Cable #1 - Atop the Fourth Wall

I think this comic was really just a promotional piece to try to create fingerbeam technology.
Originally uploaded August 3rd, 2009.
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RUMINATIONS: When I eventually release an episode for Atop the Fourth Wall, I need to give this episode its proper title - Cable: Blood and Metal #1. At the time, I didn't realize it was the first of a mini-series since I had seen other Cable #1 comics out there that I figured were just sporting an alternate cover. Not much to say about the comic that isn't said in the episode: the artwork is bad, the writing atrocious, and Stryfe is forever one of the worst designs for a supervillain ever.
I'm sure what's of greater interest to people is the ending, which not only features another Mechakara appearance, but one of the few times I've done the "character from the thing I'm reviewing" appears. I don't usually do it because there's only so much suspension of disbelief can be pushed with skits and storylines in reviews - many would have you believe that apparently all these different franchises are happening simultaneously with the "real" world of the reviewer, but that's never sat right with me. It's why I eventually gave an explanation for how Linkara had tech from Power Rangers, Star Trek, and etc. Hell, I was already using toys for it, so I might as well play into that.
But then there's this episode, which features me playing Cable. And of course Cable has a tin foil arm because, well, that's what I had to work with. The costume was really simple - painted cardboard for the shoulderpad, cardboard "X" symbol over a blue sleeveless shirt, and a marker to create the Cable eye scar. The goal of the appearance was more to establish Mechakara some more AND to get Linkara the BFG. If I recall correctly, my mother played the Mechakara arm that grabbed Cable at the end, filmed in my brother's old room (which had basically become a big storage closet and green-screen room for me), and the point of it was just to show that Mechakara wants to torture Linkara himself, wanting no one else to share in his machinations.
And nope, still hadn't figured out his backstory yet.

[@348joey]

What kind of parents name their kid Cane? Adam and Eve.

[@AT4W]

Well, yeah, but that's because no precedent had been set yet! XD

[@mattdasher8586]

348joey It's his last name. His first name is Garrison.

[@SnowyDragoon]

+Matthew Dasher garrison may be even worse.

[@1manorgy]

+348joey hey, it beats Kal-El. it's barely excusable when you're an alien, let alone when your last name is Coppola Cage.

[@Samm815]

dammit you beat me to it!

[@benjaythewhite]

"What parents name their kid Kane?" Paul Bearer.

[@SpeedyEric1]

There is an actor named Kane Hodder, and he played Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th Parts 7 - 10.

[@panbat2367]

And the jackal.

[@edvance1030]

I'll tell you who. Adam and Eve.

[@Tareltonlives]

OHHHHH YEEEEEEESSSS!

[@snakes3425]

and look how he turned out

[@EXSwitchback]

I can't believe Rob Liefeld created Cable and the image of Deadpool, man am I behind. But hey, guess a broken clock's right twice a day...

[@islamroks11]

***** He only made the physical person, not the goofy, bloodthirsty, bat-shit crazy personality we all love.

[@autobotstarscream765]

islamroks11 Liefeld created a character and *didn't* make him goofy, bloodthirsty, and batshit crazy?

[@islamroks11]

Well, not intentionally goofy...

[@SilverHairedFreak25]

@@autobotstarscream765 yeah ironically he's much more downplayed compared to now lol

[@ecliptorcalrissian5014]

@@SilverHairedFreak25 Apparently, Liefeld painted Slade red and put Spider-Man's mask on him; Nicieza made the Deadpool you actually care about.

[@PapaKennMedia]

The pure joy in your voice when saying "SWEET! New gun!" was priceless. Great episode, reuisu.

[@wellthatwaswierd4570]

"I sure did! You just said Great Goobers!" I laughed so hard I accidentally spat out my drink

[@Fluffkitscripts]

Looking at Rob Liefeld artwork always makes me more confident in my abilities as a character designer.

[@Reaverbro]

16:24 Styfe's cape is CLEARLY being held up by his shoulder spikes! Come on, man.

[@SpiderandMosquito]

4:05 what does this remind me of? Simmons: Hey. Grif: Yeah? Simmons: You ever wonder why we're here? Grif: It's one of life's great mysteries huh? "Why are we here"...? Simmons: What? I mean why are we out here in this canon? Grif: Oh! Yeah... Simmons: What was all that stuff about God? Grif: Nothing! Simmons: You wanna talk about it? Grif: No Simmons: You sure? Grif: Yeah!

[@gabrielpetricevic6606]

I thought of it as soon I heard those lines

[@cinemachief8253]

Christian Schmude mah man

[@frostbite9071]

"Just like I needed to a learn a lesson once. I needed to learn that learn that... The true strength of a person isn't found in soft fluffy clouds or cute bunny rabbits, but in a tightly closed fist and a barrel of a gun..." I'm disappointed. The real Cable in the comic would've said like this- "Just like I needed to a learn a lesson once... I needed to learn that learn that... The true strength of a person isn't found in soft fluffy clouds or cute bunny rabbits... But in a tightly closed fist... And a barrel of a gun..."

[@GreatAwesomeReviewer]

Cable is hunting the MILF? MAH MAN!

[@thecomicnation1085]

Lol

[@JunAoi]

He has a history of doing so yes.

[@djpeanutbutterjelly]

I might be stupid, but I literally just realized that '90s Kid's background music is Smells Like Teen Spirit.

[@WraithTDK]

A lot of cliches started in the 1990's; but all in all, I'd happily re-read that decade than this past one.

[@lopson8683]

My life means their deaths? What you talkin' bout, Summers!

[@georgekostaras]

I'm sensing that Leifield was channeling Frank Miller in this comic

[@autobotstarscream765]

georgekostaras Liefeld and Miller: A match made in Hell.

[@Archon3960]

I'M FRANK MILLER NOW... THIS CAN'T BE GOOD!!

[@TheMamaluigi300]

@@Archon3960 *Now* he’s Frank *Miller!* That can’t *be* good!

[@1manorgy]

90's Kid was mistaken. That comic wasn't called BLOOD GUN, it was called DOOM.

[@mariic2]

+CWDTrixie ..."Help!"

[@PolarPhantom]

Total Recall's a good ass movie.

[@SpeedyEric1]

0:35- And 5 years after this episode was released, X-Men: Days of Future Past (an X-Men story with time travel) has become the critically best X-Men film by far. 8:47- The Comedian from Watchmen is more of a comedian than you'll ever be, Cable. Anakin Skywalker only talked about not liking sand ONCE. 14:43- I wonder how much the Soviets in the Marvel Universe spent on the Crimson Dynamo before what happened in Chernobyl. I look forward on how well they'll do Cable in the sequel to the Deadpool movie.

[@davidspring4003]

actually, 90's kid kinda has an interesting idea. Not Bloodgun, that's stupid, but a comic's story told only thru the pictures. No dialogue or narration at all...sort of an anti-novel (i.e. a novel is a story told entirely thru text, the story in question would be told entirely thru still pictures.)

[@Maximara]

+Hamro The first issue of _The Many Deaths of the Batman_ (Batman Vol 1 433 May, 1989) did the same thing. Interesting The Batman Murders novel came out in paperback the next year with a similar mystery only this time the Batman's old foe the Joker is behind it.

[@Annatar3019]

GI Joe's silent issue about Snake Eyes going into a COBRA base to rescue Scarlet was a well made example of this.

[@davidspring4003]

***** does that explain why so many comics had melodramatic narations?

[@MaxiaPumi]

Something like this: kissmanga(.)com/Manga/Gunjou-Gakusha/Vol-001-Ch-006--Forest-of-Wonder?id=155818 ?

[@davidspring4003]

***** more or less.

[@conradojavier]

DAMN YOU ANCIENT EGYPT!(Imperial Music March playing)

[@filiesillo]

I have listened to that song at least once a week for a long time and I just understood the part of "He's a man, punch" and I've seen that damn episode like 20 times lol

[@TheSilentGM]

So Kane is basically discount android 16 from DBZ....gotcha

[@Tareltonlives]

Android 17: THAT IS SO COOL!

[@autobotstarscream765]

9:27 Proof that the Weapon X program is heartless and soulless.

[@jamesadamsfl]

How is this an X-Man story? People are CALLED Mutants, but everyone’s powers seemed to be based on cybernetics not genetic mutations. Also, why is the barrel of Cable’s gun smaller than its magazine? Cable was a clear sign of Liefeld’s art and storytelling style: a complete mess. This isn’t even like Frank Miller who used to be good before he went crazy. Between this and Youngblood, Im left wondering Liefeld EVER good!

[@thisjustincomics]

"Who names their kid KANE??" Well, we have a celeb named TUESDAY NIGHT so I'm not too surprised

[@MetalheadCinemaniac]

The beginning joke about X-Men having aliens & time travel when it should be about the persecution themes is pretty funny because the reason why X-Men became popular in the first place is that they mix fun stuff like aliens, demons & time travel with the angsty persecution metaphor. If you remove everything else and focus only on the angsty persecution metaphor then you get FoX-Men in all the Fox films and we've all seen how those turned out

[@pious83]

*If you remove everything else and focus only on the angsty persecution metaphor then you get* ..God Loves, Man Kills - One of the most iconic X-Men stories of all time?

[@BrendanJSmith]

Some Guy well it’s good news that the X-Men are in Marvel’s hands again!

[@Fluffkitscripts]

That’s a pretty cynical take on themes. X-factor managed to pull it off!

[@alansunter2383]

Am I the only one who kinda wants to see the Linkara Cable (LinkCable, if you will) return on the show?

[@ZeldaTheSwordsman]

IDK, Stryfe's design is basically really fancy plate armor, so I think it could be revised into something good. Those things on his helmet are cheekguards - somewhat decorative, but also serving to intercept sword swings and the like. And what's pushing his cape up are those shoulder spikes. Which you kinda shoulda seen considering that Stryfe took up a two-page spread to give everyone a look at the details :P XD

[@juggernaut44]

+ZeldaTheSwordsman u tell em zelda. lts logic

[@SeekerLancer]

You know the 90's were a backward ass time when someone asked JRJR to draw like Rob Liefeld. God dammit. If you have JRJR working for you, you let the man draw whatever the hell he wants.

[@Ektalon]

If Stryfe is a clone of Cable, why do they both have the same scars around their left eye?

[@TupocalypseShakur]

They scarred them both to confuse them

[@FrankLightheart]

Here's a question: If this MFL wants these artifacts so bad, but they're not worth much to archeologists... why don't they just buy them from the museums? Forget for a moment how ridiculous it is to send an entire team of highly trained mutant terrorists to rob a lightly guarded museum, if this unit has enough money to buy secret bases with large computer screens, high-end weapons, and cutting edge cybernetics, you'd think they'd be able to just pay the museums enough money to take those "worthless" artifacts off their hands.

[@Delta4280]

because.... plot

[@FrankLightheart]

Delta4280 Not manly enough?

[@Delta4280]

FrankLightheart No.... just too stupid to find a reasonable explanation :P

[@saidi7975]

Stryfe did not want to go over budget (being one of the few Marvel villains that PAYS his henchmen) or he wanted to troll them (he does that a lot !).

[@FrankLightheart]

saidi7975 I guess it's just more manly this way.

[@LaNoLaCola]

I'm so glad I found this and part two at a yard sale

[@rorylumley4727]

Cable: wild pack its party time domino get the snacks.

[@autobotstarscream765]

10:24 Steiff: the most fearsome teddy bears in the world! :3

[@paulopereira7069]

17:51 Kane is facing the right way. If you were to be knocked upside down by a blow to the back, that's the way you'd be facing.

[@ForcedHandleName]

I know it's 2 years too late, but with the panelling set up, it seems like Kane is facing the hologram with Cable suddenly appearing behind him while punching. It's a violent perspective shift that doesn't flow well, which is why Linkara is stating that Kane got flipped backwards.

[@Lost-Lilim]

A reason parents might name their child Kaine, is so they could say they were 'raising Kaine'.

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

"Cable! Time's up!" Streaming services have arrived!

[@DogoHalibar]

Cable is okay, but I do prefer Deadpool, though of course, Liefeld only created the design and everyone else, even Ryan Reynolds, made Deadpool awesome!!

[@MrEricon9]

Daniel Way took away some of that awesome, imo.

[@thephantomoftheparadise5666]

90's or modern version?

[@ABCodeX]

The Phantom of the Paradise Between 90's Deathstroke rip off and the videogame was when he was the best, after the game, he lost all his depth and just become an annoying meme machine.

[@TupocalypseShakur]

@@ABCodeX the game started that, since it was joke after in there

[@Fluffkitscripts]

Well, I can buy the idea of a futuristic laser-gun having both rifle and three-shot settings.

[@CosmoShidan]

With that super-duper high-tech prosthetic arm, why would Cable need an over-abundance of guns eh?!

[@ecliptorcalrissian5014]

This is the origin of BloodGunn? Whoa.

[@JunAoi]

His surname is Kane. His given name is Garrison. No one (except Paul Bearer) names their kid Kane.

[@drakesucks]

Clearly, Linkara has never heard of the primarchs

[@sathrielsatanson]

Yes, there were things in the 80s that we would like to forget... like Jem and the Holograms :D

[@capmar-vell9243]

9:22 Mazinger style rocket punch.

[@SMAXZO]

Good to know that I'm not the only one who thought of that.

[@Bobsheaux]

21:03 - Epic 90s mugging! XD

[@robotdude2206]

This is my research for the upcoming Deadpool movie sequel.

[@nack287]

+The Robotic Weirdo Well you have probably 2 years to wait. And lots to read still.

[@ultra6671]

It's honesty amazing how one of Linkara's most used weapons was stolen from Cable of all people.

[@WTFisTingispingis]

I feel like a lot of these stories would've been drastically improved, if about as valued as Expandable with Superheroes, but man did they get the wrong guys doing these. Part of me wants to take a whack at it and see what happens.

[@MicrowavedAlastair5390]

"Alcohol is the only way you could enjoy this" I beg to differ. Three different antihistamines taken within the hour can be pretty fun. I'm assuming it's like being stoned, but I don't know because I am allergic to the hemp family, which includes weed. Anyway, I felt really drowsy and floaty for a day. The things you learn having allergic reactions.

[@TwoCentReview]

Maybe Russia was bankrupt from building giant robots?

[@isaacbailey3681]

10:46 was the best part, honestly.

[@tacaloking4]

maybe the robot suits are why the soviet union went bankrupt

[@thehoodedteddy1335]

Out of curiosity (if you're even paying attention to a video this old) who would you credit as creating deadpool as we know him now?

[@pious83]

Joe Kelly

[@Rhomega]

I'm now imagining the Blood Gun of Bloodgun shooting out a spray of blood everywhere.

[@ericpetersen6343]

Strife is the "angel in the centerfold "

[@amiablereaper]

Oh Jesus, I only ever found cable through a friend's "guide to marvel superheroes" book when I was a kid, and thought he was cool because hey, cyborg!. This origin story..... I'm almost ashamed I ever liked this guy

[@gabrielpetricevic6606]

90s kid is the reason i subbed

[@sr.favopossodeixarvaziosim4595]

Ancient Egypt strikes again! Will its evil ever cease?

[@franeldrug549]

Love the tin foil arm hilarious!

[@Tareltonlives]

I still can't believe this was a franchise

[@noahmagana137]

Ten years since the birth of BLOODGUN

[@Tareltonlives]

"Well, that's just lazy writing"

[@jeffdrowned7163]

Is it bad that every time he says Reaper I think of Overwatch.

[@thomaslebel6922]

Wait, "Orsay Museum"? COME ON! There are no swords in that museum, it's a museum about art in the 19th century! mostly paintings and a few sculptures. you are thinking of the Louvres here.

[@Ultimus31]

Oh man, so this is where he got the combine harvester gun. Neato!

[@brownwindedangel]

Man Linkara’s stand is pretty awesome looking

[@RaphBlade7]

Well, at least Linkara got a new gun thanks to his brief conflict with Cable! *The following is the opinion of a Salty SEAGULL named EARL who just shows up in my posts whenever he feels like it!* [EARL the Salty SEAGULL:] "Linkara did point out the real Cable has white hair, so I'd call the guy Link-Cable (who is from an alternate universe where Linkara & Cable are the same person & took it upon himself to hunt down comic reviewers who don't like comics featuring him by Rob Liefield! However, after being defeated by Linkara with a magnet & losing his gun, Link-Cable ended up forced to move in with his universe's version of Deadpool, who unfortunately lacks his iconic personality as he takes after the original Deadpool by Rob Liefield)!"

[@Nymphonomicon]

"PHOONPHOONPHOONPHOON" Is that supposed to be the sound of gunfire?

[@TtheWriter]

I do like the careful build up, even in these early stages, towards Mecha-kara. :)

[@MyMagnificentOctopus]

There really is no way they could know that "MILF" would become such a popular acronym, but since it did, the pages involving the "MLF" are oddly amusing looking back from the future.

[@Tareltonlives]

Oh, he doesn't have rocket-powered fists...(BOOM) I stand corrected

[@TevyaSmolka]

Yeah this cable comic is really 90s

[@IronSheepEngine]

My dad was laughing at the scene where Cane was shooting his fists out like an action figure.

[@aarengabriel8106]

I actually expected you to go "sweet merciful crap" when you got to the explosion at the World Trade Center.

[@genesismultiverse4896]

Well I Want To Say Rob Making Red And Annoying Is Another Reason To Hate Rob Liefeled

[@capmar-vell9243]

The Anakin-like dude is called ''Grim Reaper''.

[@spiderguy2576]

This comic predicted the further

[@MyMagnificentOctopus]

Flying fists and finger weapons? Someone had Shogun Warriors when they were a kid.

[@soleilcrona1390]

But you see Linkara, the name Kane drives his parents' brain and makes them come alive. [guitar riff]

[@roguishpaladin]

Kane is 90's Kid's name?

[@jeffdrowned7163]

90's kid is the best!

[@capmar-vell9243]

I would buy a Bloodgun comic.

[@dakotadoyle7573]

Looks like reaper has been *puts on sunglasses* Disarmed

[@TheLowBrassDude]

Sadly horizontal two page spreads somehow found their way into a fantastic modern comic, Saga.

[@LizardOfOz69]

Guys, if you follow the storylines, watch part 11 of Spoony's FFVIII Review and also Spoony's first part of Clones of Bruce Lee before this.

[@Fluffkitscripts]

Oh no, not the most evil villain ever to defile the pages of a comic!!! Not him!! Not... STYFE!!!

[@gregorblack5557]

JRJr is great & hopefully he'll do a Wal-Mart 100page book! Or they'll put in Suicide Squad he worked on!! I'm also hoping for Grant Morrison to quickly get an intro Green Lantern story. Make it happen folks ,fans & Warner Brooooos

[@ghjk9592]

ahhh the sideways double page spread was a Liefeld special.

[@TheMightyBattleSquid]

Could the 5th one's name be kamikaze? The way cable talks it seems possible.

[@NathanWubs]

The mega shoulderpads are still a thin. Look at world of warcraft. The biggest and most rare shoulder parts give you the most swag.

[@TOK150]

I wanna see a return of cable-linkara lol

[@TheMamaluigi300]

19:08 Actually, I don’t think those are finger beams. I think he’s using SHINING FINGER!

[@slashandbones13]

Rusty from Deadpool 2

[@benjaminjones2185]

Who knew there was a Judo Punch along with Austin Power's Judo Chop.

[@70Jack90]

I have that physical copy of this comic!

[@erwinkrauss7577]

16:26 The cape dosen't flow, it rest on the spike of its shoulderpad.

[@PolarPhantom]

+Erwin Krauss And I'm not sure which is dumber.

[@Hawbitten]

So did we ever find out what Mechakara did with Cable and will we ever see him again?

[@jonathanwarrdddedcxddeecec4787]

Also oh me oh my I adore linkaras terrible cable cosplay especially the tin foil arm

[@najhoant]

If you want a good Cable story, check out the Time Fugitives episodes from the X-Men animated series

[@TevyaSmolka]

najhoant yup

[@isaacargesmith8217]

Liefeld is confirmed illuminati.

[@badjokemaker3051]

Isaac Argesmith He must be one of the most important members.

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

"There are some things in the 80s that we wish we could forget about." Oh, come on, man. Transformers wasn't that bad.