Cable & Deadpool was a comic book series by Marvel that ran from May 2004 until April 2008 and, a year later, I got my hands on the scans of the entire series, which consists of fifty issues. It tells the stories of Cable, whose backstory is incredibly confusing but he’s basically Cyclops’ son sent into the future with a techno-organic virus and who came back to save the world (and has messiah parallels), and Deadpool, the merc with a mouth. I have no idea about Cable’s and Deadpool’s stories nor relationship prior to this series, but they know one another to the point of trying to kill one another (at least on Deadpool’s behalf), that much is certain.
Which is why everyone finds it bizarre when Cable and Deadpool suddenly become best friends. Mind you, being swallowed after you’ve melted by a guy who’s in need of your regenerative healing factors because his T-O virus is threatening to consume him does have an effect on your relationship… not that there’s anything wrong with that. Or indeed with what’s behind the cut.
