bullets and body parts all over the place, a little light would make things easier to track. Still, the violence is entertaining. Deadpool throwing heads at people, stabbing a guy in the eye with a handgun when he runs out of bullets. And the whole time trying to make jokes about the lousy situation he's in and the choices he's making. Calling himself the Man with No Morals, or the Man Without Remorse. Neither is true, but he certainly wishes they were. It'd make things easier.

I have a hard time seeing Cable's threat as having much weight. He's going to kill Wade if he doesn't talk? Even if we assume Cable can actually kill him, and that he's willing to go through with it, that's not going to get him anywhere. Deadpool on a good day would welcome death, and Cable should know that. Unless Wade thinks Stryfe would kill Eleanor after Deadpool was gone, just on the principle of it. Or for the hell of it. Which I could see him doing.