Cable and X-Force Vol 1 3

Alternate Covers:
	Textless Variant Variant Textless; Second Printing Variant
Published	Released
March, 2013	January 9, 2013
1st story
	Writer Dennis Hallum; Penciler Salvador Larroca; Inker Salvador Larroca; Colorist Frank D'Armata; Letterer Joe Sabino; Editor Nick Lowe; Jordan D. White; Tom Brevoort;

Appearing in 1st story

Featured Characters:

X-Force (Only in flashback)
- Cable (Nathan Summers) (Only in flashback)
- Colossus (Piotr Rasputin) (Only in flashback)
- Doctor Nemesis (James Bradley) (Only in flashback)
- Domino (Neena Thurman) (Only in flashback)
- Forge (Only in flashback)

Supporting Characters:

Hope Summers (Main story and flashback)

Antagonists:

Eat-More Corporation (Only in flashback)
- Teresa Payton (Only in flashback)
- Tom (armored Eat-More's guard) (Only in flashback)
- Others armored guards (Only in flashback) (Death)

Other Characters:

Avengers Unity Squad
Cyclops (Scott Summers) (Mentioned)
Numerous mutated civilians and Eat-More worker (Main story, flashback, and flashforward) (Death)
Numerous mutant civilians (Mentioned)
Soldiers
Sentinels (Mentioned)

Locations:

New Mexico (Only in flashforward)
- Albuquerque (Only in flashforward)
  - Eat-More restaurant Eat-More restaurant (Only in flashforward)
Eat-More Corporate Headquarters (Only in flashback)
Nebraska
- Outside of Lincoln
  - X-Bunker
Arizona (Only in flashback)
- Sedona (Only in flashback)
  - Eat-More Main Processing Facility (Only in flashback)

Items:

Vehicles:

S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier

Synopsis for 1st story

Cable informs the team that they have to attack the Eat-More main processing facility. In his vision, a virus called the Girth, which attacks only non-mutants and mutates them grossly, comes from there. Thanks to Eat-More’s owner, outspoken mutant-hating billionaire Teresa Payton, this will lead to conflict between mutants and humans and countless dead. Colossus has already been smuggled in there. When Forge is bugging Eat-More’s HQ, he is captured by Payton’s people. He learns that she lost her daughter in Magneto / Xorn’s attack on New York and that she isn’t behind the virus. Forge flees from her people and returns to X-Force. Hope wants to come along the mission but Cable forbids it and Nemesis tranqs her. They open a teleportation gate to Hope’s home but, after Domino takes her through, the gate breaks down, trapping Dom on the other side. Hoping that Dom will return in time, Cable and Nemesis are to meet Colossus at the Eat-More plant which they plan to destroy before the virus gets out. Something has gone wrong, though, as they find Colossus fighting off his Girth-mutated co-workers. After the event, Hope is brought in for questioning and Havok, as leader of the Avengers Unity Squad, tries to get her to talk about Cable but she stubbornly refuses.

Solicit Synopsis

Cable orders the team to attack a civilian company, but with his powers on the fritz will his judgment be brought into question? And see where the mighty Colossus has been since the end of Avengers vs. X-Men!

Notes

The Avengers Unity Squad is supposed to promote mutant rights by having Avenges and X-Men work together.

Havok’s brother is, of course, Cyclops, who after the events of Avengers versus X-Men is wanted by the authorities. 
The Eat-More plot might refer to the real life American restaurant chain Chickfil-A, whose owner made openly anti-gay statements in 2012. 
Payton’s daughter apparently died during Xorn / Magneto’s attack on New York in New X-Men (1st series) # 150.

Links and References

www.uncannyxmen.net

Footnotes

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