Ladronn’s Cable

I was using www.stashmycomics.com last night – see, www.collectorz.com, that’s what you get when you won’t release a mac version of your comic collecting software and I need to transfer all the info from my PC! -and I came across Ladronn’s Cable run.

I’d forgotten how great a lot of these covers were – Ladronn seems to channel Kirby in places, especially when it comes to the perspective applied to characters jumping with their hands thrown forward.

See?

It’s a shame that, as great as the art was in these books, the stories – by James Robinson and Joe Casey – sometimes didn’t quite measure up. The late 90s were a dark time for a lot of Marvel’s mutant line, and poor old Nathan Summers was no exception.

Even so, for the art alone these books are worth picking up cheap. I don’t think they’ve ever been collected, so back issue bins at cons or ebay may be your best bet – I can’t imagine they go for much over a buck a book these days.

At this point I’m just rambling to break up the pretty pictures a bit, but you probably figured that out already.

But they are pretty, aren’t they?

I seem to recall Ladronn working on an Inhumans mini as well – that’s probably worth tracking down too. Hmm…there’s an idea…

Not sure what Ladronn is up to these days, but he should be doing more mainstream US comics work – if only because that’s probably the only way that I’m going to see his stuff!

Tags: Art, Cable, Marvel

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