“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
IMO most people complaining about Young Cable prefer the Terminator ripoff so much they have forgotten any nuance he ever had. In may ways Cable had run his course. IMO Spurrier so thoroughly deconstructed him in his X-Force run (a forgotten gem of a book) that there was very little left to say about him.
Comics often have this problem. Characters are created with a specific purpose in mind, but because they are cool they stick around and they have to be expanded into new roles. Eventually they expand as far as their roots allow and then what do you do with them?
Everything has been said about them. Their book should be closed, but the owners of the IP categorically don’t want to close the book. The only choice is evolve into something new or be doomed to lurch on as zombie-IP, never being relevant or interesting outside of a narrow fan-base.
Last edited by JKtheMac; 11-24-2019 at 05:35 AM.
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.