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Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld has been trying to tell his definitive Cable story for the past 35 years, but he and Marvel keep breaking up [Marvel Matters]
Rob Liefeld broke into the mainstream with Cable - but he's never been able to tell the solo story burning in his brain for the past 35 years. He's gotten close, though, twice... then it all falls down.
36 years ago, Marvel Comics asked a 22-year-old artist to create a new leader for a flagging X-Men spin-off team. Although he wasn't the writer, he created a weathered cyborg soldier from the future carrying a secret from the past named Cable, with writer Louise Simonson. Cable quickly became one of the key pillars in the early '90s X-Men glow-up and one of the quickest comics-to-adaptation transitions, as within two years, he was a key part of X-Men: The Animated Series. And while he became more well-known for his other major Marvel creation in Deadpool, Liefeld has carried a Cable story in his head since his creation, intended to be the definitive Cable story.
In this week's Marvel Matters, I dive into the complicated decades-long history of Cable's unpublished story as told by Rob Liefeld.
In 2000, Rob Liefeld
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