Throughout Liefeld’s X-Force run, most of the characters are constantly going on about how brutal and bloodthirsty they are. NEW MUTANTS: DEAD SOULS #2 Pits the Team Against Frost Giants in an Arctic Adventure By the time X-FORCE starts, the fully formed squad hits the ground running. This all happens during the last three issues of NEW MUTANTS. He drives away all of the remaining New Mutants except Boom-Boom and Cannonball, then Feral, Proudstar (later known as Warpath), Domino, and Shatterstar all conveniently drop in, and Cable gets his team. So, to assist him in this war, Cable recruits a motley crew of whatever mutants happen to be nearby at the time. Stryfe, by the way, is a ridiculous armored figure who spends his time hiding in various hi-tech lairs without really doing much. As established earlier in NEW MUTANTS, Cable, for reasons that remain unrevealed during Liefeld’s run, is at war with the Mutant Liberation Front, a radical mutant terrorist organization lead by Cable’s archnemesis Stryfe. Image courtesy of Marvel Entertainment.įrom there, X-Force’s story truly begins. Sunspot finds out that Cable couldn’t care less. Cable goes from being inexplicably paternalistic to being the rude-dude-with-attitude he was always meant to be.
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Then, in NEW MUTANTS #97, writer Louise Simonson leaves, and Liefeld gets full control over the plot. Which is made all the more suspicious by the New Mutants becoming suddenly devoted to him. So, it’s pretty unclear as to why he’s involved with the X-Men, to begin with. Aside from a few nonsensical tidbits here and there, Cable’s convoluted origin story isn’t explained at all in NEW MUTANTS and Liefeld’s X-FORCE run, and his powerset in those comics seems limited to just having a robot arm and whole lot of guns. In the comic itself though, Cable becoming the leader of the New Mutants felt less than inspiring. While Xavier stayed behind in his wheelchair and used his cowardly mind powers, Cable was a man of action, a mentor-figure who fought on the front lines with his vaguely indefinite arsenal of poorly drawn firearms. At the time, editor Bob Harras, writer Louise Simonson, and Liefeld intended for Cable to be a newer, fresher alternative to Professor X. Image courtesy of Marvel Entertainment.Ĭable first appeared in NEW MUTANTS issue #87 and quickly took over as the team’s leader. Well, to understand that, you first have to learn about the man who started it all. Now, at this point, you’re probably wondering what X-Force actually is besides being a more threatening version of the X-Men. So, with that in mind, let’s take a look at the original 90’s versions of the heroes we’ll be seeing in DEADPOOL 2.ĪLL-NEW WOLVERINE #33 Takes a Trip to the Future Of course, one of the best representations of comics’ “awkward angry teen” phase would have to be Liefeld’s first major title, X-FORCE. Images courtesy of Marvel Entertainment, DC Comics, and Image Comics, respectively. This made Liefeld one of the most influential artists during that period. Liefeld’s distorted artwork and perpetually sneering heroes matched up well with the grimdark ethos 90’s comics were going for. Carnage came along and made Venom seem heroic by comparison, and so on. Hal Jordan went crazy and massacred most of the Green Lantern Corps. Granted, there was more to them than that, but the damage was done.Īngry and dark became the hot new trend for superhero comics in the 90’s. A lot of people thought this was because they portrayed superheroes as a bunch of overly-violent self-centered neurotics. 1īack in the mid-to-late 80s, comics like WATCHMEN and THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS garnered critical acclaim. Images courtesy of Marvel Entertainment.ĭESPICABLE DEADPOOL #291 Exclusive Preview: Kill Cable, Vol. Let’s take a look at what these characters were originally like in the comics. Well, X-Force members Cable, Domino, Shatterstar, and even Deadpool himself first appeared during Rob Liefeld’s tenure on NEW MUTANTS, which would become the basis for X-FORCE itself. So, based on what we’ve seen so far, how do these new cinematic heroes compare to their comic book origins? The highly anticipated sequel promises to shake things up by introducing X-Force, the grim and gritty mutant superhero team known for putting a darker spin on the already angsty world of the X-Men. INFINITY WAR’s over for now, but that doesn’t mean superhero season’s quite done yet! Coming up in about a week is DEADPOOL 2.