| Title | : | Cable \u0026 Deadpool, Volume 1: If Looks Could Kill |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0785113746 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780785113744 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 136 |
| Publication | : | First published November 3, 2004 |
Collecting: Cable/Deadpool 1-6
Cable \u0026 Deadpool, Volume 1: If Looks Could Kill Reviews
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So this is the first proper comic book I’ve ever read and the graphics in this one is absolutely phenomenal. I love that it ended on a sort of cliffhanger with the x men. It’s rather quick witted as well. Kept me interested and it had a good plot to it.
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I completely forgot about these and only reminded i even had them since they announced another cable & deadpool series, and i haven't even read these volumes yet urgh, don't bother getting into comics it's never bloody ending...okay tantrum over and yes get into comics just expect to be poor forever and everyone telling you to shut the hell up about them.
This is pretty funny deadpool is on form, cable takes a while to warm up to unless you're a huge cable fan, also the image of him vomiting up deadpool is one that i will cherish. Plot wise it's a little strained over the six issues but at least they keep it running it's not the best plot ever but i guess you don't need the strongest plot when you have two huge personalities clashing together. Overall it's worth picking up, it's pretty funny and has its moments, if you're not sure of either character, you'll definitely warm up to them, i know not everyone loves deadpool (i mean they're wrong but okay fine) so this may be the one that changes their mind. -
This was so fun omg!
And yeah may not be the greatest start but it sets the stage for some wild story telling to come!
So both are to retrieve some virus called "facade virus" and well it turns people's body structure into a different one and Deadpool's employers "One world church" wants to make everyone blue skinned and well they send Wade for that and Cable (the hero) wants to stop it and thus we see the conflict between the two and battle and whatever is going through Deadpool's hate and maybe how he succumbs to this and some more twists and Cable having his own Techno-organic virus a challenge but when both come together to defeat the villains.. its fun.
Its a filler volume what feels like and yeah the villains feel boring but its the dynamic between the characters that I kinda loved and yeah its alright and hoping the future volumes get better and as for the art, Brooks make it look wonderful and each page a joy to look at! -
I laughed a lot, Deadpool is hilarious! So much cynicism portrayed through one character, even the errrm... whatever-the-comic-book-equivalent-of-a-prose is enticing to read. This is my first Deadpool experience and I adored it! Cable and Deadpool are such opposites and the combo really works. Interesting ending in this volume with the X-Men cameo too, will have to carry on reading...
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2.5 stars
I just can't get into this version of Deadpool. The dialogue is like a watered down version of better Deadpool books. With a writer like Way or Dugan, this could be great but instead, this feels like I'm reading the jokes they rejected. I didn't laugh once reading this book. I was also uncomfortable with the joke about underage girls being "babes in waiting". Gross.
As for the plot, it wasn't enough to draw me in either. A blue religious guy wants to make everyone blue and unified. Okay, what's stopping anyone from taking him down? He has no powers so the conflict is that he's already taken steps to make everyone else like him. It's not super interesting.
I like Cable as a character. He's interesting and I want to know more about him. The scene where he and Deadpool save each other is the only part that grabbed me.
Anyway, I want to know more about how they work together but I don't care for Nicieza's writing style at all. -
Not as much fun as I thought it would be. Also, I was not crazy about the art in the stories. Deadpool works well with Cable, but I suspect he works well with many characters (such as his recent team-up with Old Man Logan). The villains were not top notch either. But I guess we can't have Magneto or the Sentinels every time. I will not let this deter me from trying out Cable & Deadpool, Volume II. This is 3rd collection I have read using Comixology Unlimited.
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Second read: compared to the original couple of appearances DP had in the earlier 90’s (stiff like roadkill baked in the Louisiana sun), this is actually funny stuff (once Liefeld’s earnest exaggerations we’re properly deloused from the art, perhaps). All in your perspective it seems...
Original review:
Having read the later works and really enjoyed them (laugh out loud funny), the early Cable/Deadpool seems tame by comparison. Decent writing, interesting/creative storyline, but somehow left me feel... wanting. -
I like both Deadpool & Cable too much for any book w/ them to be a total dud, but I couldn't get into this plot @ all.
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Two become one in a bromance just made for a Valentine's Day read.
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This was great! I had to do some research on Cable's history, but that was a quick fix. I really liked seeing Cable and Deadpool go head to head.
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I enjoyed this one a lot. It’s a fun action packed romp with the Merc with a mouth and his not so easy going frenemy Cable. The writing was good and the art was enjoyable. What more could you want?
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This didn't really feel like Deadpool. He wasn't as crazy and as funny as I hoped he would be and I couldn't get into the story at all.
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This was kind of nice but weird as hell...
It's more about Cable than it is about Deadpool.
But this:
All those funny comments, hilarious scenes and ironic outcomes make me rethink my rating.
But I didn't like this Wade all that much.
A great Cable comic but a meh Deadpool comic.
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Cable and deadpool minus the rest of the x-force sounds pretty good. Both heroes are tasked by different groups to recover a virus. The virus can change the looks of a person which could cause serious trouble. Deadpool joins an aggressive religious group who plans on using the virus to change everyone in the world to look the same, while cable is tasked with bringing it back to another group.
The art was O.K. and the story is a little thin for me but overall a fun ride with cable and deadpool. -
I never have to ask for references to 47. They're everywhere. So that's a five star review right out of the box. While Wade is pretty much regular, ol' Deadpool - albeit the funniest I've seen him - Cable has far cooler abilities than just perfect aim with weapons bigger than he is. This story takes the two of them round the world, first separately. By the end they are inseparable - by chance, rather than choice.
Wade is hired by the One World Church to acquire a biotoxin from the pharmaceutical company Sunic. Cable is on the same trail, though he wants to destroy the biotoxin. The two of the will come to blows as a result. -
Usually I don’t write reviews but I needed to explain the 3 stars. Most Deadpool graphic novels I’ve read would be an instant 5 with maybe the odd 4 stars but this volume was different. Basically the 1st 3 issues are probably a 2 and a few 3 moments. So things just seem out of character for deadpool and humour isn’t his best. It was kinda dull and a struggle to read through but the 2nd half of the volume, issue 4 onwards definitely picks up and is mostly 4 stars with some 5 stars Deadpool moments. Just don’t read this as your 1st Deadpool graphic novel because it will give you the wrong impression of one of Marvel’s best characters.
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Maybe it's me but I just can't get into Deadpool. Not the movies or the books. Perhaps it's because the character is "supposed" to be funny instead of just funny because the book is funny. Regardless, if this book was supposed to be funny it completely missed the mark, and if it wasn't supposed to be funny... Then what was the point of it?
Overall I found the story pretty dull and a waste of time. By the end I was completely gone, barely skimming what was on the page. Maybe if you really like Deadpool or Cable this is series will be worth something for you, but to me it was an hour or so of my life I'll never get back (and wish I could!). -
Me encanta el comic, me encanta Deadpòol y me encanta Cable. ¿Qué más se puede pedir?. Guiones sólidos, humor, sangre y unos dibujos a la altura de los personajes de moda de Marvel.
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DNF. I don’t see how this one has 4/5 Stars. I was bored out of my mind 25% in.
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Really enjoyed this one! Deadpool was as sassy as ever and I enjoyed getting to know more about Cable who I'm fairly new to but love!
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This volume includes issues 1-6.
In the first issue of the volume, Deadpool goes to France to meet Anton Kruch, Prime Minister of One World Church (where everyone looks the same). Anton gives Deadpool a job- to go to Germany and retrieve a toxin (the Facade Virus) from the Sunic lab. Anton believes that the toxin can be used for good rather than evil. Next, we see Cable calling Irene Merryweather to get info about Sunic. While Deadpool is causing a huge scene at Sunic, Cable shows up.
In the second issue, we pick up with Cable and Deapool. Deadpool says, "blow my mind," so Cable shoots him right in the head and says that he will be long gone by the time Deadpool's healing factor kicks in. Next, we see a group of college kids (two boys and a girl) who call themselves the Spammers, who have taken the "virus." Then Deadpool and Cable meet up and discuss the virus. Cable says it needs to be destroyed and Deadpool says his employer says it can be used for good. Then Cable shoots Deadpool in the head again and head to a hotel where a man who has used the virus is melting. Cable takes him out, then takes out the other two that took the virus. Then Deadpool goes back to the blue colony.
In the third issue, we pick up with Cable testing his telekinetic powers to talk to Irene Merryweather. Then he has a discussion with Charles Xavier to ask him what good he can do with his powers before he can no longer control them. Later, Deadpool is being used as Anton Kruch's guinea pig and Cable is there watching without being seen to figure out what they're doing. They transform Deadpool into one of them. When they let Cable know that they knew he was snooping around the whole time, he then check the place out in the open. When Anton Kruch shows Cable "the Deliverance" he also says that they found a way to transmit the facade through the optic nerve, and Cable has been infected. When Cables goes to wreck the machine, Kruch lets Cable know that the facade also blocked his mutant abilities. Then Deadpool begins to fight with Cable.
In issue four, Deadpool and Cable fight quite a bit. Meanwhile, Irene Merryweather is trying to get information out of Sunic, but they aren't giving her much. Next, the readers find out that the batch that was stolen was flawed and that the good one is protected. Deadpool and Cable only stop fighting when Deadpool realizes that Cable isn't looking so good. Then Cable tells Deadpool that he's infected and will start to melt, Deadpool doesn't believe him until it starts happening.
In issue five, Deadpool and Cable are in quite the pickle. Deadpool is crawling over to Cable, but he melts before he gets there. Cable uses the last of his ability to move some of Deadpool's blood to him, which heals him. When Cable throws up, Deadpool grows out of the mess...Deadpool isn't pleased, but at least their both alive again and back on the same team. Then the head to Singapore to take out the real virus. When Cable gets there, their security (the Lightmaster) steps in. The Lightmaster is on One World Church's side, but Cable already knew that. So the plan that the Lightmaster and Anton had blows up, literally.
In issue six, we pick up after the explosion..which had turned everyone but Deadpool and Cable pink. Turns out Cable is behind this trick. The explosion infected everyone with a biological agent that Cable can control. Next we see Hammer and Irene Merryweather planning to save Cable from himself. Meanwhile, Cable is pulling up remnants of a space station that he used to own in order to restore his teleport matrix. What Cable doesn't know is that since he and Deadpool are now genetically bonded, when he goes to teleport, he merges with Deadpool and they have to split. Of course they begin fighting, and then Cable ends up "curing" the population of the virus and is called a savior. However, Deadpool walks away from the situation with the power to teleport just like Cable. In the very end, we see the X-Men approach SHEILD and tell them that they are ready to punish Cable for this stunt.
Favorite lines:
(In issue 1) "Colony? What're you, ants?"-Deadpool
(In issue 2) "Hey, if you looked like Ryan Renolds crossed with Shar-Pei, you'd understand!"-Deadpool
(In issue 4) "He's taking away the one thing that matters more to you than anything else in the world..."-Cable
"HE NEVER SAID ANYTHING ABOUT TAKING MY PORN!"-Deadpool
"Even more-- important --than that."-Cable
"Sweet Odin! Is that blue bozo going to take away the Taco Bells?"-Deadpool -
I decided to give this series a try despite the first few frightful sets of Liefield covers -- and I was glad that I did so. At times hilarious, at times heartfelt, this is a tale of "We-are-not-at-all-best-friends-and-we-certainly-don't-platonically-love-each-other" odd-straight-man passionate friendship/bonding between a delusional man and a psychopath.
I read this without knowledge of either Cable or Deadpool's canon and past histories, and going back to read them-- I found this current incarnation, as written by Nicieza, to be far more interesting and layered. It helped that for most of the series, where was a consistent artist and colorist group.
The series is not without its failings. Two completely disparate characters are thrown together without much thought (though the few times they have ever interacted within the confines of their own series, they had had that odd resonance with each other for very little reason.) There are McGuffins aplenty, Deadpool borders only being a bit too needy and too noisy (which, I suppose is the point). And while the art starts off strong, with Udon doing the first volume or so, and... I forget the artist that picks up after them who did a wonderful meld of his own style to the what Udon had been doing. Towards the end of the series, about when Civil War shinnanigans kick up, the art becomes pretty inconsistent. Some of the art is good, some not so much. The story begins to derail a little as Nicieza has to deal with a billion outside plotpoints prior to cancellation. Still, considering any strong portrayals of a conflicted and intense male friendship that cheerfully pokes fun at social concepts of gayness, emotionalism, and doesn't/i> disappear when the love interest/girl shows up? I read it just for that. Really.
A wonderful story while it lasted.
Also props for the interpretation of Shen Kuei-- the Cat. From a vaguely Bruce Lee villain rip off into uber hawt HK action hero star... He's been wonderfully improved upon. :D -
I mean the idea of ending racism by making everyone the same color (blue, in this case) is not exactly unproblematic but I guess for comics plots it was kind of okay? I'm not entirely sure how well everything hung together, really, although there was a part where Cable goes to Charles for therapy and I couldn't stop laughing. Imagine thinking Charles Xavier is a good person to get advice from! Anyway, Deadpool was pretty tame and sometimes I would turn the page and some Liefeld art would be staring at me, and I dislike that pretty intensely every time it happens.
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I know I'm doing a read of all X-men (and adjacent runs) from 2000, so I really should read this. But Liefeld is involved and I don't think I can bring myself to read it.
ETA: After some research it appears Liefeld is only doing the covers. I shall give them a chance.
The covers for 1 to 4 are shit but the art inside is great. I enjoyed the story and the characterisation of the Deadpool and the relationship with Cable was excellent. -
This is very nearly a four star collection. It's an easy-to-follow plot, the dialog, while never Laugh Out Loud funny, is well-written and plays to the Deadpool Says Inappropriate Shit trope without being insufferable or seeming like an excuse for the writer to be "edgy".
Unfortunately, there's a sequence in the fifth issue that's pivotal to the plot that is impossible to follow. It progresses the story to the sixth issue, but I've reread those pages for times now, and I still have no idea where most of it takes place and how it's supposed to happen.
The overall story, though, that Deadpool is hired to help a cult steal a virus that Cable is trying, for the good of humanity, to destroy works as a fine intro for the characters. You should have no problem following the story (apart from that four page sequence in issue five) even if you've never read a book with either of these characters before. There's no "As seen in Issue #4 of OldAssComic!" or "Cable and Deadpool learned to do the Watusi in OldAddComic Issue #342, On Sale Now!"
I would recommendit for people wanting to know more about these characters before seeing the Deadpool 2 movie, people who love the X-books but haven't really loved any Cable and/or Deadpool titles, X-fans who don't think Beast, Nightcrawler, Mystique, Domino,and Apocalypse should be the only blue people in the Marvel Universe, and people who wanted to read this series when it came out but couldn't get past those awful Liefeld covers. -
I have a friend who’s read a ton of comics. He told
me he’s never been a fan of Deadpool cuz the character is difficult to read and the stories are hard to get into. After Deadpool vs. Cable, vol. 1 I’m inclined to agree with him.
I think the problem is that the films ruined it for me. I loved both DP1 and DP2 so going into this modern comic iteration of the titular character, I was expecting many of the same things Ryan Reynolds brought to the screen. In short: it didn’t. Yes, the pop culture references were in place (even referring to Wade Wilson looking like Ryan Reynolds...way back in 2007, almost an entire decade before the film version), and many of the over the top moments and dark humor also made an appearance, but the feelings I had while watching Deadpool on the silver screen.
I think it’s because, unlike the films, the story here is just kind of bland. Nothing of any real importance or excitement ever really occurs and the antagonist is fairly lame. Cable and Deadpool’s relationship is a good mix of “friends by necessity” but even then, it could have been written better...like if Cullen Bunn or Greg Pak had taken this storyline.
Gotta say, I was pretty disappointed with this particular collection. I guess that probably shouldn’t surprise me since I didn’t like Secret Invasion either. Maybe the merc with a mouth just isn’t for me afterall. -
Este cómic no me hizo reír como yo esperaba pero debo de admitir que el Deadpool retratado aquí es muchísimo más grosero, rudo, caústico y ácido que el Deadpool retratado por Duggan en su serie de los últimos años.
Me gusta mucho la dupla de Cable y Deadpool. Aunque aquí comienza su relación, la razón por la cuál tienen que trabajar juntos, revelada al final, se me hace muy interesante. Creo que los autores abordan muy bien las dos personalidades tan diferentes de los personajes y las utilizan para que se complementen de la mejor manera. Realmente es uno de los dúos más interesantes de los cómics.
La historia en general se me hizo muy soso, tiene algunos giros interesantes pero en su mayoría es bastante genérica y no destaca. Los villanos no tienen motivaciones claras o particulares de alguna manera y lo realmente bueno es ver a Deadpool y Cable teniendo hostilidades. Si a esas vamos el cómic cumple muy bien de esa manera, pero soy de los lectores creyentes que aunque se utilicen personajes buenos, necesita transcurrir algo extraordinario para hacer una historia increíble. Aquí no tenemos eso y por tanto la historia se queda a medias.
Los diálogos son interesantes y hay muchas bromas. No todas me hicieron reír, tal vez debido a la hora en la que lo leía, pero aunque no se me hizo tan gracioso, las veces que me reí lo hice en voz alta y con ganas.
El arte entrega de manera promedio lo que se esperaba en este cómic, no es realmente destacable pero tampoco está mal. -
Continuing the great x-read of 2017…
I think that it takes a good writer to be able to write both Cable and Deadpool and make both of them believable and interesting (while keeping Deadpool’s trademark irreverent humor). This volume proves that there are people out there who are capable of handling it (and the art isn’t half bad, either – sort of cartoon styled, clean lines and colors that pop).
Continuing from the last interesting Cable solo book, Cable is still dealing with his god tier powers and how they should or should not be used. Deadpool is dealing with well, being Deadpool (along with a couple of moments of depth that shine through his craziness) and it just works well together. So far, the book focuses on Cable more than the marauding merc with a mouth, but I think that really works – it helps keep Deadpool fresh as I find that he’s definitely a character that can be overused pretty easily.
The plot itself is not particularly memorable but it is fun and moves quickly.
I wouldn’t put this into the absolute upper echelons of the x-books that I have read so far, but there is quite a bit of promise here. I am definitely excited to see where they take this title and what they manage to accomplish with it.
