Cable #56

Cable looms over a shadowy, silhouetted figure from a dramatic overhead angle, his techno-organic arm blazing with light and X-Men insignia scattered across the rubble-strewn scene — it's an arresting composition by cover penciler José Ladrönn and inker Juan Vlasco that makes the most of 1998 Marvel's appetite for larger-than-life confrontation. The tagline "An Eye for an Eye!" promises the kind of hard-edged tension that writer Joe Casey and artist Ryan Benjamin bring to "Blood Rite." Fans of Cable's blend of muscle, machinery, and mutant drama will find plenty to draw them in here.