jephyork wrote:
Riftt, I just happened to page through Messiah CompleX last night, and I immediately picked up on the answer to this question of yours:


The mansion has just been decimated by sentinels who wolverine and cyclops find out were piloted by people infected with nano-sentinels. All of a sudden out of the blue, Wolverine says "you really think Cable'd go that far?" Wha-wha-whaat? Since when were they talking about Cable?

Just before the Sentinels attack, Nightcrawler telepathically contacts Emma -- he's just fled from a firefight with the Marauders, where he and Wolverine have learned that they DON'T have the baby. Cable has her. He was thought dead for months -- but he's the one who killed all the Marauders in Alaska and stole the baby from the hospital. And just as Emma tells Cyclops, and Cyclops wonders why Cable didn't get in touch with them and tell them he was alive -- as he's wondering why Cable didn't come to them with the baby, and what Cable even wants with her anyway -- the Sentinels attack the mansion.


When was Cable even mentioned in this or prior issues?

He's actually seen on-panel in the cliffhanger climax of the previous issue, holding the baby. It's a big dramatic reveal.

I can't believe you read this twice and didn't catch this. It's fairly blatant.

-Jeph!
Yes, I got it jumbled around in my head a bit in terms of when cable pops up. He is awol for 5 issues until the last panel of #5 and then of course he is on the cover of #6. Still, I dont think anything you point out (the info that Cable fought the marauders for the baby...the exact same thing the x-men were going to do!) strengthens reasonable culpability against Cable to justify Scott's actions any more.