Cable #47

Cable's long-simmering clash with Bastion finally boils over in this October 1997 installment of "Moving Target," part three of a gripping arc brought to life by writer James Robinson and artist Rob Haynes. The cover by Randy Green and Scott Hanna pulls no punches: a determined Cable — in his blue-and-gold X-Men uniform, glowing eye blazing — is seized in Bastion's iron grip, the imposing villain looming over him with multiple robotic hands closing in from the shadows. Tied into the X-Men's "Operation: Zero Tolerance" crossover event, this issue promises the kind of high-stakes, personal confrontation that the cover's bold tagline — "At Last… Face to Face with Bastion!" — has been building toward.