X-Force Vol 1 8

X-Force #8

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Art by: Rob Liefeld

Release Date

January 28, 1992

Cover Date

March, 1992

Issue Details

Editor-in-Chief

Tom DeFalco

Fine then, if a boy would be king -- then a boy needs to learn how to be a man first!

—Cable

Appearing in "Flashed Before My Eyes"

Featured Characters:

X-Force
- Cannonball (Sam Guthrie) (Deceased)
- Cable (Nathan) (Main story and flashback)
- Boom Boom / Boomer (Tabitha Smith)

Supporting Characters:

Wild Pack (Only in flashback) (First appearance)
- Grizzly (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Domino (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- G. W. Bridge (Only in flashback)
- Garrison Kane (Only in flashback)
- Hammer (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
"Professor" (First appearance as the Professor) (Only in flashback)

Antagonists:

Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
- Sauron (Karl Lykos)
Morlocks (Behind the scenes)
Several unnamed Hydra agents (Only in flashback)
Baron von Strucker (Only in flashback) (Appears on screen)
Unnamed A.I.M. soldiers (Only in flashback)

Other Characters:

Cable's robot servants, "Scott", "Jean" and "Hank" (First appearance)
X-Men (Mentioned)
- Professor X (Charles Xavier) (Mentioned)
High Lords (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

Locations:

Earth-616 (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
  - North America (Main story and flashback)
    - United States of America (Main story and flashback)
      - New York
        Adirondack Mountains
        X-Force Headquarters
      - New Mexico (Only in flashback)
        Hydra base (Destruction) (Only in flashback)
      - Oklahoma (Only in flashback)
      - Cumberland, Kentucky (Mentioned)
Earth-4935 (Only in flashback)
- Earth (Only in flashback)
  - North America (Only in flashback)
    - United States of America (Only in flashback)
      - New York (Only in flashback)
        Big Apple (Only in flashback)
- Madagascar (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)

Items:

X-Uniforms
Techno-Organic Virus
Hydra plasma generator
Energy matrix channeler and converter
Fiber ionic fibrillator

Vehicles:

Stolen chopper
Stolen motorcycle

Synopsis for "Flashed Before My Eyes"

Sauron gloats about killing Sam. Boom Boom's yelling causes Cable to have a flashback. We're given a glimpse of Cable's past for almost the rest of the issue. He's the leader of a team called Wild Pack. They're invading a Hydra research facility in search of a stolen component. After dispatching the goons, they get inside the lab. Hammer accidentally triggers a fail-safe and Baron von Strucker's image appears everywhere. He threatens to kill them so they quickly retrieve the device and body slide out of there. It turns out that they were working for A.I.M. Later on, the team goes their separate ways. Cable ends up time sliding into the future where he's actually from. He finds out from his computer, Professor, that there's a new possible awakening. The name of the possible High Lord, Sam Guthrie. Cable decides it is his duty to train Cannonball and heads back in time, six months to a year before his Awakening. Back in the present, Sam isn't waking up. Cable wonders if he truly was a High Lord. He vents his anger on Sauron, by blowing him away.

Notes

This issue includes two bonus pin-ups of Cable by Rob Liefeld:

Trivia

It is revealed that Samuel Guthrie is called a "High Lord" and is part of the reason why Cable went into the past to lead the New Mutants. He was told by the "Professor" that he would live until the 24th century.

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