Best Cable stories?

[Kristoffer]

I really love this character and started to read Age of Apocalypse thinking he would be part of it, but seems like that isn't the case. Instead it features the "X Man" version of him instead.

So what are the best Cable stories where you see him use his powers?

 

[runawayboulder]

The last 15 or so issues of The New Mutants, first vol of X-Force and his own solo series during the 90's which actually ran for a long time. He also had a 6 issue mini series before the solo series.

 

[KevanG]

I liked him in Cable and Deadpool. He had a great dynamic with Wade and they had a very strange friendship. It brought out parts of his character that a good amount of writers ignore when he's in a team book. That he was brought up to basically be the messiah for the world against Apocalypse and after he won that, he had nothing left. They bring Cyclops into the mix for a father/son talk which is always nice to see. We also get to see how someone like Deadpool gets to befriend a jerk like Cable. It's really a great series and even though Cable leaves just before the last few issues of the series, it is a great book for both characters that really shows how they develop over time.

Of course most of it gets ignored by everyone else once the series ends but it's still nice to see.

 

[slicer4444]

I liked him in Cable and Deadpool. He had a great dynamic with Wade and they had a very strange friendship. It brought out parts of his character that a good amount of writers ignore when he's in a team book. That he was brought up to basically be the messiah for the world against Apocalypse and after he won that, he had nothing left. They bring Cyclops into the mix for a father/son talk which is always nice to see. We also get to see how someone like Deadpool gets to befriend a jerk like Cable. It's really a great series and even though Cable leaves just before the last few issues of the series, it is a great book for both characters that really shows how they develop over time.

Seconded, loved Cable and Deadpool.

 

[Kristoffer]

Thanks for the suggestions. t:

 

[Sexy Magician]

A story I really liked is Messiah Complex, its an X-Men tale and features a ton of everyones favourite mutants, although he isn't necessarily the main star, Cable does play a pivotal role in this, well worth a read in my opinion.

 

[bobaban]

Yeah the Messiah arc is really good. Also the new X-force has Cable as a great leader.

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

His run during Messiah arc was great

 

[Sexy Magician]

His run during Messiah arc was great

It really was, I didn't even see him coming in that story at all.

 

[Havok83]

do yourself a favor and read Weinberg's classic run

 

[SlamAdams]

I was very partial to the Cable & Deadpool series

 

[JewishHobbit]

I'd recommend his origin and earlier stories. In chronological order, trimming the fat, but keeping the essential parts:

X-Factor (vol. 1) 65-68
Cable Minus 1 (if you want, though this actually came out way later. It's not completely necessary)
New Mutants 87-94, 98-100 (though if you want it trimmed even more, you could go with 99-100 and be fine... just know that he took on the New Mutants as his team)
X-Force 1
Cable 1-2 (2-issue mini)
X-Cutioner's Song crossover
X-Force 25 (Fatal Attractions)
Excalibur 70 (Fatal Attractions)
Cable 6-7
Uncanny X-Men 308
X-Men 30 (Wedding of Cyclops & Jean Grey)
Excalibur 75 (not seemingly connected, but it is)
The Adventures of Cyclops & Phoenix 1-4
X-Men 35
Wolverine 85 (Phalanx Covenant)
Cable 16 (Phalanx Covenant)

This is what I consider his essential origin story. If you want to read more of this era that this list kinda hops around, you could the X-Tinction Agenda crossover (which New Mutants 95-97 are a part of), X-Force 1-24 (he's not in all of it, particularly post-X-Cutioner's Song... also there was a crossover with Spider-Man 16), The Kings of Pain Annuals crossover that took place between New Mutants 100 and X-Force 1, and every issue of Cable from 1 (which takes place after X-Cutioner's Song) through issue 15 and on past that.


Now, beyond that, I'd also recommend various runs of his ongoing title later. Particularly from issue 48 on. It was decent before that, but I LOVED it from 48 on through around issue 99 I think.