Cable confronts the horrors of his past in this exclusive preview
Nathan “Cable” Summers has one of the most convoluted backstories of any superhero character, but with the right creative team, that history can provide rich narrative material to push the psychic commando forward. Writers Lonnie Nadler and Zac Thompson are newcomers to the world of superheroes, and they’re taking what they’ve learned on their creator-owned books—Black Mask’s The Dregs and Come Into Me—and applying it to Cable. They’re taking the series in a horror-influenced direction, with much of the horror stemming directly from the character’s past. In their first issue on the series, they had Cable and his daughter, Hope, facing off against Metus, a creepy creature that has been haunting Nathan since childhood. And for next week’s issue, the creative team explores a different era of Cable’s life, looking at the period when he and Hope were traveling through time on the run from Cable’s former ally, Bishop.