CABLE (2009)

"Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Art by JAMIE MCKELVIE & ARIEL OLIVETTI Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI PRELUDE TO WAR: 'WASTELAND BLUES' PART 2 (of 2)-For more than seven years, Cable has focused on one thing: protecting the little girl who he believes will grow up to become the savior of mutantkind. But now they've timeslid into a barren, lifeless pocket of the future, where there's no food, no water, and no way out. When Cable collapses from hunger and exhaustion, the girl faces the first challenge of her young life: saving her protector. 32 PGS./Rated T+ $2.99"

"Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Pencils & 50/50 Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI 50/50 Variant Cover by KAARE ANDREWS 'X-FORCE/CABLE: MESSIAH WAR,' PART 2-The sequel to 2007's MESSIAH COMPLEX continues here! Cyclops has complete faith that his son, Cable, will do everything he can to protect the so-called mutant messiah - who he believes will save mutantkind. But he also knows what havoc former X-Man Lucas Bishop has wreaked in the nightmarish future. So now he's sent his black ops team, the X-Force, on a risky, time-traveling mission to save Cable and the child, completely unaware that there's something else waiting for them in the future. Something not even Bishop was counting on 32 PGS./Rated T+ $2.99"

"Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Art & 50/50 Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI 50/50 Variant Cover by KAARE ANDREWS 'X-FORCE/CABLE: MESSIAH WAR,' PART 4-The sequel to 2007's MESSIAH COMPLEX continues here! 'Messiah War,' the much-anticipated sequel to 'Messiah CompleX,' continues here! For the first time, Cable's been separated from the girl he's sworn to raise and protect - Hope, the so-called 'Mutant Messiah' - and now she's in the hands of his greatest enemy! Meanwhile, X-Force, sent by Cyclops on a desperate rescue mission to the deep future, scrambles to find their way out of a trap that will kill them in matter of hours. And if that's not enough, an old - some might say ancient - enemy of the X-Men has reared his ugly head one last time 32 PGS./Rated T+ $2.99"

"Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Pencils & 50/50 Variant Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI 50/50 Cover by KAARE ANDREWS 'MESSIAH WAR, PART 6'-One thousand years from now, Cable is having a very, very bad day. His own father doubts his ability to protect the mutant messiah. His former team, X-Force, has shown up to bring him back to the present, whether he likes it or not. Not one, but two of Cable's oldest and deadliest enemies threaten to annihilate them all. And now even Hope, the mutant messiah he's raised since birth, is starting to wonder if Cable's the right man for the job of keeping her alive The penultimate chapter of 'Messiah War' -- the sequel to the groundbreaking, game-changing 'Messiah Complex' -- is here! 32 PGS./Rated T+ $2.99"

"Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Penciled by PAUL GULACY Cover by DAVE WILKINS 'WANDERLOST' 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'? 32 PGS./Rated T+ $2.99"

"Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Penciled by PAUL GULACY Cover by DAVE WILKINS 70th Frame Variant by ROB LIEFELD 'WANDERLOST,' PART 2-Hope is lost. Literally - lost in time - with Cable stranded in the future, unable to travel back to save her. For the first time in Hope's short life, the so-called 'mutant messiah' has to fend for herself... and now she's hiding out in a futuristic city born of the ashes of Cable's greatest enemy, Stryfe. 32 PGS./Rated T+ $2.99"

"Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Penciled by GABRIEL GUZMAN Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI 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 32 PGS./Rated T+ $2.99"

"Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Penciled 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 PGS./Rated T+ $2.99"

"Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Penciled by GABRIEL GUZMAN Cover by DAVE WILKINS 'BROOD,' PART 3-There's trapped, and then there's trapped like when you're marooned in the vacuum of space and every part of your ship is crawling with parasitic aliens who want to plant the eggs of their unborn at the base of your spine. There's screwed, and then there's screwed like when Bishop, the mutant cop with a nuke in his arm, is set to blow everything to hell the minute he sees his target - the girl you've spent 15 years trying to protect. There's no time left. No food. No air. 32 PGS./Rated T+ $2.99"

"Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Penciled by HUMBERTO RAMOS, LAN MEDINA & PAUL GULACY Cover by MARKO DJURDEVIC 'HOMECOMING,' PART 1-PRELUDE TO 'X-MEN: SECOND COMING' EVENT! 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 PGS./Rated T+ $3.99"

"Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Penciled by GABRIEL GUZMAN Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC PRELUDE TO 'X-MEN: SECOND COMING' EVENT! 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 PGS./Rated T+ $2.99"

"Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Penciled by GABRIEL GUZMAN Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC PRELUDE TO 'X-MEN: SECOND COMING' EVENT! 'HOMECOMING, PART THREE' 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 PGS./Rated T+ $2.99"

"Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Penciled by PAUL GULACY Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC 'HOMECOMING,' CONCLUSION-This is it. The conclusion of the time-hopping action thriller launched in the pages of 'Messiah CompleX.' After hopping around New York City in the past and near future, Cable and Hope are closer than ever to the present which means that Bishop is more desperate than ever to stop them. No more hiding. No more plots. No more weapons. It's coming down to mutant vs. mutant in the subterranean tunnels of New York, and only one of them will make it back to Westchester alive. You will not want to miss this issue, which leads directly into the X-MEN: SECOND COMING crossover. 40 PGS./Rated T+ $3.99"

"Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Penciled by PACO MEDINA Cover by ROB LIEFELD Variant Cover by SIMONE BIANCHI 'TWO MUTANTS AND A BABY' DOUBLE-SIZED FINAL ISSUE CO-STARRING DEADPOOL! You know, before that red-headed would-be messiah/destroyer of the world showed up, Cable had another partner. That's right: Wade Wilson -- a.k.a. Deadpool! And while everybody's excited about Cable bringing Hope back to the present to rejoin the X-Men, they're forgetting the most important part of the story: The beginning, back when Cable first lifted the helpless baby out of her incubator up in Alaska. Wait -- You don't think Cable did that alone, did you? You don't think he managed to make his way across hundreds of miles, avoiding Predator X and Purifiers without a little assist, do you? Hell no. Cable asked for help from his favorite Merc with a Mouth and now, finally, this action-packed, oversized story can be told. Before there can be an end, there must be a beginning. 48 PGS./Rated T+ $3.99"