Cable #21 - Marvel

First of all . . you have to know how Cable and Hope get back to Earth. At the end of the last issue, they had crawled into some terraforming life-pods, and were headed back towards Earth. Last issue . . but 2 years ago. Bishop had to make a deal with the Brood Queen and traveled inside one of their space-whales . . the Acanti. Anyways, long story short . . they make it back to Earth, but . . shortly before doing so the Acanti catch up with them and swallow them. Cable hits Bishop with a psychic attack, which gets them spit out, but . . it also disrupts their landing trajectory. So they have to crash. But . . so does the Acanti and Bishop. Hope activates the terraforming pods, hoping for food, but . . 'Terraforming sequence to begin shortly. First wheat crop available in . . calculating . . approximately 7.9 years.' However, she did start the process so . . hopefully the future of the Earth is back on track. But the important events are when Hope and Bishop fight. Bishop takes out Cable first, and then goes after Hope. But in her adrenaline frenzy her powers begin to activate. She hits Bishop with a psychic blast, and then she's ready to kill him. But Cable, not completely down for the count, stops her. He uses the unconscious Bishop's own technology to fix his time traveling circuits. Hope wants to go back to see the X-Men. She wants to be part of the team. So Cable takes her back. But . . they land in New Amsterdam, circa 1614. And they don't know it, but . . Cable arrives shortly after them. I thought the story this issue made the most progress of probably the last 6 issues. They're finally back on Earth. They're close to being home. They just arrived about 400 years to early. I'm glad Duane Swierczynski moved the story forward. I was starting to get a little frustrated. Plus now, hopefully we'll see Hope in action. I do have a question though . . how come we've never seen, or even been concerned as to who Hope's parents are? We know she was born in Alaska, and . . there's a lot of Summers there, so . . maybe it's just a coincidence? I don't know if it's important or not. I'm just putting it out there. This issue is put together in 3 different chapters with as many artists. Humberto Ramos, Carlos Cuerva, Ian Medina, Robert Campanella and Paul Gulacy all provide art for this issue. Also . . that's a great cover by Marko Djurdjevic. Anyways . . hopefully the progress will continue.