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X-MEN: REVOLUTION! A bold new era for the X-Men begins! His entire life was dedicated to a single purpose: to prevent humanity's destruction at the hands of Apocalypse. He trained and bled to prepare for this sacrifice. But in the end, someone else gave their life to stop the High Lord. Now, six months have passed for Cable and the Children of the Atom, and much has changed. Nathan Summers, now more than ever, is a man out of time, a stranger in a strange land, cut off from everything he believes in. But his destiny is far from complete. Has he really joined the X-Men? Who is circling in for the kill? What are the Undying and the mysterious Norns? And what does it all have to do with the Askani'son?! ?
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Cover pencils by Tony Daniel [as Antonio Daniel], inks by Scott Hanna. Fathers and Sons Part 3: Dayspring, script by Fabian Nicieza, pencils by Aron Wiesenfeld, inks by Jon Holderedge, Al Vey, Mike Sellers, Jason Minor, Scott Hanna, Kevin Conrad, Matt Banning, and Don Hudson
Full origins on Cable and Stryfe are revealed; Cable teams with Cyclops, Domino, Xaiver, Jean Grey, Tyler and Askani vs. Stryfe; Death of Stryfe.
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With Apocalypse gone, has Cable saved his future?or only created an even more twisted destiny for mankind? The inhabitants of the realm called Harmony claim to live in a utopia. There's no crime, no poverty and no unhappiness. Scientists have even found a cure for the techno-virus that ravages Nathan Summers' body. Why, then, does Cable feel that something's wrong... that something important is missing? What is the secret of Harmony? Find out in a creepy tale written by CABLE's new scribe, award-winning author, Robert Weinberg!
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Months ago, in a moment of anger, Cable laid waste to the mind of a killer. Now an enitity of immense power has filled that mental vacuum, unleashing an unrelenting force of evil known as The Undying! But while Nathan battles this enemy, another force has targeted him: a cadre of hunters bent on insuring the existence of their universe?at the expense of ours!
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The destinies of Nathan and Rachel Summers are inextricably linked. But when Cable helped defeat Apocalypse, he apparently wiped out his own future?including Rachel's emergence as the Mother Askani! Now only Phoenix remains?but she's stranded at the end of time with the man called Guant, the greatest mass murderer in recorded history! To save his sister, Cable must reach the unreachable?a place of unimaginable desolation called the House on the Borderline!
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Nathan and Rachel Summers have been reunited?but they're trapped at the end of time! Their only hope is to defeat the warrior that calls himself Gaunt?a madman banished to this desolate place for the millions of lives he's snuffed out! But what is his true interest in Cable and Phoenix?and what tragedy could the duo unleash even if they defeat him?
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Guest-starring Nightcrawler! In the aftermath of "Dream's End," Nathan Summers is tormented by the knowledge that the future is doomed. Can Kurt Wagner restore the Chosen One's hope? "CABLE hasn't been this good since the Joe Casey/Ladronn days?heck, it's the best the book has ever been!" -Eric J. Moreels, X-Fan.com
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As the man called Cable wrestles with his place in the X-Men, a new menace lurks in the shadows! From the offices of Washington D.C. to the alleys of the homeless, these seemingly ordinary people seem to be all around him?and their sinister agenda focuses on Nathan!
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Cover pencils by M. C. Wyman, inks by Al Vey. The Killing Field: In Humanity, script by Fabian Nicieza, pencils by M. C. Wyman, inks by Jason Gorder
Cable visits Excalibur so that Moira can study his mindlink with Rachel; Omega Red shows up to crash the party with the Acolytes hot on his trail.
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"Countdown" continues with the subversive Dark Sisterhood poised to take over the U.S. government! Only Cable knows their plans ? but he's been stripped of his allies and resources! Can one man stop a conspiracy that is only heartbeats away from the Presidency of the United States? "Bob Weinberg crafts intricate, intriguing and well-structured stories full of fresh ideas." -Dean Koontz
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He's fought the worst despots ever to walk the Earth. But now Nathan Summers is about to meet his strangest adversary, whose origins he could have never dreamed. Who is "Old Man Coll"? And what terrible lesson wil he impart to Cable?
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A techno-organic flare-up leaves Cable at the mercy of the Shining Path and their sexy leader! Meanwhile, a military man asks for more money, a young boy may hold the future of the Askani movement, and a late-night raid by government forces forces the terrorists to fight in their pajamas! Hey, it's just another day down in the jungles of Peru!
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Sinister returns in an adventure tied directly into the ongoing Cable series (and "End Times")!
Cable--whom he bred to be the ultimate mutant--is never very far from the sight of Sinister. But the mad genius engineered his birth for a specific purpose--to destroy Apocalypse! Now the man once known as Nathaniel Essex has returned to offer the Askani'son what may be his only chance to beat Apocalypse. The terrible questions are: how can Cable defeat his arch-nemesis now that his powers are almost gone; just what will he have to give up to achieve his ultimate goal; and is even the demise of Apocalypse worth the price?
Written by Michael Higgins and Karl Bollers. Pencils by German Garcia and Alitha Martinez.
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Waiting for the World to End: Part 4 of 4 - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Pencils & Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI
In the present, Cyclops, Emma and Beast have been ambushed by Bishop and a nasty little surprise he's smuggled into the X-Men HQ. Meanwhile, hundreds of years in the future, Cable realizes what the former X-Man has done to the planet -- all in an effort to make sure Cable and the four-year-old mutant messiah never, ever return to the present. Once again, the rules of the hunt have been completely rewritten, and the future of mutantkind has never looked more uncertain.
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Prelude to War: Wasteland Blues: Part 1 of 2 -Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Art by JAMIE MCKELVIE & ARIEL OLIVETTI Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI
Deep in the future, Cable and the now seven-year-old mutant messiah find themselves in the middle of humanity's last stand. And humanity loses! Cable is forced to timeslide into an uncertain future, hoping to find survivors, or food, or water... anything. But the longer Cable and the girl wander, the greater the devastation. As they fight to survive out in the barren wastelands, the girl starts to ask Cable the tough questions he's been dreading-namely: who am I, and why do some people want me dead?
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WanderLost: Part 1 - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI. Art by PAUL GULACY. Cover by DAVE WILKINS.
We open literally one second after the shattering conclusion of 'Messiah War,' and Cable's mission to save mutantkind has never looked more bleak. In fact, you can't even call it a mission anymore... After all he's been through, after all he's survived...now all Cable can do now is pray-pray the heavily-armed killers roaming the deep future can't match his survival skills. And what is the fate of Hope-the so-called 'Mutant Messiah'?
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BROOD: Part 1 - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI. Art by GABRIEL GUZMAN. Cover by DAVE WILKINS.
Some call space the 'final frontier.' But for time-traveling mutant soldier Cable and Hope - the so-called 'mutant messiah' - space is their last and only chance at survival. The Earth is dead, thanks to their foe Bishop, and if Hope is going to make it to adulthood, she's going to have to do it in the cold, lonely vacuum of space, alone except for dark forces that know she's coming. Forces which are very, very hungry...
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BROOD: Part 2 - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI. Art by GABRIEL GUZMAN. Cover by DAVE WILKINS.
'QUEEN CAPTURES BISHOP'-As it turns out, space isn't the place for Cable and Hope. Against all odds, Bishop has found them again, and taken their spacecraft hostage. All Bishop needs is to see the girl. Once he has visual confirmation, it's simply a matter of triggering the nuclear bomb hidden in his arm, and his lifelong mission to save the X-Men (and Earth) is over. And there are only so many places to hide in a small transport vessel on the far reaches of our solar system. But there is someone else aboard the vessel, and she doesn't care about Cable or Bishop's war. She's been drawn to the life force of one of the vessel's inhabitant, and she and her army will stop at nothing until they have her...Enter: The Brood Queen!
32 pages, full color. Cover price $2.99.
Messiah Complex Aftermath - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Pencils by ARIEL OLIVETTI.
'ARMS,' Part 1 A new ongoing series spinning out of the decade's biggest X-Men event! The future of mutantkind starts here! 'Messiah CompleX' changed the X-Men forever. But no one's world has been rocked as hard as Cable, the time-traveling mutant from the future. He's been charged with the one mission that could save all of mutantkind -- or, if he fails, damn it to extinction. And hot on his trail is a relentless enemy who won't stop until blood is spilled. No matter where...or when...Cable runs. Brought to you by the dynamic team of Duane Swierczysnki and Ariel Olivetti.
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X-MEN: SECOND COMING PRELUDE! - 'HOME COMING': Part 1 - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI. Art by HUMBERTO RAMOS, LAN MEDINA and PAUL GULACY. Cover by MARKO DJURDEVIC.
From the moment Cable jumped into the time stream with the infant 'mutant messiah,' he's had only one goal: keep Hope alive until she can choose her own destiny. But now, stranded on a planet in its death throes, eating fried rat on a stick for the millionth time, Hope turns to Cable and tells him she's ready to go home. Thus begins 'Homecoming,' the penultimate chapter in the X-Men saga that began with 'Messiah CompleX.' It's not only zero hour for Cable and Hope, but also for the mutant hunting them, Lucas Bishop, who is rapidly running out of chances to save mutantkind and the world. Because if Hope does make it back to the present, everything changes for the X-Men.
40 pages, full color. Cover price $2.99.
X-MEN: SECOND COMING PRELUDE! - 'HOME COMING': Part 2 - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI. Art by GABRIEL GUZMAN. Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC.
The penultimate chapter in the X-Men saga that began with 'Messiah CompleX' continues here! Now that Hope's told Cable that she's ready to join the X-Men in the present, Cable risks it all to repair his busted time machine. Finally, after years of being stuck in a one-way trip to oblivion, Cable and Hope leap into the past. But the Mutant Messiah and her surrogate father miss the mark by more than a few hundred years, finding themselves in a primitive Manhattan - and hunted by a mutant who just doesn't know the meaning of the word 'quit.'
32 pages, full color. Cover price $2.99.
X-MEN: SECOND COMING PRELUDE! - 'HOME COMING': Part 3 - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI. Art by GABRIEL GUZMAN. Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC.
The penultimate chapter in the X-Men saga that began with 'Messiah CompleX' continues here! As Cable and Hope fight their way back to the present, Bishop closes in on their trail, determined to stop them using the deadliest weapons at hand, be it a Prohibition-style tommy gun or heat-seeking brain needles of the near future. Meanwhile, a few decades from now, Cable and Hope meet an old ally who could either save them-or jeopardize everything. This is it...the penultimate issue of the time-hopping action thriller born in the pages of 'Messiah CompleX.'
32 pages, full color. Cover price $2.99.
Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI. Messiah Complex Aftermath - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Pencils by ARIEL OLIVETTI
A new ongoing series spinning out of the decade's biggest X-Men event! The future of mutantkind continues here! There's only one thing worse than a heavily-armed man with murder on the brain. And that's several heavily-armed men, none of whom give a damn about Cable's mission to save mutantkind from total extinction. Meanwhile, Cable's newest enemy-Lucas Bishop-crawls back from bloody oblivion and tracks down his quarry the hard way: one brutal time jump after another. When Bishop finally catches up wit Cable, he's not going to be in the mood for small talk. It'll be kill first, ask questions later.
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Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI. Messiah Complex Aftermath - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Pencils by ARIEL OLIVETTI.
Your name is Nathan Summers. You've just met a nice Jersey girl. She's blonde, soft-spoken, and she doesn't mind the fact that you have a kid...or a bullet in your chest...or a big scary guy with a robot arm that wants to kill you. But you can't stay here. The future of mutantkind is resting on your shoulders and the longer you stick around, playing house, the bigger the risk. Especially when an old friend comes blasting out of the past...
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