Cable #78

Cable #78 arrives in 2000 with one of the most viscerally striking images of the series: Cable himself engulfed and ensnared by a writhing mass of metallic techno-organic tendrils, his mouth open in a raw scream as his techno-virus appears to be consuming him from every angle. Cover artist Michael Ryan renders the anguish with remarkable intensity, and the tagline — "Armageddon has passed… but the agony has just begun!" — perfectly frames a hero who has survived catastrophe only to face a suffering all his own. With the story title "I Still Believe I Cannot Be Saved," writer Joe Pruett sets a deeply personal, troubled tone that makes this issue hard to put down unread.