Wow. That's pretty dope. Looks kind of Disney-fied.
“Not as good as I once was… but I’m as good, once, as I ever was.”
Has there ever been an explanation as to why Scott, Jean, and the rest of X-Factor went from calling him Chris to Nathan? I know Claremont preferred Nathan and used that but it always bugged me that he was always baby Christopher in Simonson's run but that name never gets referenced after that. Scott and Jean start to only refer to him as Nathan as well in the 90s. Did they forgot all those years they called him Chris?
Story wise they called him Nathan cause Sinister wanted it and left a hypnotic suggestion since his real name is Nathaniel Essex. And because his full name was Nathan Christopher Summers
X-Men Forever
Story-wise, there was little reason to meddle with the name change. Especially since Claremont was the one who had Scott reveal he disliked the name from the beginning.
And that was a Claremont reveal rather than a Simonson one to go with his backstory for Sinister that he was really the little boy Nathan who was Scott's only friend at the orphanage. Scott even says in Inferno that he didn't like the name because it was the name of his "bully," which makes it even more odd how he reverts to using the name Nathan again by the end of X-Factor.
So, what's the verdict on the latest Cable miniseries. I found it to rotate between average and below average. I actually had to reread the previous issue every time I read the new one because I had forgotten so much of the previous story. It got that boring at times. There are still chunks that I don't entirely remember. It was nice to see Courier, I guess, but that shouldn't be the highlight of a Cable mini. I think that separating it from the main FoX as much as it did story hurt the comic. I get that the idea was to provide readers who didn't like FoX something different, but it kind of backfired a bit.
It's to bad that this comic wasn't as good as Children of the Vault. And I still wish that that comic had been called Cable and Bishop instead. We would likely have gotten a better sense of how well a well written series involving Cable and Bishop as leads could sell comics in todays market. Not that it matters, I guess, seeing as both Cable and Bishop will be sidelined at the start of From the Ashes for arbitrary reasons.
I thought it was okay. I think if it came out earlier in FoX or later in FtA I might have enjoyed it more. As it is though, I had this feeling in the back of my mind of, "Why is this even happening? A random story out of nowhere right when the era is ending?" I would've preferred if it tied in more to FotHox and RotPoX. Also, well, I'm not wild about Kid Cable. I feel like he just unnecessarily complicates Cable's story even more. Which apparently is already at terminal levels since Brevoort cited his complicated backstory as to why he and Bishop are off the board in the new era.