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The following contains major spoilers for Cable: Love & Chrome #2, on sale now from Marvel Comics.
One of the most terrifying threats of the ’90s is back, and it might cost Cable his life.
Cable: Love & Chrome #2 finds the titular hero and his newfound ally and romantic interest, Avery Ryder, taking part in yet another brazen mission to disrupt the malevolent machinations of the Prime Conclave. Unfortunately for them, it isn’t long before their attack on the Conclave’s drug refinery is met with some especially fierce resistance. And, while Cable and Avery’s combined efforts is enough to see the battle through to the end, it is hard to say they come out on top when the former is left reeling once more from the Techno-Organic Virus he believed was at bay.
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Written by DAVID PEPOSE
Art by MIKE HENDERSON
Colors by ARIF PRIANTO
Letters by VC’s JOE SABINO
Design by JAY BOWEN
Main cover art by IAN CHURCHILL & MORRY HOLLOWELL
Variant covers by MARK BROOKS and TONY DANIEL & FRANK D’ARMATA
The son of Scott Summers and Madelyne Pryor, the man who would become Cable was first seen as the newborn Nathaniel Summers in the pages of 1985’s Uncanny X-Men #201 by Chris Claremont and Rick Leonardi. Like Madelyne herself, many of the events of Nathan’s life, including his very being, had been set into motion by none other than Mister Sinister, who hoped to use the child as a living weapon against the ancient Apocalypse. Instead, the infant Nathan was infected with the infamous Techno-Organic Virus by none other than Apocalypse, forcing Scott and Madelyne to send him off into the future in the hands of someone who might be able to find a cure for his condition.
In the years that followed, Nathan was imbued with further tech and cybernetics that, working in concert with his own inherent telekinetic powers, helped to keep the Techno-Organic Virus from progressing any further. He also established a reputation for himself as both a soldier and leader, ultimately cementing his legacy in the future as the fabled Nathan Dayspring before stepping into his more well-known role as Cable. Thanks to his efforts across time in every conceivable direction, Cable has become one of Marvel’s foremost mutant antiheroes across centuries, not to mention numerous different timelines and realities.
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Although the Techno-Organic Virus has been a part of the Marvel Universe for as long as Cable has carried that moniker, it wasn’t properly identified until 1991’s X-Factor #68 by Whilce Portacio, Jim Lee, and Chris Claremont. As it turns out, the Techno-Organic Virus was engineered by the malevolent artificial intelligence known as the Phalanx. When the Phalanx encounter a world they determine is intelligent, they harvest its knowledge by quite literally consuming it and transforming it into a part of Phalanx’s greater whole. When they encounter a world they believe to be worthless, the Phalanx release the Techno-Organic Virus, which infects and transforms all life until it can take on its final form and call in the world’s ultimate destruction.
Cable: Love & Chrome #2 is available now from Marvel Comics.
Source: Marvel Comics
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