Comics Official CABLE and DEADPOOL Discussion Thread

[CyberFaust]

I think we'll be seeing that Bob miniseries preety soon...
But seriously now, i hated the Cap's wee one, i hated Bucky. Who gives a teenage kid a machinegun and says "GO get em'!"

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Captain Freaking America, that's who lol.

 

[Sugarculted]

Anyone added Bob on their myspace? Glad to see he has a few friends there

Are there not any plans to have DP in another new series? As much as I like Cable, I need my dosage of DP too.

 

[CyberFaust]

Well ever sinde Cable kicked it, it's been "The adventures of Deadpool!"
Not that i'm complaining, heavens no.

 

[Specter313]

CABLE & DEADPOOL #49
Written by FABIAN NICIEZA
Penciled by REILLY BROWN
Cover by SKOTT YOUNG
Deadpool and his ragtag group of cronies travel to the Savage Land in search of a device that will help rebuild the nation of Rumekistan in Cable’s honor. But things go amiss when they discover that the device is already spoken for…and not even the swarthy KA-ZAR or his sabretooth sidekick ZABU have been able to intervene! Ferocious action and raucous hijinks ensue!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Meh

 

[CyberFaust]

hijinks....

 

[Valechan]

I just want to say, I love this series, I love Bob and I want his series

 

[CyberFaust]

me too!

 

[SuGarRush]

Me, I'm not such a Bob fan, I want me some more DP and Weasel interaction.
They're best buds, Bob's just a tag-a-long.

I'm majorly bummed that the book is getting canceled. I'm also excited cause hopefully that means 'Pool gets his own book again!!!!!!!!!!

And I'll have more to collect........
a fan boys job is never done.

Oh and since Fabian isn't writing the last two issues, who is?
Someone please say Kelly is coming back?

 

[CyberFaust]

WHat, CANCELED?
I know nothing about this!
Explain!

 

[SuGarRush]

The book is going to issue 50 and then *SMACK* it gets the axe. Cable is making a come back and getting his own book or something so they are cancelling C&DP.
Fabian says that the last issue he's writing is issue 48.
That means there are two issues a guest writer will be picking up to end the whole series.
Hence me begging for the return of Kelly.

 

[Specter313]

Cable & Deadpool #46 will arrive in stores on Oct. 24 from Marvel Comics. The issue is written by Fabian Nicieza, with art by Reilly Brown and a cover by Skottie Young.

Here's how Marvel describes the issue:

"Since Deadpool is twice as much trouble as anyone in the Marvel Universe, the only logical people who could possibly rescue him and Bob, Agent of Hydra, from their temporal tantrum are... the Fantastic Eight?"

Cable & Deadpool #46 will be 32 pages and will cost $2.99

 

[Captain Clown]

Heh "I can't control the exclamation points!"

 

[Specter313]

DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI’S ‘CABLE’ VISION
The writer scripting Marvel’s time-traveling cyborg shares his gun-toting perspective coming into the series
By Brian Warmoth

Posted October 25, 2007 10:40 AM​

The X-universe’s most famous half-mechanical mutant and man out of time gets a new monthly title in February, and the writing duties belong to edgy crime novelist Duane Swierczynski. Marvel tapped the scribe of such pulpy bullet-rattled books as The Wheelman and this fall’s The Blonde to bring Cable out of the seismic X-event “Messiah Complex,” and Swierczynski is walking in loaded with ideas.

The series kicks off with a lingering mystery about where in time Cable has landed, but Swierczynski dropped some details about his fresh approach to the cyborg and filled us in on his personal history as a writer, comic book reader and even an Ed Brubaker Internet stalker, as it turns out—but don’t worry, Brubaker apparently didn’t mind.

WIZARD: You’re the latest writer with a background in crime fiction to be cutting his teeth on some comics, coming off of Moon Knight Annual and now moving into Cable. To what extent do you see this building off your past work, and what about writing Cable is going to be totally new for you?

SWIERCZYNSKI: I love writing about characters going through the worst days of their lives—people who are totally screwed from page one. It’s the essence of every great film noir and 25-cent hardboiled paperback.

Sometimes, it’s even better when your characters are real hard men—cops, soldiers, assassins. The toughest nuts are the most fun to crack. And Cable is one tough nut.

The new thing to me is the collaboration. As a novelist, I’ll just run a concept past my editor, get the green light, go wandering in the wilderness for three to six months, and come back with a stack of pages in my hands.

But with Cable, it’s a true collaboration. I’m one part of a team that includes Axel Alonso, the boys in the X-office—Nick Lowe, Will Panzo, Aubrey Sitterson—and of course, the amazing Ariel Olivetti. And you know, it’s really nice not to be wandering the wilderness alone. In a novel, I might try something weird, but I won’t find out it doesn’t work until months later, when my editor calls and says, “Um, what were you smoking, Swierczy?”

Now, I can turn in a script and hear, almost immediately, “Um, what were you smoking, Swierczy?”

Where do you live, and where do you work?

SWIERCZYNSKI: I live in Philadelphia, where I was born and raised. I went to high school not too far from the pet shop where Adrian worked in “Rocky.” And the neighborhood where I grew even had its own serial killer—the Frankford Slasher!

My day job is editor-in-chief of the Philadelphia City Paper, our town’s top alt-newsweekly. It’s a lot of fun. And let me tell you, it’s a treasury for novel and comic ideas. There’s a piece of my Moon Knight one-shot, Date Night, that’s ripped right from the local headlines.

How long have you been writing?

SWIERCZYNSKI: My first novel was published in 2005, but I’ve been writing stories for over—good God, 20 years now. It started in high school. Whenever I was bored in math or science class, I’d write a horror story, usually involving the grisly deaths of my closest friends (e.g., “The Murder of Bob Wilkowski, Part 5”). Thank God this was the late 1980s. If I were in high school now, I’d probably be spending most of my days in a nice puffy room, chewing little white pieces of candy that make my head all nice and fuzzy.

Leading up to this book, what has Marvel given you to work with, and what is your take on the character’s history and style as a hero?

SWIERCZYNSKI: When Axel Alonso and I first started talking about this series, he first gave me the quick-and-dirty details about “Messiah Complex,” then presented his central idea for Cable. I nearly went through the frickin’ ceiling. I wish I could tell you exactly why, but I can’t—not without ruining the crossover. But man, it’s a dream concept for me. Both personally and professionally.

My take on Cable? He’s the archetypical stoic hero—tough, resourceful, hardboiled as hell. He’s a soldier, equipped for anything.
Except, perhaps, the situation we’ve thrown him in.

From the beginning, Cable is strapped down with an enormous handicap, and he has to scramble like hell to keep his head above water. Muscle and ammunition is not the only thing that can save your life; sometimes, it comes down to reason and faith.
As for Cable’s history—well, it’s no secret he’s got one of the most convoluted backstories in the Marvel U. He’s a product of the strangest blended marriage, like, ever. He’s been a hardcore mercenary, and he’s been reduced to using diapers and a binky. And he’s got a virus that turned his arm into organic metal. No amount of Robitussin’s going to fix that.

But seriously—what Axel and I talked about from the beginning is digging down to the core of his character and see what makes him tick. What motivates him. That doesn’t mean we’re ignoring his backstory; far from it. But I think this series is a chance for new readers to jump on, while old-school Cable-heads will get to see their gray-haired boy in a new way.

To what extent is your story going to be affected by or related to “Messiah Complex”?

SWIERCZYNSKI: The events of “Messiah Complex” are absolutely central to this new Cable series. He’s back—but is it in the past, the present, or the future?

That said, I think we have quite a few surprises in store—hopefully, a couple of screeching bombshells in the very first issue.

How about Chris Yost and Craig Kyle over on X-Force? Are you talking to them at all for any reason?

SWIERCZYNSKI: They’ll be working in a different corner of the X-Men universe…but as time goes on, anything can happen.

What sorts of Cable stories have you been looking at, if any, deciding how to shape the book?

SWIERCZYNSKI: I feel like I’m tap-dancing around here, because I really can’t talk too much about the kinds of stories without giving away the game.

But Axel and I talked a lot about the kinds of stories we want to tell, the specific notes we want to hit. I’m approaching Cable like a novel, and I’ve been approaching it in a similar way. You start with a situation and characters, and from that flows the plot. We do have an idea of where the story will end up, but so much of the fun will be forging our way there.

And man, what a long, strange trip Cable’s going to have. The new series will be part spaghetti Western, part science fiction thriller, part samurai epic—come to think of it, precisely the kind of crazy stuff I was watching on TV in the 1970s when I wasn’t reading comic books.

Are other noir style and crime writers like Charlie Huston, Greg Rucka or others who have crossed into comics guys you’ve had contact with or read?

SWIERCZYNSKI: You just named two of my absolute favorites; both are at the top of their games. Many of my other favorite crime writers happen to be working in comics these days—Denise Mina, Joe Lansdale, Max Allan Collins, David Morrell, Ian Rankin and Jason Starr. But I’m just as jazzed when my favorite comics guys cross over into novel territory—like Warren Ellis did with Crooked Little Vein and Mike Carey with Devil May Care.

And I’m absolutely jonesin’ for a full-on Ed Brubaker prose crime novel. I want to invent a time machine just to send Brubaker back to the 1950s armed only with a manual typewriter and the phone number of an editor at Gold Medal Books. Then I’d be able to sit back and watch him take over the pulp paperback world. Full disclosure: Brubaker’s the one who introduced me to Axel and Warren Simons at Marvel. But I’ve been a fan of his long since before we got in touch.
How did you end up meeting Ed Brubaker?

SWIERCZYNSKI: I don’t know how to word this without it sounding creepy, but...um, we met online?

Actually I was really loving the first arc of Criminal, so I sent Brubaker an e-mail saying so. As it turns out, he’d just picked up my crime novel, The Wheelman, the week before, so it wasn’t like I was some random psycho from Philly. We started talking hardboiled crime and stuff, and at one point he asked, “Would you ever want to write for comics?” It was very, very hard to contain my fanboy glee.

What’s your personal background with comics prior coming to write at Marvel?

SWIERCZYNSKI: I read a ton of comics as a kid. I know this sounds like ass-kissing, but I was a Marvel kid—reading Spidey, Iron Man, Moon Knight, Daredevil, Werewolf by Night, Man-Thing in the late ’70s, early ’80s. Okay, I did cheat on Marvel a bit with Batman and Swamp Thing.

Somewhere in the mid-’80s I drifted over into Stephen King novels, which kicked off years of reading horror, then hardboiled crime. I dipped back in from time to time, checking out stuff like Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen, Sandman, Clive Barker’s Hellraiser anthologies, EC Comics reprints, along with the random issues of The Punisher.

But I really got back into comics in a big way the summer of 2000, when I was working as a writer at Men’s Health magazine. On a lunch break one day—when I wasn’t doing ab crunches—I wandered into a local comic shop and promptly fell back in love.

And I’ll admit it—the “X-Men” movie kicked me into the X-books hard. I especially dug Grant Morrison’s New X-Men run, as well as Peter Milligan and Mike Allred’s X-Force reboot (that became X-Statix) somewhere around 2001. (Doop was the sh--.) So to be working on an X-book, six years later, is absolutely wild.
http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazine/wizard/006204356.cfm

 

[Saved]

So what the **** happens to Deadpool!? Oh dammit I love this series! Why give it the boot!

 

[SouLeSS]

I was wondering wtf they were gonna do with this book when I read it today. Cable is off it, and it's basically just Deadpool with a few side-cast members. Cable is gonna be doing his X-Men thing, so all that was left to do with it was Axe it, or turn it into a Deadpool solo; And while I want neither one, out of the two I prefer they end it at 50 and call it a nice 4 years.

 

[Saved]

But why? The whole Cable and Deadpool together is why I loved it so much! They have to ruin it cause Cable wants to play Savior again? Not cool.

 

[Sugarculted]

But why? The whole Cable and Deadpool together is why I loved it so much! They have to ruin it cause Cable wants to play Savior again? Not cool.

Tell me about it. I'm not impressed with the way they're handling the last few issues.
Fabian hands it to another writer for the last two issues, and we just have Deadpool sprawling the MU universe with Bob and Weas. As much fun as that is, is that really a way of ending this neat lil' run we had?

Tell you what, the highlight of this series? Zircher's run on the book. Sweet, sweet artwork.

 

[LadyVader]

I have to agree. This book hit a peak for me somewhere around issue 35, but since then it has been going downhill. I love Deadpool in anything but I gotta be honest.

 

[SouLeSS]

That's why I'd rather them end it at 50 than try to keep it going, cause the last few issues, while good, were not "Cable and Deadpool" like the first 40 or so were. It was pretty much just Deadpool running amuck through time.

 

[squeekness]

Yeah, but for me it's still entertaining. And since I was more into this book for Deadpool than for Cable, it's kinda like wade having his own book anyhow. I'll be sure to pick up Deadpool's new series.

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

Too bad half of the book's gone, but it's still funny.

And yeah, I'm one of those who thought the PeneTRAItor bit was funny.

 

[Saved]

If he gets one. Here's hoping.

Just got separation Anxiety. Lookin awsome.

 

[squeekness]

Too bad half of the book's gone, but it's still funny.

And yeah, I'm one of those who thought the PeneTRAItor bit was funny.

That was awesome. I don't always like Wolverine when he guests in other folk's books, but even he was funny in that arc.